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Why is it important for the Christian educator to know his/her answers to the questions asked by metaphysics, epistemology, and axiology?
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Because these are the questions the students are battling with every day. They are looking for answers, and even though their answers are not exactly as mine is, they at least have a direction.
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It displays confidence and an assurance of faith to the student who’s in a formative or often unstable place of belief because of age or life experience. The Christian educator will also be able to best direct students in where to discover the answers to the questions they have related to life and there purpose/existence.
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Students are seeking the answers to what is real and their own existence, about what they can know and what is true, and where their value comes from. They are going to find it somewhere, and it could be the from the world’s ideas, or from the Christian world view. We need to know these answers so that we can be encouraging and guiding students in Truth and knowing that God has created the world and them, and values them deeply.
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Our students are going to ask us questions and the answers they receive could impact them for eternity. We need to be equipped with the answers.
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Christian educators can help shape students’ worldview, equipping them to understand that their value and worth are determined by their Creator, and that our ideas about truth come from the true Word of the One True God. When Christian educators understand these truths, they can then point students to them, and hep them develop a solid foundation in biblical truths that will carry them through life.