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Why is what you believe about creation important to your role as a Christian educator?
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Creation is important to me as a Christian educator because it is the foundation of God’s Word.
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It is an issue of Scriptural authority and reliability. As we are integrating our Christian worldview into the curriculum, we cannot dismiss whole sections of the Bible as untrustworthy, then accept other sections as trustworthy, expecting our students not to do the same.
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We must be anchored in God’s story to teach God’s story.
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If I believe that humans and the world are created and designed with a purpose, the way I live and treat others will be affected.
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It is important, no matter what subject one teaches, that a Christian teacher believes in God as creator because that affects how we treat and think about our students. As a math teacher, I usually talk to my students at the beginning of the year about how math is a wonderful example of how we can observe God’s creation…not only can we use math to understand how our universe work and make predictions of how nature behaves, but God also created us with the ability to make and understand these discoveries. Believing in God as creator is also important because I realize that each of my students is created in His image, that none is an accident of nature. With this viewpoint, I teach with the knowledge that each student has the capacity to learn, each has their own unique talents, and each, with proper support, can be successful.
