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To: verga; Tramonto; 1000 silverlings; Alex Murphy; bkaycee; blue-duncan; boatbums; caww; ...
Yeah because everyone knows that you should just as the guy on the corner to take out your appendix, who cares if he went to medical school or not, or even if he is a real doctor.

Right now you are setting the cause of homeschooling and protestantism back, way back.

Is this anti-intellectualism posture really the pose you want to take?

Just couldn't resist taking a swipe at homeschoolers could you?

As far as the charges of *anti-intellectualism*, coming from the world. Fine. I'm the foolish thing of the world that the world rejected and God used to confound it. I'll wear it as a badge of honor. God saved the world through the foolishness of the preaching of the gospel which is the power of my salvation.

1 Corinthians 1:18-31 18 For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.”

20 Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.

22 For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, 23 but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, 24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

26 For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. 27 But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; 28 God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, 29 so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. 30 And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, 31 so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”

Luke 18:9-14

9 He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt:

10 “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’

13 But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ 14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

1,611 posted on 01/18/2012 8:01:04 AM PST by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: metmom; verga
AMEN, mm.

"Let no man deceive himself, If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. And again, the Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain. Therefore let no man glory in men. ..." 1 Cor. 3:18-21.

1,612 posted on 01/18/2012 8:07:36 AM PST by smvoice (Better Buck up, Buttercup. The wailing and gnashing is for an eternity..)
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To: metmom
Just couldn't resist taking a swipe at homeschoolers could you?

Only at the anti-intellectual militant ones.

You see Knowledge of God is vital to our eternal destiny.

1,617 posted on 01/18/2012 8:34:36 AM PST by verga (We get what we tolerate and increase that which we reward)
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