Tuesday, March 10, 2009
{ 4:21 AM }
Saviour, Redeemer, You are God
Now I can trade these ashes in for beauty,
And wear forgiveness like a crown.
Coming to kiss the feet of mercy,
I lay every burden down,
At the foot of the cross.
Well, you see the Bible talks of human wisdom being foolish (Isa 29:14) and here we are living for humanism. For the glorification of what humans believe is right.
The education system moots competition and gives rise to elitism, this is very evident, it's innate. Human pride is something we, as sinful people, are born with, but whether we intend to live it through is a different story.
So yeah it is a test, the education system is a very strong test of what one will believe.
It's something like the pharisees who studied the Bible till it became dry and emotionless, yet people bring it home and for some, it comes alive. Heck, people even spend their lives on it. (hello, albert einstein? aristotle? isaac newton, and their group of scientific comrades - i say this in a completely lighthearted tone) That forms the idolatry of science, information and humanism. Could we then say that this is our modern day Baal? Because by investing your entire life and energy in it (for some, grades and marks are everything. "we have no life outside of school"), are you not worshipping it?
However, in Singapore, the system is only compulsory till the age of 12.
Socially, you would be forced to take it up to jc (and hence uni) or poly.
But you see, all this is of this world. It is the work in this world.
So where does a Christian fit in? Heck, where does God Himself fit in?
Unless you mean that God does see the heart, and you're studying to glorify Him, but how exactly does memorizing human wisdom and agreeing with it, hence glorifying and promoting it(Humanism), glorify God?
How does studying about evolution and learning to regurgitate it fit in with God?
How do fame, self-glorification and high scores based on human standards fit in with God?
That's the gigantic contradiction which I do not comprehend.
