The Cornerstone of Christian Homeschooling, Freedom from Sin Nature Curtis Ophoven 3/8/2010 - 10 Comments The cornerstone of Christian homeschooling is to teach a child to control themselves and resist their sinful nature. Proverbs 22:6 (NAS): "Train up a child in the way he should go, even when he is old he will not depart from it. In this process of training up a child, it is absolutely critical to administer loving discipline to root out the foolishness of man that is part of our nature so that a child can learn to take control of themselves and become their own master, ruling over their own foolish nature. Only parents have the authority and the opportunity to create a relationship with their children that is needed to support this loving discipline that is critical to the entire life of a child. If a child does not get the loving discipline they need to free them from their sin nature, they grow up at a major disadvantage and are at great risk of rebelling against both civil laws and against God.   This lack of discipline results in a child that is on their own to try to find a way to gain control over their sin nature and lust for rebellion.  This puts a child’s life and their eternity in jeopardy. Homeschooling is perhaps the best method to provide a child this critical training that unlocks the chains of not being able to control themselves, while giving them a foundational teaching of Gods laws to help guide them through their entire life.   This critical teaching is why Homeschooling has the potential to save the nation from the chaos that unbridled sinful nature leads to.  Homeschooling is perhaps the only place that the next generation is being given the advantage of mastering their wills.  These children are the only ones that will be able to resist the temptations of the devil, which is the only way to defeat him.  Without the ability to resist the temptations of the devil, they remain slaves to him.   This is why your child has a 90% chance of falling away from Christianity in a public school. The public school does not discipline children in this way nor do they teach children the laws of God. Children in public schools are therefore not given the freedom to live within their own self control. The public school system does not recognize God or the value of teaching His laws. Children are instead taught to embrace their natural instincts and live according to their own feelings.  This is not only dangerous, it is guaranteed to lead to destruction. The bible teaches us that the heart of man is deceitful and desperately wicked.  Every child is born desperately needing loving discipline and the guiding laws of God to become a useful part of society.  Homeschooling is not just saving our nation billions of dollars each year in taxes, it is saving the nation from complete social collapse. Subscribe via RSS Copyright © 2008 SaveMoneyHomeschooling.com. All rights reserved. Reader Comments Comment 1 Jen Says: on Monday, March 08, 2010 12:40:42 PM The lack of disciple that you pointed out has led the public schools to chaos - as teachers are now using taser guns to try to control schools. Public Schools Turn to Taser Guns to Discipline Students http://motherjones.com/politics/2009/09/recipe-disaster-school-cops-are-being-armed-50000-volt-tasers Comment 2 Sally Says: on Sunday, March 21, 2010 7:52:23 PM Where the USA society is headed with its rejection of Christianity. Good article: http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2010/03/in-the-soviet-suburbs-of-hell-and-the-blasted-avenues-of-mogadishu-i-saw-what-our-society-could-beco.html "Soviet power had taken on the responsibilities of God, but its commandments were very different. In fact, Soviet Communism used the same language, treasured the same hopes and appealed to the same constituency as Western atheism does today. Soviet power was the opposite of faith in God. It was faith in the greatness of humanity and in the perfectibility of human society. The atheists cannot honestly disown it. Soviet life, I learned, was incredibly harsh and often dangerous. Birth itself was an authoritarian ordeal, with newborns snatched from their mothers by scowling nurses in tall chefs' hats, then tightly wrapped like loaves and denied breast or bottle until the set time came around. You could spot a maternity hospital by the strings hanging from the windows, bearing pathetic messages from wives to husbands. Once the baby was home, married life quickly included the state as third parent, since salaries were carefully set so that it took two wages to pay for the basics of life. Children were placed very early in slovenly nurseries. Several features of life in Moscow made a big impact on me, accustomed as I was to the culture and good manners of a rich and stable Protestant Christian society. I came to the conclusion, and nothing has since shifted it, that enormous and intrusive totalitarian state power is an enemy of civility, consideration and even of enlightened self-interest. I also concluded that a society which was de-Christianised would also face such problems, because I have seen public discourtesy and incivility spreading rapidly in Britain. This decline struck me very hard when I returned in 1995 after nearly five years in Russia and the United States, and the rapid vanishing of Christianity, as the last generation of believers ages and disappears, seems to me to be a major part of it. I do not think I would have been half so shocked by the squalor and rudeness of 1990 Moscow if I had not come from a country where Christian forbearance was still well established. If I had then been able to see the London of 2010, I would have been equally shocked. But my experience of the harshness, stink and desperation in the Soviet Empire were a prelude to much worse desolation. It was December 1992. I was sitting on a cargo of food in a Russian transport plane on its way from Kenya to the Somali capital, Mogadishu. The supplies were bound for a big international news agency, and my photographer colleague John Downing and I had hitched a ride. By this time Mogadishu was no longer a functioning capital: no commercial airports, no law, no police, no streetlights, no electricity, no normal phones, no embassies. What I saw in the next few days has no specifically Christian religious message. The people of Mogadishu are Muslims, whose country has been cursed by repeated interference from global superpowers more interested in its strategic position than its society. It showed me a vision of how fragile our civilisations are. At