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of self-discipline and character in the true spiritual values.
God intended man to become EDUCATED. We never glorify God
by ignorance, nor by neglecting to train and educate the mind!
What is the principle thing that elevates a man above a dumb
animal? It is his MIND! That mind, then, to glorify God and
fulfill His purpose, ought to be developed, used, rightly
cultivated and trained.
Yet, today, what do we find? Most highly EDUCATED people
reject God's Truth, spurn salvation, regard Christianity as an
ignorant superstition. And most of those who will surrender to
God, accept Christ and seek salvation today are comparatively
UNEDUCATED, or have limited education! It's a FACT that most
people today who claim a real born-again salvation have not been
educated, or trained and developed their minds, as much as the
average intellectual skeptic or scientist who through his
"scientific knowledge" and mind training has come to believe there
is no God!
WHY SHOULD THIS BE? It should be just the reverse!
The true ANSWER is that Satan set out, 6,000 years ago, to
deceive the whole world. Satan has led man in a direction OPPOSITE
from the true way of God. Satan has swayed mankind into setting up
an organized, babylonish civilization. In its every phase, this
civilization runs OPPOSITE to the right and true laws of God. It
is the spirit of COMPLETION, ORGANIZED.
Now, this whole worldly civilization is BASED on a SYSTEM
of FALSE EDUCATION! This paganized society that is THIS WORLD
takes our children, from ages of 5 to 7, and begin to educate and
train their MINDS, in the direction of SATAN'S philosophy, which
is the way of materialism, of selfishness, greed, vanity, trust
in man, ignoring God. The system of education is COMPLETED in
the institutions of higher learning--the colleges and universities.
And there, surveys show that 95% of freshmen entering college
still believe there is a God;--but, four years later on graduation,
95% of these same students have become firmly convinced there is no
God!
Now what is the BASIS, the FOUNDATION, of true education?
We read the answer in the 111th Psalm: "The fear of the
ETERNAL is THE BEGINNING of wisdom; a GOOD UNDERSTANDING have all
they that do His commandments." Jesus said: "Ye shall know the
TRUTH, and the TRUTH shall make you FREE." "Ye shall KNOW," He
said. Knowing is knowledge--education. But error makes none free.
This world's education teaches error. This error enslaves the
human race, in poverty, inequality, fear, wretchedness, suffering,
discontent, unhappiness. It is KNOWING---that is, EDUCATION in,
the TRUTH that makes us free---leads to happiness, prosperity, the
abundant and full life, JOY! And what is TRUTH? "THY WORD,"
answered Jesus, "is TRUTH." The Word is the Bible.
The very FOUNDATION of true education, then, is the BIBLE.