Our daily journey on 16th of January, 2009
A balanced education:
God gave us two important books: the "book" of His works, the material universe (the "general revelation"), and the book of His words, the Bible (the "special revelation").
Both are critical to a balanced education. The cosmos tells us about His creativity, His eternal power, His superiority over all things (His "divine nature" Romans 1: 20). The Bible teaches us the purpose of creation, how to live in it, and how to spend eternity in a loving relationship with God.
Knowledge is everything we've come to understand about the universe from all the sources of truth available to us (the Bible, the creation, relationships, experiences). Ethics relates to what we understand to be moral, good, and right. An equation can help us visualize this basic biblical wordlview:
Knowledge + Ethics = Behavior
The Bible is our main source of understanding about ethics, and the origin and purpose of the creation. Our behaviour flows out of what we know to be true, moral, good and right.
The secular undrestanding, of course, doesnt acknowledge the Bible as a source of truth. Many unbelievers read from only one book: the natural world, ignoring God's word and its instruction.
Unbelieving educators justify sexual promiscuity, even rape, as normal sexual behavior and the killing of imperfect or "excess" infants or the elderly as beneficial to the progress of humanity. That's the result of seriously unbalanced education.
If we dont pay careful attention to both of God's books, we end up on teeter-totter as a single rider!
-Dean Ohlman-
Proverbs 2: 6
For the Lord grants wisdom! From His mouth come knowledge and understanding
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