Plucking the Eagle's Wings

Plucking the Eagle's Wings

the Eternal One (Isaiah 6:1-5). The Cherubim, Seraphim and mighty archangels were heard whispering, "Holy, holy is the Lord." When Abraham heard His voice, he fell in the dust. Daniel fell on his face and John, in Revelation, "fell at His feet as one being dead" (Revelation 1:17). Imagine how God must tremble at a spiritually ignorant professor who attempts to convince young students that God does not exist. That breathing piece of clay is fortunate that God is a loving God, "longsuffering and not willing that any should perish" (2 Peter 3:9). Hypocrisy and compromise have been rampant since the moral cultural upheaval of the 1960s. Kids raised without the Bible understood little or nothing about God, prayer, or moral absolutes. As they have grown, they have influenced public policy, education, and the media. Schools are filled with political correctness. Students are taught to question everything their Christian parents taught them. Parents can no longer publicly offer a prayer for protection for their children before a high school football game. Without moral absolutes, kids growing up today are guided by situational ethics. This process allows them to make up their values as they go through life. Schools in early America did not teach situational ethics. The Ivy League colleges were started by Christians who included Christian values within school curricula. The list includes Harvard (1638), Yale (1701), Princeton (1746), and Dartmouth (1754). These colleges eventually became secular in that they no longer included the teachings of the Gospel. Many Founding Fathers attended these schools before the change. Fifty-two percent of all seventeenth century Harvard graduates became ministers (Source: The Rebirth of America ) Harvard's "Rules and Precepts" adopted in 1646 reflected its values. Among its precepts were: • "Everyone shall consider the main end of his life and study to know God and Jesus Christ which is eternal life." • "Seeing the Lord giveth wisdom, every one shall seriously by prayer in secret seek wisdom of him." • "Everyone shall so exercise himself in reading the Scriptures twice a day that they be ready to give an account of their proficiency therein, both in theoretical observations of languages and logic, and in practical and spiritual truth."

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