"KLnEd" [0100]

Knowledge
LearNing
EDucation
SUMMARY

A term which designates the inter-relatedness of "KnowledgeLNearningEDucation". Your instructor believes that instead of separate, discrete terms these three terms describe the process of discovering "the handiwork" of the Creator.

KNOWLEDGE

Yahweh created a vast world to discover: University touches on only a portion of the vastness of life, family, experience, everyday seeing, and awareness.

You are on an adventure of life which I believe will never stop for those who are in Christ!

You must discover for yourself the joy, jubilation, boredom, endurance required, tribulation, frustration of Klned.

All Klned is interwoven: Like vines, trees, and the animals and insects that populate the primal jungle. Don’t forget the light, wind, rain, dirt, fungus, and people.

THERE IS NO ONE BEST OF ALL Klned disciplines.

• There are some disciplines which will interest you today and not tomorrow...
• There are some which you may be better at understanding ...
• There may be some you hate but the principle holds true...
• When it comes to push and shove: you make the decision to learn or not to learn...

REMEMBER: There are things to learn which may not interest you, but God has put it all together and therefore anything "wholesome" is of value.

LEARNING

Reason-Faith Dichotomy

Some attempt to separate Reason and Faith. I see no need in separating the two. They are a both/and.

IN THE LEARNING PROCESS YOU MUST

Know your responsibility - ultimately you are responsible for learning.

Your pre-prejudices - We all enter into the learning situation with preconceived ideas. Everyone! does this. Preacher, scientist, ditch digger, we all view life with some degree of preconceived idea, this is not necessary bad.

We, however, need to be honest enough to be aware of it.

CULTURE COLORS OUR PERCEPTION

Your "Cecil B. deMill" and the Ten Commandments illustrate how our culture can "color" our view of things. I believe that God parted the water, the freed slaves cross over, and the pursuing Egyptians died. However, I am unable to read or hear this story without visualizing Cecil B. DeMill's interpretation. It very well may have happened exactly like he interpreted it, but the Bible does not give all the details. Therefore, if I interpret based on de Mill's interpretation, I may be wrong.

I believe that there are a great many beliefs which have a "cultural coloring." Do angels, angelos, have wings? Before you read further, choose and answer YES or NO or MAYBE.

If you do a word search for angels in the Old and New Testaments you will not find one reference to angels having wings. Cherebim and Serphim are said to have wings but not angels. Angles may have wings. The point which I am making is the the Bible does not say they do. We must be careful how we defend a belief system that says they do.

Cultural Coloring Lecture

STRAWMEN

In biblical interpretation, know that what you believe is actually what the Bible says. Often we build elaborate interpretations for particular passages of scripture. However, the text does not necessarily say all we have created in our interpretations.

Taking what the Bible says specifically and clearly is not a problem  with me. However, I take care to recognize the elaborately constructed interpretations (straw men) and am careful about defending them.

DO NOT ACCEPT EVERYTHING SAID OR PUBLISHED

This statement is especially true in finding resources on the Internet. Check things out. What are their sources.

Madeline Murray petition (need to find) The is a copy floating around which is not valid. However, many copy the petition and/or revised petition and pass it on.

Story about the "Nasa and Joshua's lost day" from Reasons To Believe 

You are responsible for your correct and incorrect belief systems. A child may be able to blame their parents for early beliefs, however, the adult is responsible.

If you believe something just because an authority says so, you are in danger of slowly and/or quickly moving away freedom into totalitarianism.

Accepting their belief systems which may have taken them years to develop.

EDUCATION

Questions about "who educated?" Is education dependent upon air conditioners? Can you learn in a school with only old books? Can a student learn in an classroom with a "lousy" teacher?

Is discussion better than Lecture? Can you be a good science student and not have a modern/updated lab?

The list of questions/ideas is limitless. Education is varied and limitless. To say that a student must have a particular environment to "really" learn is taking much away from the character of the student. Education is others helping and instructing. Education is also something beyond the poorest and/or bets instruction.

SUMMARY

I am constantly amazed and excited about the world to discover. I am hopeful the more and more students will be able to discover the truth which is there.

Though I do not necessary agree with all of Carl Sagan's interpretations, he did have a special insight into KLnEd.

Carl Sagan is reported to have said, "Everybody starts out as a scientist. Every child has the scientist's sense of wonder and awe. Too often we beat it out of the kid. The job of a science popularizer is to penetrate through the teachings that tell people they are too stupid to understand science."
 (This quote is from Washington Post, 1996. The link is dead. And they charge to "view" archived material.) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/frompost/features/dec96/sagan/sagan.htm

Last Updated 24 February, 2000