The last thing I ever wanted to do in school was to learn about things that I believed were useless to me. I struggled to understand the importance of knowing phonics, and learning the difference between a noun and a verb. The challenge of writing a 3 page paper seemed overwhelming to me. How would knowing history, be a key to better serving God and growing in my role in society. In my mind, these things were nothing but things that would enable me to win trivia contests. Yet, little did I realize that the more I understood the world around me the better I would understand the Word of God. A big part of understnding God’s truth is understanding what He has said. I came to realize that our command of the language arts and sytax is critical to our understnding the Word of God. God has given us His Word in written form, and the better our understanding of written language the greater our ability to come to understand what He has given us to know. Our ability to write a paper, and put words together into coherent thoughts have taught me that God has given me instruction … READ MORE

In Genesis 11:6 god recognizes the value and danger of learning, when He came down from heaven as the people were building the tower of Babel. Our ability to think through issues and adapt our environment is a unique quality for mankind. Animals adapt to their environment, making changes in how they live based on what is going on around them. Mankind is the only created being, who learns and builds upon that knowledge to change their environment, to adapt to himself. That learning controls the environment to make it fit for man, rather than man simply adapting to his environment. God created us to think and be creative, and then has provided us with the initiative to learn and grow. This educational process is not something that is limited to our time at school, it is a process that we will continue through our lives and into eternity according to John 17:3. Today we have many modern conveniences and devices, that many of us who are older continue to attempt to learn about. The knowledge to build these technologies are all God given. There is no truth, that has not been designed and given by God. It is essential … READ MORE

It took me a long time in my education process to recognize the importance of the statement, “All truth is God’s truth.” Even in College, I struggled to appreciate the importance of subjects like Science, Writing, Spelling, English, Social Studies, to name a few. dMy focus was on knowing the Bible and what God said in the Scriptures. However, I learned over time and education, that everything that we learn, from the splitting of the atom, to the complexities of recipes, are all things that are contained in the realm of God’s truth. Romans 1:20 tells us that “For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse. Seeing the consistency of the world is an important part of our understanding of who God is. It is essential for us to see that there are things that never change so that as we come to the Word of God, we can understand the consistency of God and the power of His truths. We can deny that there are absolutes, but the reality is that there are absolutes … READ MORE