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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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