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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.

  Cynthia McHugh replied 22 hours, 46 minutes ago 325 Members · 327 Replies

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  Kelly Bland

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  01/03/2024 at 12:09

  Yes I would agree because like she said, God is the bedrock. He is our firm foundation and I feel like non-believers don’t truly grasp the wisdom God gives us believers.

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  Danelle Singhanart

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  12/31/2023 at 10:44

  I agree that true Christians can love wisdom as God intended them to as our desire is to get to know God. We can’t get to know God without finding His wisdom. He is the bedrock of our lives and we know He loves us. Therefore His wisdom is what we seek. Before knowing God, people may search for wisdom to attain and may very well find God in the process of their search for true wisdom, yet they will have a difficult time loving wisdom as God created us to without knowing God Himself.

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  Bonner Davis

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  12/17/2023 at 22:05

  I would disagree. This is an untenable statement, because it dismisses all non-believing philosophers (or anyone for that matter) who have ever existed as being unable to truly love wisdom. Because we are made in His image, we mirror certain capacities of God. Love is one of them. There is no reason why a person isn’t capable of loving wisdom or even truly loving wisdom from even a secular-humanist perspective.

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  Angela Williams

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  12/16/2023 at 22:04

  I agree. Only believers can love wisdom. God created us with a mind, body, and soul. God’s word is our bedrock!

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

  Cynthia McHugh replied 22 hours, 44 minutes ago 217 Members · 218 Replies

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  Eleanor Miner

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  07/22/2022 at 05:19

  I would very much like to be effective in how I create a strong context for Christian Education in m classroom and in my daily interactions with children, colleagues and parents. I would also aim to continually be mindful of wisdom as the bedrock and foundation of my interactions with students.

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

  Cynthia McHugh replied 22 hours, 41 minutes ago 215 Members · 223 Replies

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  Erin Kayton

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  10/06/2022 at 10:40

  It is imperative that Christian educators have a Christian Philosophy of Education so that we can properly equip our students to view the world ahead of them with a Christian worldview. The Christian Philosophy allows us to teach the truth to our students.

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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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