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  The lecturer states she “would contend that only a believer is able to truly love wisdom as God created us to love.” Do you agree or disagree? Explain.

  Posted by info on 05/03/2021 at 13:56

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  Caylie Allen

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  05/12/2025 at 17:45

  I absolutely agree. Not only does true love itself come from God, and therefore cannot truly exist apart from Him, but from Him is birthed all wisdom. An unbeliever cannot fully comprehend the wisdom that is granted us from the Holy Spirit, and they certainly cannot desire Godly, true wisdom in the way someone with the Spirit does. With no true purpose to grow in wisdom other than personal gain, an unbeliever has no reason to love it. Believers, however, desire and love wisdom for the purpose of becoming more like Christ and knowing the Father better.

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  Kristina Rizzo

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  05/04/2025 at 15:02

  I had written down this very point in my notes as something to contemplate.

  “But the Scriptures make so clear to us that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom—so the actual word philosophy. How can I love philosophy if I don’t even acknowledge God in the whole equation of philosophy? I would be one that would contend that only a believer is able to truly love wisdom as God created us to love.”

  I think of the things in my life that I love… I love my family, my husband, and things of less consequence such as chocolate or steamed dumplings. I say that I love these people or things because I have experienced them and come to appreciate them (to put it plainly). I can study the durian fruit and know all there is to know, but unless I have tasted it for myself, I cannot be an expert on it. I can never say that I love something that I have not experienced for myself. If the fear of the Lord is wisdom, and I lack that, then I cannot love wisdom without first loving the Lord.
  

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  Stephen Royall

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  04/22/2025 at 11:43

  Yes I agree. We are told in 1 John 4:7 that love comes from God and only those who truly know God will know love as verse states, “Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.” The Bible presents wisdom as a divine gift from God James 1:5 and that true wisdom begins with a divine holy reverence and deep respect for God Proverbs 9:10. Therefore, those who love God and are His Disciples will certainly truly love and seek out His Wisdom!

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  Nicole Hurt

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  03/31/2025 at 10:55

  Yes, I agree fully. God is the true source of wisdom. If you think of it like beams of light from a ray of sun, an unbeliever will have some of that light shed upon them due to common grace, but they will never fully behold the sun in all of its brilliance and glory unless the accept it as the true source of light. Fear of the Lord is the beginning of the wisdom. If you do not fear the Lord, then you do not have the beginning of true wisdom.

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    Linda Stewart

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    04/22/2025 at 13:47

    Yes I agree fully, we have to trust in the Lord for all He does for us. For God so loved the world , that he gave his only begotten Son, that who ever so believe that in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not His Son into the world through him might be saved.

    God is loved and we must believe in Him and trust him and obey by Him and his commandments at all time.

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  Sheila Hill

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  03/23/2025 at 09:26

  I agree because if someone does not believe that the Word of God is truth and that it is a guide for a Christian’s life, then whatever they teach will be tainted because it is from their reasoning, not from the truth of God’s Word. There is no wisdom without God and his Word so you cannot give wisdom if you don’t know God or his Word.

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  What do you hope to gain from this course? In what specific areas do you hope to grow as a Christian educator?

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  Kristina Rizzo

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  05/04/2025 at 15:04

  To be honest, I am not sure what to expect from this course! I know that I will walk away as a better educator, and better equipped to lead my students.

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  Caroline Christopherson

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  04/13/2025 at 00:06

  I am obviously taking this course as a requirement for continuing to teach in a Christian school, but I hope to gain insight and wisdom from an experienced and godly woman as she offers these lectures and shares what it truly means to have a Christian philosophy of education and a true biblical worldview. I am grateful for all the faithful Christian educators who have sacrificed their lives in classrooms all over the world to pass on God’s Word and His love to the next generation. Through this course I hope to grow to be a more passionate educator, a faithful and dedicated student of the Bible, and a willing servant whose main goal is to reach young people for Christ, no matter what subject matter I teach. I was already encouraged to hear the brief example of our lecturer remembering not math lessons from math class, but the overall influence of a Christian role model. When I grow discouraged at the seeming lack of understanding or focus in my students, I can be encouraged that God can still reach them through my lifestyle and personal modeling of what it means to follow Christ.

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  Nicole Hurt

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  03/31/2025 at 10:57

  I hope to gain some practical knowledge that I can use to infuse my classroom with more biblical integration. I also hope to come away inspired in the calling that the Lord has for me.

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  Sheila Hill

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  03/23/2025 at 09:30

  I know that God‘s word is truth, and I know that it is pertinent for us to know his word in order for us to teach effectively. I hope to gain a different knowledge of how to Word so that it is Simple enough for students to understand, but also that it would leave an impact that would go with them throughout their life, causing them to return always to the truth of God‘s word.

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  Elizabeth Haynes

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  03/21/2025 at 12:28

  I would like to have a more fluent understanding of incorporating the Bible into every day lessons. Sometimes it comes very easily, I would like to build up my skills for when it is not as naturally incorporated.

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  Why is it imperative that Christian educators have a Christian philosophy of education?

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  Kristina Rizzo

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  05/04/2025 at 15:08

  I believe it is important that we have a Christian philosophy of education for several reasons. For one, if we love the Lord and are seeking after Him, then it should be a natural overflow into our work and into our students. Additionally, I work at a Christian school so the expectation is that I am to apply a Christian philosophy of education into my students and make sure I am not “dropping the ball” as the lecturer stated.

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  Caroline Christopherson

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  04/13/2025 at 00:10

  Since God is our Creator, everything we say and do is wrapped up in His world. He works in us and through us, and therefore every aspect of our lives as educators is touched by His hand. Whether we are giving a lecture in an English class (communicating through language gifted to us by God), interacting with students at lunch (forming a community and modeling a love for others), or administering discipline in the school office (training up a child in the way he or she should go), we are working to model godly behavior for the next generation. Having a Christian philosophy of education means to operate from a biblical worldview. It should not be one small facet of our job, but the very reason for what we do.

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  Nicole Hurt

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  03/31/2025 at 11:00

  Christian schools exist in order to partner with families in truly transferring the ways of the Lord to a younger generation. We should not simply be a reiteration of the public school system. We should not be the place where families go for more selective class sizes and population. We should be declaring God’s goodness and His ways to all of our students, at all times. In order to do this, we must understand, value, and be driven by a Christian philosophy of education.

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  Sheila Hill

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  03/23/2025 at 09:36

  Without a Christian philosophy of education, a teacher will not be able to instruct according to the word of God. They will be relying on what they think or what they feel is right or true, which does not matter because the word of God is what it will take to impart wisdom And truth into our students. If we do not have a Christian philosophy of education then all we have is a self philosophy what we think how we feel, and that is not according to the word of God. So I believe it to be of utmost importance for a Christian teacher to have a Christian philosophy so that they are not teaching out of their own hurt pain wounds of the past, but the teaching, according to the truth of the word of God.

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  Elizabeth Haynes

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  03/21/2025 at 12:27

  We have to know why we are teaching where we are. As the lecturer stated, teaching in Christian education is not just for safety. We have to have the foundation to teach the next generation so they can have a relationship with God

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