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Educated Christians
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| Early in the
settlement of North America by the Puritans colleges were established
for seminary training of pastors. Sadly, Christians were seeking men of
intellectual achievement as ones best suited to lead them. Christians
were not supposed to be led, but rather helped to mature themselves
(Eph 4:11-13). A primary problem with intellectualizing Christianity is that conduct and character are often lost as vanity and pride can lead one into ever increasingly abstract concepts and constructs until almost all connection to the real world is lost (1Cor 8:1). One might see, using German rationalism as an example, how this often leads to atheism (Rom 1:22).. One can observe first year seminary students eager to delve into the foundations of their denomination only to emerge in four years as sort of franchise defenders whose job is seen as enforcing conformity. Having themselves been “cheated” out of a deeper and growing faith, they often impose this stranglehold on the churches they will administer. The church committees that hire them will insist that they maintain a static functioning. As new to the pastorate, these seminary graduates often will give sermons in the same mold as the lectures they heard for four years. In counsel to people with real problems the advice to be good, try harder, and trust in God may placate, but often seem less than useful. Those of the congregation who have had college education may not even be aware of an increased sense of superiority and the problems that vanity can bring. In addition, the poisonous values inculcated in college can infect an entire life. These can range from the advocacy of perversion to subtle worldly values of prosperity and position. Often those who are the most infected with worldly views will insist on leadership positions within a church. Satan has gone to a lot of work to get people to see “education” as not only desirable, but to reflexively give place and preference to those so accomplished. That this is the gateway to positions of prominence in the world should ring alarm bells for any Christian family thinking of sending their children to college. Sadly, it is not only college that is detrimental to faith. The educational process is detrimental at every level. Being presented with pieces of data to retain long enough to pass a test is not the same thing as learning. Being shaped to take in whatever is heard as truth is detrimental to the survival skills one needs to navigate the world of deceptions in which we live. Spoon fed data can lead one to neglect the development of investigative skills to pursue ones interest or questions. There are additinal reasons that many Christian families choose to homeschool their children. Not all who teach are capable, love your children as much as you, or are free from worldly contamination. Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned: From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling; Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm. - 1 Timothy 1:5-7 |
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