Above: Picture of a university or college professor trying to explain away God’s truth about eternal life through Jesus Christ.

In all fairness to the current system of higher education, professors and teachers are not more foolish, more deliberately deceitful or more evil than the average guy on the street. The evil comes when they pretend knowledge and wisdom they do not have, leading young minds astray — preventing the very experience of discovery and mental development they should be trying to inspire. Ego, fear of ridicule and the need for a regular income lead many a would-be teacher down a path of propagating closed-minded ignorance in the name of education.

I thank God for real teachers at any level, in any kind of school. Every teacher, just any other person, has his or her own set of ideas and heartfelt beliefs. A person cannot be faulted for thinking, for believing whatever they believe or for trying to make their own position clear as possible when asked. But an educator, a true teacher has a bigger job. He or she is not called to merely pass along ideas, answers or even elements of faith. Any book or pamphlet can do that. Any preacher can do that. A teacher is called to inspire the mind to action, to challenge the lazy human intellect to awake and get going on the road to discovery.

God has not called His own people to be sleep-walkers. The world is already filled with such minds and hearts. No one could long remain in spiritual darkness, ignoring God and rejecting all spiritual truth when presented with an entire universe of evidence without being mentally, as well as spiritually, dead or comatose. Good teachers are not afraid to go where others may be afraid to walk. take a look at our own Lord Jesus who regularly and publically challenged dull minds to think and decide and act. For His effort, He was often threatened and warned.

God is not ashamed or fearful when His people use the minds He gave us all. The Bible does not call us to rote learning, to sleep-walking religion, or to dead and lifeless ideas which have no place in daily life. Just the opposite, God calls us to life and light and wisdom and understanding and genuine living faith that is based on serious investigation of the facts.

The world sleeps and in its slumber it dreams of darkness and endless myth. Evolution is a myth. A Godless universe is a myth. Abortion without guilt and consequence is a myth. Not because i say so, and not only because the Bible says so, but because all of the universe and all of life says so, as well. God’s universe speaks with one voice, confirming and affirming all the the Scripture teaches us about God, about our own sins, about judgment itself. Right is right, truth is truth, life is life, and no amount of self delusion or rejection of truth will change anything.

The fool has said in his heart there is no God. How much more folly is in the heart of a professor that teaches such nonsense out loud. No amount of false education will make sin go away. Even the Law of Moses could not make sin go away. Only God’s grace in Jesus Christ can make a sinner clean. We cannot rid ourselves of truth and guilt and shame for evil acts merely by pretending that the world is not as it is. If the emperor is naked, he is naked, no matter what we are all led to believe.

We need real teachers in every kind of school. We need them in Bible colleges and seminaries. We need them in public high schools, grade schools, in secular colleges, in publically-funded universities — in Sunday schools, Bible studies and in VBS classes. Not everyone is called to teach. But we can and must pray that God will bring us more genuine teachers and fewer bureaucrats in our educational system.

Jim