Edolatry
The Catholic come home commercial mentions that they brought us the College and University system. So we need to look at this system more closely also.
If someone has a Law degree from Harvard and one has a high school diploma, which one do you hold as higher esteemed in society? Of course the one who holds a degree from Harvard.
In the Untied States we worship many Gods. Education is one of the many gods and having a good education and having a degree from a prestigious institution is worth more than money itself.
We instill in our children the importance of getting good grades before they even start school. We are more concerned that our children get a good education than we are about them living for the Lord and living a Godly life.
We go to great lengths for knowledge. We save money for a lifetime to be able to send our children and grandchildren to college and universities. Most families can not save money for education of their children and it's easy to go into debt with easy to get college loans, hoping you will be able to find a good paying job after college.
These colleges and universities teach our children secular values. Your child may have been in church their entire life and may have memorized many bible verses.
When they enter into these colleges and universities, if they are found out to be a christian, they are often ridiculed by their professors and peers. They are told how dumb they are for believing in a fairytale. Only then will many question their faith because we are programmed to believe people who have a degree are smarter.
Men love to praise themselves and wear their degrees like a badge of honor. Framing them and hanging them on walls for all who to see. They put titles before and after their names to let people know that they are to be respected.
Education is a form of evolution. Men like to be able to set themselves apart from the animal kingdom. Simply because we are the most intelligent animal in the animal kingdom and the most intelligent person will be worshiped as the highest type of evolved animal. Everyone wants to be intelligent and wants their offspring to be even more intelligent. Education is what makes us human and separates us from the animals.
Christians worship education more than most others. They hold preachers with degrees from theological seminaries higher than a person who is blessed by god. These seminary universities, men teach men. Men are fallible and they teach out of the text books of other fallible men. Most of the time they teach the doctrines of the whore, the catholic church without knowing the deceptive qualities that have been passed down for two thousand years and has been intertwined with the original meanings of Jesus Christ.
Most believe that someone with a four year degree has more knowledge of the Bible than someone who reads the bible everyday for seventy-five years. People need to learn how to interpret the bible. Which this is true in some cases. Some of the teachings in the Bible are as plain as black and white. More on this later.
Some pastors attend seminary for the wrong reasons. They want to get paid for their college education. What organizations have the most money to pay? It's the Church. Big Houses and fancy cars, especially if you land a job in one of the mega churches of today. Some just love to be called Pastor, they want to be trusted. We do trust them because of their degrees from institutions of higher education.
It does not matter which denomination you belong to, the truth is most worship this false god of education. As parents we are all too eager to see our children graduate from these secular and/or Christian universities. In reality we should want to see our children have a childlike faith in Jesus.
Through my years in the church, I have seen people conducting and finalizing business deals on Sundays at the Church. I have seen churches in trouble financially, having to cut the pay of the Pastor and the pastor gets mad and leaves for a church who can pay him his worth. An educated person thinks,“Well I paid the sacrifice and spent all these years in school and I deserve to get paid.”
I have often seen children, some in my very own family, who attend a Christian school all their life and enter into the institutions of higher education and emerge from these universities as godless and as atheist with their new found intelligence. They have reasoned away god and some believe they are smarter than God himself.
With a degree, people think they are somebody. Some of these “somebodies” that I have met through my life, do not have a bit of common sense and lack the wisdom to apply their educational knowledge. Engineers are the worst, they have the book smarts and they lack in the ability to apply the principals. But you can not tell them any different because they have paid the price with their journey of higher education and have a degree. Even the wisest eighty year old man can not tell a twenty-two year old what's right from wrong. But not in all cases, there are some educated people who are wise in their years and seek advise. Those wise ones often advance faster in their chosen career fields.
For those Christian parents who send their children to institutions of higher education, rather it be secular or Christian are almost ensuring that their children turn out confused with weaker or counterfeit faith.
But some leaders of the Church will tell the lesser ones that they are not smart enough to understand what God is saying in the Bible and you need someone with a degree in theology to help you understand the hidden meaning about the passage and you do not understand the audience in whichit is was originally spoken to or you do not understand to events surrounding the Biblical passage or it's history. I say this is nonsense! God speaks to everyone differently with different messages in order to achieve His ultimate Will. You just have to know God's voice and recognize when He is speaking to you.
Jesus teaches us somethings are hidden from the wise and educated. In Luke 10:21-22 Jesus says, “In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight. All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.”
What are these things that God has hidden from the wise and intelligent? How do we know if the Son has revealed these things only to the well educated theological masters? It reminds me of today's Church as the pharisees and sadducees of old.
It was the matter of interpretation that brought me to where I am today. The matter of and manner of interpretation, over the years, raised some very serious questions. The matter of interpretation was different from Church to Church and Pastor to Pastor. Which one was right? When each had it's own interpretation. So I set out on a journey for truth.
These masters of interpretation dumb down their flocks. Most of their flock will not dare question the teachings of these earthly educated masters. They will not read their bibles for themselves.They just go with the flow and feel good about themselves because they attended church.
Why does God delight in us “simpletons” that have childlike faith in his son? He is looking for meek, humbled and servants with pure hearts. Jesus said to the Pharisees in Luke 16:15, “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly esteemed among men is an abomination in the sight of God.”
A degree is highly esteemed among men and not with Jesus. We worship the people who hold Bachelors and Doctorate degrees.
Ask a pastor, why did you go to seminary or college in order to become a pastor? Most will say they had a “calling from God”. Then ask, if you needed to go to an institution of higher learning to become a preacher. Some answers will amaze you.
This education system is not new. In the early days of the university system, only the wealthy could afford higher education for themselves and their children. Only in today's times has education became the norm and almost anyone can go to the colleges and universities and obtain degrees. It's so common today that we do not give a second thought about it.
Before the later half of the Twentieth Century, most families worked farms and was lucky to attend school or even make it past grade school. Children had to stay home to work on the family farms to just make a living and survive. Education was not really needed. The top priorities were farming, cooking, sewing, washing clothes, hunting and the basics to get by in this life.
The bible even speaks of this on the end times in the Book of Daniel 12:4, “many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.”
Today we run to and fro to obtain knowledge. We travel at great links in order to obtain knowledge. We often travel out of state or out of the country to attend a university that teaches knowledge of one thing or another.
If this was not such a problem, then why did God mention it to Daniel? Maybe because higher education teaches us to rely on our self more than to rely on God.
God in Genesis 2:17 told Adam and Eve, “of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.”
Knowledge is something that makes people aware of other things than that of the Godly things.
Is education worth more than your placement in eternity? It's a hard choice. You can have both. It's what you do with your knowledge that's important. Are you advancing the Will of God or the things of the devil?
