Maturity

But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil. Hebrews 5:14

We are all involved in a Spiritual warfare that is not going away just because we do not like it.

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. Ephesians 6:12

Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints. For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. Jude 3,4

In 1956 the New York Campaign of the Billy Graham Crusade chose to accept liberal sponsorship and place converts in liberal churches because he believed it gave him the opportunity to reach more people. This policy of “reaching more people” at the expense of part of the message of the Word of God is rampant in churches across the United States.

Today, the fruit of those decisions are churches with unbelievers in positions of leadership. While Jude tells us this has been going on for 2,000, mature Christians have the responsibility to contend earnestly for the faith. The difficulty we have is that we have not practiced and our senses are not trained to discern good and evil.

Mary and I are working on a series to partially correct that serious error. The original preface grew to be a 600-page book in its own right, Antidisestablishmentarianism. While while COA is designed for homeschool, the Conflict of the Ages series is suitable for anyone. Part One covers the creation, showing the historical record in the Word of God to be accurate. Part Two covers the origin of evil and the antediluvian civilization. Part Three covers the Flood and the Ice Age. At this point in time, we intend to make a series of modules as e-books. The current master plan of 46 might change as they are written. Each module includes its own questions and answers.

The Word of God commands us to be mature and through practice not only be able to discern good and evil, but also to fight, struggle against evil. Victory is of the Lord. But we are responsible to fight for God’s Word.

We also are writing these principles to fulfill, in part, the requirements of a homeschool education. Since believers will live in a world controlled by Secular Humanists, we must train students in the tactics of this world. We include every possible source outside the Bible to demonstrate the principles of the Word of God in this world’s setting. Often this called the inoculation principle. We present enough the world’s beliefs and their system that the student may both understand and resist that system.

Sadly, what most students encounter is inoculation against the Word of God. It is presented in a distorted form which turns them against God for the rest of their lives. Sadder still, this is often done in Churches and Christian homes.