“Academic Excellence”

What is it?  However one teaches, it cannot be good without conveyance of the knowledge of God’s Word. 

We hear and read regularly about those here and there striving to achieve “academic excellence”!  And everybody nods in patriotic obedience to the undefined call to the high goal and the noble task of teaching and achieving things academic and reaching the goal of producing educated people.

But to what end and how, once it is defined, does one get there?  Pursuit of an answer must start with such clarification.  And here it is:  the end must be “the know and glorify God.”  The means must be: “to convey divine truth to people and encourage their obedience to it.” 

And how is this to be done?  Certainly not: “without respect to creed”; rather, it must be attained through the teaching of the Law of God and the Gospel.  If one is to teach principles of Right and Wrong – the foundation of law, justice, and government – one must teach the Creed which proclaims the Law of God when it declares that God “spoke” to the world “through the prophets.” 

The Christian faith proclaims that the Law of God was given by God.  As such, we are obliged to honor His law and proclaim its goodness and necessity for our wellbeing.

It is perverted academics which seeks to instruct and guide students while omitting fundamental truth from the curriculum.  This omission deprives the student of a basis for living an orderly, just, and merciful life.

6 Nov., 2021