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Lacerating an artery and allowing certain amounts of
blood to escape, a person could recover from many
diseases. Often, this blood-letting so weakened the
Balance academics
with cultural activities;
learn to appreciate
the best the arts have to offer.
person that he (or she) died all the faster.
Today' s educational system suffers similarly
because it is not based on an understanding of the
purpose of human life. Many educators regard "the
purpose of human life as mere
survival.
Yet it is
FAR
more than survival. Avoiding nuclear
obliteration is the awesome
prob/em
facing man
today, but man's purpose for being here is far more
profound.
The answer to this profound problem is
spiritual
in nature-yet most have no understanding that even
the social and moral problems besetting
the world today are
also
spiritual in
origin.
Man, through his five senses, can only
Focus on learning
how
to
live, as well as how to make
a living.
·
April 1982
comprehend the physical and materialistic! He (and
we mean the traditional pronoun to include the
female gender) cannot discover, of and by himself,
things spiritual. Therefore,
man is unable to so/ve
his deeper problems- he
is cut off from true
spiritual knowledge-the sorely neglected basis of
education that would lead to real success!
Now-grasp this- there is only one divine source
of spiritual knowledge. It is knowledge that has been
revea/ed.
Thís source is none other tban the Holy
Bible!
Cause of Unhappiness, Turmoil
The tragic basic premise that locks men and women
Stay with the
basics;
keep your
educational
"feet"
firmly planted.
in the way of despair, of suffering and war is tbe
presupposition that tbe Bible is
not
truly
rational-that it is not to be thoroughly
understood.
No supposition could be more false!
In intellectual vanity, educated men and women
generally reject botb God and bis revelation to man
of essential knowledge one could not otherwise find
out. Most reject tbe autbority of God's government
over tbeir personal lives and instead substitute a
false dogma called evolution.
Evolution- an explanation of a creation without a
Creator-permeates
al/
of man's acquired
knowledge.
lt
taints bis speculations on tbe origin of
tbe universe, bis educational philosophies, concepts
of law-and much more!
By rejecting the
source
of revealed knowledge, tbe
Holy Bible, man
guarantees
tragedy, despair,
unbappiness. By basing his educational system on a
false premise, he automatically flaws tbe entire
system. Top to bottom!
Can man know that God exists? " ... what may
be known about God is
p/ain.
...
For since tbe
creation of the world God's invisible qualities- his
eterna! power and divine nature-have
been clearly
seen,
being understood from wbat has been made
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