THE FOUNDERS' WORLDVIEW
AUTHORITY AND EDUCATION
MADE IN GOD'S IMAGE
Man is not an animal! Today, with the theory of evolution having completed its work, that statement is radical to those of us who are in or have completed a public school education. No authority exists for teaching that man is an animal or that man came into being by a process of evolution. Remember, there is no authority unless it comes from the Creator (Rom. 13:1).
In accordance with the authority of the laws of nature and nature's God, we read that (1) man is created, and (2) he is created in the image of God (Gen. 1:27; 5:1-2). Since God does not change (Mal. 3:6) and Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever (Heb. 13:8), evolution is just a theory without substance. Furthermore, the Founding Fathers recognized the unalienable rights granted by the Creator and flowing from the Creation event in each individual's life. No other nation can make such a claim.
God is Spirit, and we are to worship Him in spirit and in truth (John 4:24) for our spirit is the lamp of the Lord searching the innermost parts of our beings (Prov. 20:27). God is Spirit; man, created in His image, is spirit. On the other hand, an animal is flesh and not spirit (Isa. 31:3) and man has dominion over all animals (Gen. 1:28-30). Yet, public education teaches that, because man has mammary glands, he is an animal and classified as a mammal. And we, like sheep, have gone astray because no one has taught us any differently.
The Founders of our nation were not fooled by such nonsense. They established the United States of America on a foundation of creation principles, not evolutionary principles. Man has a Creator and is not self-existing as all public education would have us believe.
Why are these points so significant? Because our liberty and freewill, which depend on the concept of creation, are at stake! A nation founded on creation principles presupposes the existence of a Creator who grants life and liberty. A nation based on the theory of evolution considers the State as the supreme legal agency having the ultimate authority to determine if and when life should begin and end. This is the primary reason why our nation is overseeing the annual killing of 1.6 million babies in the womb and the rise of suicide and euthanasia (killing of the sick and infirm) among our young and old.
Meanwhile, back at the public school, change agents (public education's term for a teacher) are working to capture the minds of our children. The educational establishment understands the law of nature that as a man thinks within himself, so is he (Prov. 23:7). If a human being can be taught to think he or she is an animal, then that is precisely how that person will operate in life and respond to the appropriate stimulus controlled by the power elite.
How is this being done in our public schools? Three avenues are being used; namely, (1) the philosophy of education, (2) the method of teaching, and (3) the content of the subject matter. The entire philosophy of public education is child-centered. Consequently, in all public school education, K-12, the official policy is the "humanizing" of education. Thus, all public education begins with the child. "The child's own instincts and powers," John Dewey wrote in 1897, "furnish the material and give the starting point for all education." This idea is the centerpiece for all education in every public school classroom today.
When the child is the center of the educational process, the philosophy of education is based on power without authority. Education with authority directs the child's mind to gaining knowledge of the created order and developing the ability to make decisions on the basis of objective facts within that order. Decision-making is based on fixed, uniform and universal principles which the children are to learn and obey. Here, virtue prevails.
With the child as the focal point of education without authority, the child's pleasure and survival become the basis for decision-making. Now, self-centeredness rules and virtue disappears. The only answer is to restore those principles which will return virtue to our nation.
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