“As a Christian school Bible teacher at the high school level, doubt is often treated as a virtue. I am all for allowing students to ask questions, but our role then is to proclaim the truth and show them what God says in Scripture – that must become the foundation. Yet, so many of my colleagues are more content to fuel and foster the doubt as if that is commendable self-discovery. They equally loathe to actually proclaim what Scripture says because that might offend a student and well, “we have to accommodate all of the denominations here.” Is it any wonder then that so many children leave Christian school only to apostatize?
I am only one teacher but do we ever need more who are ready and able to stand firm and say: “thus says the Lord” not only in the pulpit but also in the classroom.”
Jacob
A few observations Jacob
1.) First, God be with you for championing his cause.
2.) The irony in fostering doubt teachers and ministers are at that point fostering certainty. They are fostering in students the certainty of those student’s doubts. Skepticism is inherently self-contradictory.
3.) We see in your note the oxymoronic nature of interdenominational schools. Teaching students that all contradictory Christian beliefs are to be allowed as truth inculcates in Christian students the conviction that only a lack of conviction on the things that matter most is to be prized. Calvinists should never send their children to these kinds of schools because Calvinism is superior to all other Christian faith systems and it should be taught as being superior.
“You may examine all the history of Christian people and of religious systems and you will not find any more eminent for piety and morality than the Calvinists. In charity, in liberality, in industry, in temperance, in purity of life, they stand without a superior — perhaps without an equal. Compare the Huguenots and Jansenists, who were Calvinists, with their countrymen, the Romanists, and Jesuits, who were Arminians. Were not the former illustrious in virtue as the latter were notorious for immorality.”
Nathaniel S. McFetridge
Calvinism in History; A Political, Moral, and Evangelizing Force — p. 89
