Elledge and Modern Education

It is indeed sad, that in this day and age, America's College Students "want" an education that has the Divine removed from religion, the morality removed from Ethics, and the act of judgment removed from the process of independent thinking!

In Biblical Traditions, our Curriculum II Sequence is receiving one aspect of a complete liberal arts education. As implied by the title, the topic of study is The Bible, the oldest and most revered book in Western Civilization. Indeed, the western world is so dependant and grateful to the Judeo-Christian tradition that the Bible was the first book ever printed upon the advent of the invention of the printing press. All scholars who have received a comprehensive liberal arts education are familiar with the Bible, and this remarkable book sells millions of copies yearly, despite its venerable age, measurable in millennia. It is therefore understandable that we study the bible in a challenging liberal arts program at a Lutheran school.

Wait, something’s wrong here! I can tell you about the influence of “the Deity” or YAH-WHEH in the lives of the Hebrew people. I can describe a city as it was set up in biblical times from an archeological perspective. I can tell you how every type of food was prepared, except for fish. No one seems to know how Moses cooked his fish. Yet while attending a Lutheran College, I cannot say that I am guided towards or even meant to growing in my faith. If this is the case, that more value is placed in the knowledge of science and history than the development of the human being in a mental and spiritual context, why am I being educated?