this point in my life I had already returned to Christianity, but I saw no connection, at the time, between faith and the shape of society. The atheist Soviet Union, where desecration and heroic survival were all around me, began to alter that. Mogadishu accelerated the process. I thought I saw, in its blasted avenues, its terror and its lives ruled by the gun, a possible prophecy of where my own society was headed - though for different reasons. I still think this." STORY CONTINUES AT LINK Comment 3 Steve Says: on Thursday, April 22, 2010 7:13:16 PM http://dougstephan.com/blog?action=viewBlog&blogID=319427018749335899 Student suspended for finger gun Apr-20-2010 "A 13-year-old girl was suspended from school after she was accused of threatening her teacher. Her family says it's a misunderstanding under a zero tolerance policy. Bleyl Middle School student Taylor Trostle and her parents say it's a classroom game that got her kicked out of school, and now has her labeled as a "terrorist." "I was shocked because it just seems ludicrous and appalling," Bleyl Middle School student Taylor Trostle's mother, Kristin Trostle, said. When Kristin Trostle and her fiancee got a phone call from the principal's office at her daughter's school, they knew something was wrong. But the story they got blew them away. "I mean, terroristic threat, to me that's a serious statement," Kristin Trostle said. "That's one of the most serious things you could say to somebody." Taylor was wearing an NYPD shirt at school. She says in the last moments of math class, she and some friends were pretending to be police officers. "I was shooting the markers at the front of the board," Taylor Trostle said. "It was just like this and I was like 'pow pow' and then she just turned around." Taylor was sent to the principal's office and immediately suspended for three days. Her write up says the finger gun was pointed in the teacher's direction. "That was considered a terroristic threat because the teacher feared for her life," Kristin Trostle said. According to Cy-Fair ISD's code of conduct, a terroristic threat is a level four violation, which is on par with assault, public lewdness, or selling alcohol or drugs at school. Any threat to a teacher falls under a 'zero tolerance policy.' "Now she's got a very serious mark on her record and she's labeled," Kristin Trostle said. Cy-Fair ISD denied our repeated requests for comment, so did Taylor Trostle's 7th grade math teacher. Now- Taylor Trostle says she's being mocked at school, for a silly game that got her kicked out. "They all say that I'm gonna kill somebody, and...they know that I wouldn't do that," she said. Her mother wants the school district to take a hard look at policies because she believes can tarnish the reputation of an honor roll student like Taylor. "Really and truly make an honest decision -- is this a legitimate threat, do i really feel threatened by what this child just said?" Kristin Trostle said." Comment 4 Olive Oil Says: on Thursday, April 22, 2010 7:20:08 PM Report says school food making kids unfit to serve Comment 5 Gotta love the government Says: on Friday, April 30, 2010 6:25:24 PM http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/7643996/Boy-banned-from-eating-cheese-sandwich.html Boy banned from eating cheese sandwich A two year old boy was banned from eating cheese sandwiches at a council-run nursery unless his parents added a lettuce leaf. Comment 6 Thomas Says: on Monday, May 17, 2010 7:13:35 PM http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/16/texas-schools-rewrites-us-history Comment 7 Living the Homeschool Deream Says: on Monday, May 31, 2010 9:40:45 AM Preparedness Apologetics "I have had a lot of people ask me if Preparedness/Survival was a "Christian Tenet", or rather, if Christians weren't supposed to be relying on God to take care of them in all situations, even emergencies. After much conversation with my husband I have come up with what I consider "Preparedness Apologetics". We do believe that being prepared is a biblical principle. Here are our reasons." http://livintheoffgriddream.blogspot.com/2010/05/preparedness-apologetics.html Comment 8 Sarah Says: on Wednesday, November 14, 2007 2:50:26 AM http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/7771112/Children-as-young-as-4-to-be-fingerprinted-to-borrow-school-books.html Children, 4, 'to be fingerprinted to borrow school books from library' Children as young as four could be fingerprinted to take out books from a school libaray. It comes after schemes to fingerprint children as part of payment for their school dinners was introduced around the country. Comment 9 Mr. Smith Says: on Monday, June 07, 2010 6:50:31 PM http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/06/04/utah-considers-make-th-grade-optional/ Utah Considers Making 12th Grade Optional A cost-cutting proposal originally aimed at eliminating the 12th grade in Utah has been revised to instead allow students to graduate from high school earlier. State legislators are studying the proposal over the summer to decide whether to move forward on it, a spokesman for the Utah school board told FoxNews.com. State Sen. Chris Buttars made the proposal in February as the state faced a $700 million shortfall, saying seniors are usually out to lunch during their last school year. After teachers and parents voiced opposition, Buttars toned the proposal down and presented it as "accelerated graduation," school board spokesman Mark Peterson said. Buttars has said the move could save up to $60 million. Buttars was not able to comment due to an illness, his wife told FoxNews.com. Peterson said the earliest lawmakers can take action on the proposal is January when the next session begins. "It hasn't died," he said. "But it's not being actively pursued." School only four days a week works better yet: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100604/ap_on_re_us/us_four_day_school_week Comment 10 Nessa Says: on Tuesday, June 08, 2010 2:15:15 AM i think teaching children to control themselves and resist their sinful nature is the most important thing as this is all we need to raise god fearing human beings and if a child knows what is good or bad, it will instill in him or her a sense of morality and ethics that will stay with them forever!! Write a Comment Please keep comments civil and on-topic. Abusive or inappropriate comments will be removed without warning.  Name (required)     Email Address (required)     Website URL  Comment

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