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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.

  Angela Keathley replied 1 week, 1 day ago 305 Members · 307 Replies

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  Danielle Phillips

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  12/14/2023 at 22:56

  I personally agree that you need to be a believer to truly love. If you don’t have that personal relationship with God you don’t really know what true love is until you understand that He came to save us and he gave his life willingly to make that happen. So I don’t feel that someone who is not a believer would be able to understand that and they would not be able to offer a love to anything else in their life.

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  Cynthia Slane

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  12/02/2023 at 21:01

  The lecturer states she “would contend that only a believer can truly love wisdom as God created us to love.” I agree with her statement because internalizing scripture provides the knowledge that God has given as a guide in everyday life experiences, and reading scripture or quoting scripture shows that we treasure the words and wisdom that God has shared with us. He did this because he loves us, and we demonstrate appreciation for this gift by passing it on as we would a family heirloom. As Christian educators, our enthusiasm and passion for scripture fill a classroom as we infuse scripture into our lessons, conversations, and relationships.

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  Maurice Williams

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  11/29/2023 at 16:51

  The lecturer can back this statement with scriptures. I am reminded of James 3:13-18. “Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.” In sum, God as the author of love demonstrates to us that wisdom that causes strife and is without love is not of His origin. But true Godly wisdom is an expression of his nature (fruits of the spirit) and his all-encompassing love.

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  Christina Bilodeau

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  11/18/2023 at 18:19

  Yes, believers, who accept and follow the teachings of their faith, are in a better position to understand and love true wisdom as God intended. Believers may contend that spiritual discernment is necessary to grasp the deeper, spiritual dimensions of wisdom, and only those who have faith possess this discernment.

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  Mara Strobel

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  11/18/2023 at 16:25

  Agree. God is the author and provider of truth and the giver of wisdom. We must seek Him and He will give us wisdom if we ask.

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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?

  Angela Keathley replied 1 week, 1 day ago 200 Members · 201 Replies

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  Jennifer Griarte

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  07/20/2022 at 13:21

  I hope to have my love for God and His word be contagious in my classroom. I teach Math, and I struggle to implement a Biblical integration directly into a lesson. I tend to focus more on the uniqueness of God’s creation in every student.

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  Lindsey Artrip

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  07/19/2022 at 14:47

  This is my third year teaching in a Christian school, and teaching in general. I started going to church and truly believing in God and Christ as my Savior about a year before I began teaching, and I am so grateful God gave me the gift of this job so that I could grow closer to Him and do what He has called me to do-teach the future generations about Him and His creation. My hope is to have a better understanding of what true Christian education is and ways to more thoroughly incorporate God and His word in every aspect of my classroom and beyond for myself and my students. I have struggled with Biblical integration, so I hope to grow in that area.

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  Stacy Mccole

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  07/12/2022 at 10:59

  I hope to gain an understanding of ways to extend my Biblical worldview and knowledge of how to better integrate that into my teaching.

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  Alexandra Schaefer

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  07/11/2022 at 09:57

  I hope to be able to better defend biblical positions on education and my Christian world view both inside- as well as outside the classroom.

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  Karen Pepper

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  07/07/2022 at 17:37

  I hope to gain more knowledge and help my students to be better in every aspect of their lives.

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

  Angela Keathley replied 1 week, 1 day ago 199 Members · 207 Replies

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  Katherine Starling

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  09/22/2022 at 15:18

  If we go into education with a secular view of education, either we are being intellectually dishonest or we are not reaching our potential. We could only partially teach from a secular worldview because it should be foreign to us. The two don’t align, they have different starting points, different goals, and different ways of viewing human beings. Everything education is based on is different.

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  Kenneth Tyler

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  09/21/2022 at 23:33

  The most important reason we need to have a Christian philosophy is to have the why behind why and what we are instilling into our students. As a Christian everything I do should be done through and with the lense of Jesus.

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  Joungmin Oh

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  08/12/2022 at 17:21

  It is stated in the book of Romans, “Do not conform to the patterns of this world.” As Christian educators, it is crucial for us to educate ourselves with a Christian philosophy. Christian educators need to be equipped with Godly wisdom in order to guide the new generation to righteousness.

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  Theresa Landrum

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  08/03/2022 at 13:09

  Without the Bible as the foundation of our worldview, how can we be called Christian educators?

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  Caleb

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  07/31/2022 at 16:22

  Christian educators must have a Christian philosophy of education because it is a clear directive from God in his Word. In multiple places throughout Scripture, God instructs us to instruct children. The context of these statements is not limited to a family or church setting, but instructions for training the next generation are to be applied in all areas and in every environment. It is the responsibility of Christian educators to teach students how to think Christian-ly. Proverbs, Romans, Psalms, the Gospels, and the Epistles all speak to this implicitly. Although they may not address this directly, there are numerous places within Scripture where the impact can be seen by a lack of Biblical or Scriptural teaching about God. In the context of Christian education, a Christian philosophy acts as the guardrails for our teaching. We exist to point our students to Jesus, whatever the subject we happen to teach. We exist in our classrooms to point our students to the supremacy of the Christian worldview.

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