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A
Christian is unlike anyone else in the world. A Christian
has committed himself to follow Christ, to think like Christ, to
have Christ living in him.
Originally
the United States public schools were pro-Christian.
The first public schools were begun in Massachusetts to teach
children to read, so they could read the Bible.
Gradually
control of the schools shifted from local school boards -- local
folks -- to the courts, which are controlled by a relatively few
lawyers. When this happened, the schools shifted from being
Christian to being non-Christian. Evolution, the teaching
that creation does not have a creator, was introduced into the
schools. Then, based upon the premise that the God of the
Bible is not the Creator, He was expelled from school
altogether. He was not allowed in the textbooks, and
prayers to Him were forbidden.
Today this process is
continuing to the next step. Now the big government schools
are not just non-Christian. They are anti-Christian.
They purposely teach students values -- such as homosexuality --
which are diametrically opposed to the teachings of the
Bible.
The government schools are actually filled with
religious teaching. If I believe in the God of the Bible,
that is my religious belief. If you do not believe in the
God of the Bible, that is your religious belief. They are
both religious beliefs, one just as much as the other. The
public schools are filled with the religious teaching that the
God of the Bible is not God. If He is not God, that
is right. If He is God, that is wrong.
Very
wrong.
If the God of the Bible is not Creator, if He does
not enforce a living law which blesses good and punishes evil,
then when the public schools stopped teaching Christian morality,
there should have been no change in the schools. If God
wasn’t God, it wouldn’t have changed anything when He
was kicked out.
What actually happened?
A half
century ago teachers said their biggest problems were chewing
gum, running in the halls, and not raising the hand to ask to go
to the bathroom. Today they list the biggest problems as
drugs, violence, pregnancy and suicide. What has
happened to the public schools since they eliminated God proves
that the God of the Bible is God. They expelled Him. He
flunked them.
So what is a Christian parent to do?
A
Christian is unlike anyone else in the world. A Christian
has committed himself to follow Christ, to think like Christ, to
have Christ living in him.
Then what would Christ
do?
Would Christ allow His children to be taught that His
Father is not Creator? Would Christ allow His children to
be in a school where they cannot read about His Father in the
Bible? Would Christ allow His children in a school which is
forbidden to pray to His Father? Would Christ allow His
children to be taught that sodomy is good?
No.
Neither
will we allow that.
We are Christians. We home
school. There is no place in our schools where God and
Christ are not allowed. To the contrary, our school days,
our family, our whole life is based on them.
If the
God of the Bible is Creator, if He does enforce a living law
which blesses good and punishes evil, then Christian home schools
should be blessed bountifully.
They
are. We have known hundreds of Christian home school
families, everything from Pentecostal to Catholic, Mormon to
Messianic. All of these have been greatly blessed in their
children and their families because they chose to home school.
The
God of the Bible is Creator, and our Christian home schools are
blessed bountifully. We encourage all Christian parents to
join in Christian home schooling and join in these blessings.
Comparing
the top public school problems in 1940 vs. today:
1940
Today 1.
talking out of turn...............................drug abuse 2.
chewing gum.....................................alcohol abuse 3.
making noise.....................................pregnancy 4.
running in the halls..............................suicide 5.
getting out of line................................rape 6.
improper clothing.................................robbery 7.
not putting paper in wastebasket............assault
It
is reported that 21% of all public secondary students avoid using
the school restrooms out of fear of being harmed or intimidated.
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