Our American schools are failing badly. Even those with advanced college degrees find
it hard to find employment, because as numerous employers have stated,
graduates lack even the most basic skills needed for employment. Many cannot read or write intelligibly or lack
even basic math and arithmetic skills.
Most have only a superficial understanding of basic scientific
principles, hardly any have basic critical thinking skills, and many have
little or no sense of personal responsibility.
While many complain about immigrants taking away the jobs, many
employers have found that those immigrants usually make more satisfactory
employees because they have the necessary skills to do the job even though they
have far less education.
In an effort to correct the problems, federal and state
governments, and numerous educational organizations have developed various
programs, including the No Child Left Behind program, Common Core, standardized
testing programs and annual teacher and school evaluations. Schools
regularly switch curriculums, in an effort to find a more satisfactory program,
and introduce special reading, math or special education programs to help those
who are behind catch up. Kids begin
preschool at younger ages and more have college degrees than at any time in
history, yet things continue to get worse.
Why?
Over the last few years, our society has changed dramatically,
from a society where most people had strong connections to farms and
agriculture to a society where a majority live in towns and cities and make
their living in other occupations. We
can travel around the world in a matter of hours, and can see what is happening
anywhere in the world thanks to satellite communications. We can talk to people thousands of miles away
on cellphones and can make purchases or do research in libraries around the
world from our homes thanks to the internet.
Doctors do brain surgery, and open heart surgery on a regular basis, and
we are able to locate and extract oil from far below the earth’s surface. Political systems, moral codes and fashions
have all changed.
As a result, our society has largely forgotten the old scientific
laws principles in their rush to keep up with the new technologies, fashions
and standards. So called scientific
writers state that we have overcome the law of gravity for example, and their
statement is accepted without question.
While it is true that we can send a spaceship to other planets, it is
because we have a better understanding of the laws of science and can use the
principles of gravity in conjunction with other laws to make it happen, not
because we have overcome the law of gravity.
Al Gore could predict, incorrectly as it turned out, that the glaciers
would all be melted by 2020, because people forgot that as the sea warmed,
evaporation would increase,, and increased evaporation would result in cooling
the water, and ultimately the atmosphere.
Periods of global warming have been followed by periods of cooling
throughout the earth’s existence, as geological and archaeological evidence proves. Unfortunately people fall for such false
claims because they have not learned the basic principles of science.
Similarly, because we have ignored the basic principles of
genetics, we are told that homosexuality is a genetic trait and cannot be
helped, and that a transgender man can be a woman even though they are
genetically male. A major newssource
recently reported that a man is pregnant.
Checking out the story, it was discovered that in fact, a woman who claims
she is a man was having a baby. Her claims
did not change the fact that she is a woman, whether she believes them or
not. The changes in our world are superficial, and
have not affected the underlying scientific principles.
Unfortunately, many in the church have adopted the world’s
attitude, and assume the old rules no longer apply. We need to remember what God said in Malachi
3:5-6. “And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness
against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers,
and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the
fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me,
saith the LORD of hosts. For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of
Jacob are not consumed.” If God
changed, he would have destroyed al
mankind for their sin, but because he loves us he does not.
God has not and will not change.
His plans and principles are the same as they were when the world was
created. In Matthew 5:18, Jesus said, “For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and
earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all
be fulfilled.” Because Jesus Christ
does not change we need to make sure we do not follow different teachings
according to Hebrews 13:8-9. “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day,
and for ever. Be not carried about with
divers and strange doctrines…”
We need to recognize the job we have been given, of telling the
world about God’s unchangeable plan, as Paul describes in Ephesians
3:8-11. “Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace
given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of
Christ; And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which
from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by
Jesus Christ: To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in
heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God, According
to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
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