Last night was Friday Night Meeting (church) at the base, and our speaker was the same speaker that we had in classes this week. He was great, really challenged and made us think. He's very intelligent and is determined to change education and the worldviews that are being taught in school. It was actually shocking some of the things that are being taught in Christian schools but anyhow these are some note I took that I thought were really interesting. Hope you enjoy it!
*80% of all Christians are eduated in non-Christian universities
* between 30% - 50% lose their Faith while in university
Colossians 2:8-10 "See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ. For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and you have been given fullness in Christ, who is the head over every power and authority."
*Christians need to understans where world view comes from before getting overwhelmed and devoured.
* UNI = to unify VERSITAS = truth
----- brought together for Christian purpses (first university was created in Italy)
----- all aspects of educations - law philospy, psych, sociology, history, maths, biology, economics, politics were all taught with God being the centre of it. God = all truth - was the basis of education in the first universities.
----- once they take God out of the centre it all becomes human opinions.. the professors opinion - which means they take out truth.
----- philophy used to be theology. now philosphy aims to prove there is no God.
* between 30% - 50% lose their Faith while in university
Colossians 2:8-10 "See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ. For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and you have been given fullness in Christ, who is the head over every power and authority."
*Christians need to understans where world view comes from before getting overwhelmed and devoured.
* UNI = to unify VERSITAS = truth
----- brought together for Christian purpses (first university was created in Italy)
----- all aspects of educations - law philospy, psych, sociology, history, maths, biology, economics, politics were all taught with God being the centre of it. God = all truth - was the basis of education in the first universities.
----- once they take God out of the centre it all becomes human opinions.. the professors opinion - which means they take out truth.
----- philophy used to be theology. now philosphy aims to prove there is no God.
4 OBJECTIVES OF BIBLICAL EDUCATION
#1 Promote Critical Thinking
----- teach importance of the mind & critical thinking.
----- recognize assumptions
----- all humans live by faith either in reason (human conclusions or in revelation (biblical propositions)
#2 Cultivate a Hunger For Truth
----- keep asking why? how do you know? what proof do you have?
#3 Demolish "Fortresses"
----- 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 "For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ."
----- you can't grow to love Christ by being taught evolution and reading books of flat out lies, so focus on the truth .. focus on the Bible it is the book of truth and the worldview we have should be entirely focussed on reality - on the truth
-----scientism -- scientific language used to sound like truth (even though human opinion)
ie - the claim of genetic determinism (you're born gay) (the APA (American Psychological Association) in 1998 started the argument that your are born gay by saying they thought there was a link genetically but in 2009 they put out another article that completely detroyed it saying that there is no gene that will make you gay proving themselves wrong that you aren't born gay.. you're not born with a passion you learn about it.. and what scared some of us was that they are trying to say - you're born a murderer or a pedofile - so this has killed those ideas though some still live by it.)
----- if everything is genetic then we are robots/machines with no free will = no God.
- climate change is man made - lie? global warm isn't actually happening. polar icecaps have actually been growing and expanding in the summer season between i think its 2007 ad 2008.
----- medievel warm period then the "little ice age" and now we are warming up again. theres no connection between CO2 levels and warming its between the sun and the earth not the CO2 and the earth (we looked at graphs CO2 and temp .. weak AS correlation)
----- you throw out Genesis and you throw out Jesus Christ. If Genesis was a lie (like evolutionists may claim) then why in the world didn't Jesus say "oh btw guys the hebrews messed a while ago.. they were just really confused" .. becuase its true thats why.
----- more non christians are dropping the idea of evolution while christians are jumping into it.
Naturalism - changing definitions of marriage. everything has to change because everything evolves so we must make new laws to change our world. stupid.
Relativism (law) no absolutes except what they say.. also stupid.
#4 Teach comprehensive Biblical World View
----- need to learn to think so we can cancel out all the lies that create our world view.
----- God is SOVEREIGN over ALL life (Psalm 24:1)
----- God has PURPOSES in history - discipling natiomns (Matthew 28:28-20)
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