Understanding critical thinking is so important to apologetics. What are some resources y'all have found to improve your critical thinking skills?

Does Sola Scriptura apply to pre-written text somehow? If so how, if not, how were early Christians "Saved" if they didn't have the "Canonical" text as an authority on the word of God? How do we know our own interpretation of scripture isn't corrupted? Rather, if 2 peoples interpretations disagree how do we know which person is misunderstanding the meaning of the text? Curious if/why "appealing to the holy spirit" is or is not a valid response. EG: we can't just say "God made me King" any more as that's obviously false. In the same manor we can't say, "the holy spirit told me so" as a justification for an incorrect interpretation of scripture, right?

I’m curious how others here approach apologetics. I lean heavily presuppositional, but I’ve found myself occasionally drawing from classical or evidential methods depending on the context. For those of you familiar with the different approaches, what’s your primary method—and what has shaped that preference?

So in my head Jesus === God === Holy Spirit... The only reason humans in 3 dimensions perceive this in a "triune" fashion is for the same reason we could poke our finger through a 2d world and they'd see magic, draw ourselves in their reality and they'd see "us" but not in our full 3d nature. But someone mentioned that's "partialism"? Vs the water analogy being modalism... A question that came to my mind was about whether or not Jesus lived "forever" (the same way God is/does/has) like people talk about how Moses saw the burning bush and it was Jesus, or there's a few other sort of unnamed characters in the OT stories that we could say are Jesus but we won't really know till we die. If Jesus is eternal then it makes sense he's a projection of a 4d (or any higher dimension) God into our 3d reality... Interesting not sure if/how relevant to my question/rhetoric this is? https://youtube.com/shorts/XoGU4_o18sU?si=4xKXFyM5TKam2Ygi I'm less intrigued / distracted by other religions because if the Bible is truth then God is Logic, and if God reveals himself to us then we CAN understand God in so much as he's revealed himself to us. Not that we can ever become God but that he's not unintelligible to us. Esp in that we are created in his image we should have some capacity that is like God (as we are to the animals) but we just don't know everything (or really much of anything in the grand scheme) 😅

If option C, then what the heck is going on during Sunday service? Why does THAT (however it's performed) get the elevated title of Worship? And if option B, then shouldn't we all be required or pressured by everyone around us to participate? I'm so tired of looking around and seeing all the Men who "don't/can't sing" sit/stand with their arms crossed while the Women who made them show up demonstrate their vibratos for the poor unseeming souls sitting in front of them 😵‍💫 Why can't we properly define either what PROPER worship looks like or stop calling whatever it is we do on Sunday what it is (a concert). Even just a concert for Jesus. Lets go to the CCM show this Sunday. Not, "let's all lift our hands in Worship"? Or someone please share with me what I MUST be misunderstanding.