Propositions Pertaining to the Education of Christian Children

God speaks to every area of our lives¹.

Education² is a religious³ activity, and therefore cannot be "neutral".

Because all facts are God-created facts, the education of Christian children should be centered around God.

The knowledge of God's revelation of himself to man (the Bible) is the basis for all other knowledge, and wisdom is not attainable apart from it.

Schools that are funded by the government are not controlled by the public but by professional educators and bureaucrats, and therefore are properly called government schools, not public schools.

The philosophy manifested in government education today cannot be traced to any biblical principle, but closely parallels the tenets expounded in Humanist Manifesto I and II, both self-consciously man-centered statements of dogma.

Education in the government schools of our day is overtly founded upon these humanistic dogma, for this was the intent of the founders of modern education, many of them signers of the humanist manifesto, and is therefore an establishment of government religion.

The methods and philosophies of state educators, because they are unbiblical and anti-God, confound and increase the very problems they seek to resolve.

The education of children is a responsibility directly delegated to parents by God, and which may be delegated by Christians parents to those best suited to the task of Christian education.

It is immoral for one person or group of people to coerce other people to pay for the education of their children.

The average over-worked, over-taxed Christian parent does not have the knowledge, time, or resources to ably equip young Christians to transform a pagan culture (Modern Western Culture). Most of us, having been educated in the government schools, were robbed of the tools to transform culture.

One to three hours of bible study per week is not enough to ably equip young Christians to transform a pagan culture.

Education, like all other activities of Christian life, should glorify and honor God.

1."The most important [commandment],” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength." Mark 12:29-30

2. education: the process of training and developing the knowledge, skill, mind, character, etc., especially by formal schooling; teaching; training. Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged, Second Edition (1960)

Consider also:

Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates. Deut. 6:4-9

3. religion: (a) any specific system of belief, worship, conduct, etc., often involving a code of ethics and a philosophy; as the Christian religion, the Buddhist religion, etc., (b) loosely, any system of beliefs, practices, ethical values, etc. resembling, suggestive of, or likened to such a system; as, humanism is his religion. Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged, Second Edition (1960)

Consider also this statement from Humanist Manifesto I, 1933:

"There is great danger of a final, and we believe fatal, identification of the word religion with doctrines and methods which have lost their significance and which are powerless to solve the problem of human living in the Twentieth Century. Religions have always been means for realizing the highest values of life. Their end has been accomplished through the interpretation of the total environing situation (theology or world view), the sense of values resulting there from (goal or ideal), and the technique (cult), established for realizing the satisfactory life. A change in any of these factors results in alteration of the outward forms of religion. This fact explains the changefulness of religions through the centuries. But through all changes religion itself remains constant in its quest for abiding values, an inseparable feature of human life."