Christian Education and Culture

Wisdom is a great treasure for man. "Happy is the man that findeth wisdom and the man that geteth understanding" (Prov. 3:13). "Wisdom is better than rubies, and all things that may be desired are not to be compared to it" (Prov. 8:11).

For Christian wisdom, the simple is closer to the knowledge of the things of God. The Beatitudes say: "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven" (Matt. 5:3),

Christian education requires good deeds, the application of the knowledge of the faith into the everyday life: "What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? . . . as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also" (James 2:14, 26). "Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? Let him show out of a good conversation his works of meekness of wisdom" (James 3:13). "Even so faith, if it hath no work, is dead, being alone" (James 2:17). "As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in Him" (Col. 2:6). "Not everyone that say unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven ..." (Matt. 7:21).

We are asked to be aware of false teaching: "Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines" (Heb. 13:9). And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with entangling words" (Col. 2:4). The false teaching refers to the philosophies of this world. The search for God, man being in error, led him to create different philosophical thoughts about God. This knowledge is accomplished only by the descending of God to bring that knowledge of Him to us. This is the incarnation of God, the Lord Jesus Christ. For the same purpose we are in need to be told of the true knowledge: "And Philip ran thither to him and heard him read the Prophet Isaiah, and said: do you understand what you read?" (Acts. 8:30).

Christian education has an important place among other disciplines because every man has the right and the need to know God, which is essential for his existence, from the early years of his life. The longing for God is innate in man. Because of this, we should create the necessary conditions for its actualization.

Christian culture has its source in the Holy Scriptures, bringing the

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