Governing Education Biblically

The concept of governing anything Biblically is grounded in the Dominion Mandate given to us in Genesis 1:28 NLT:

“Then God blessed them and said, ‘Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and govern it. Reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the animals that scurry along the ground.’”

Noah Webster gives us insight into the Biblical understanding of “govern” in his 1828 Dictionary as he captured our language at the height of when America reasoned Biblically:

GOV’ERNMENT, noun Direction; regulation. These precepts will serve for the government of our conduct.

1. Control; restraint. Men are apt to neglect the government of their temper and passions.

2. The exercise of authority; direction and restraint exercised over the actions of men in communities, societies or states; the administration of public affairs, according to established constitution, laws and usages, or by arbitrary edicts. Prussia rose to importance under the government of Frederick II.

3. The exercise of authority by a parent or householder. Children are often ruined by a neglect of government in parents.

Let family government be like that of our heavenly Father, mild, gentle and affectionate.

We see in the etymology, that government is rooted in “our conduct” and this is confirmed in the first definition as affecting our temper and passions.

Definition 3 mentions family government which is a foreign concept to most Americans but this is our Heritage of Liberty that has been stolen from us through two centuries now of allowing humanists/communists/marxists to take over our Christian schools, universities and seminaries. This is reflected in the PEERS test and Barna polls. Both have concluded that most (80-90 %) Christians do not have a Biblical Worldview.

To govern ourselves in the Education of our children, let’s start again with the 1828 Dictionary:

EDUCA’TION, noun [Latin educatio.] The bringing up, as of a child, instruction; formation of manners. education comprehends all that series of instruction and discipline which is intended to enlighten the understanding, correct the temper, and form the manners and habits of youth, and fit them for usefulness in their future stations. To give children a good education in manners, arts and science, is important; to give them a religious education is indispensable; and an immense responsibility rests on parents and guardians who neglect these duties.

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Governing Education Biblically,

Dr. Brenda MacMenamin

Teaching His Story & the Biblical Art of Learning

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Constitutional Conversations A2S2C2 Treaties 

He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur… ~A2S2C2

CC Pinckney said “The Senate, from the smallness of its numbers, from the equality of power which each state has in it, from the length of time for which its members are elected… joined with the president, who is the federal head of the United States, form together a body in whom can be best and most safely vested the diplomatic power of the Union.”(1)

John Jay clarified, “The duration prescribed is such as we give them an opportunity of greatly extending their political information, and of rendering their accumulating experience more and more beneficial to their country…

“Secrecy and immediate dispatch are sometimes requisite. There are cases where the most useful intelligence may be obtained, if the persons possessing it can be relieved from apprehensions of discovery. There are many who would rely on the secrecy of the President, but who would not confide in that of the Senate, and still less in that of a large popular assembly. The convention have done well, therefore, in so disposing of the power of making treaties that although the President must, in forming them, act by the advice and consent of the Senate, yet he will be able to manage the business of intelligence in such a manner as prudence may suggest.

“Thus we see that the Constitution provides that our negotiations for treaties shall have every advantage which can be derived from talents, information, integrity, and deliberate investigations, on the one hand, and from secrecy and dispatch on the other.

“It will not be in the power of the President, and Senate to make treaties by which they and their families and estates will not be equally bound and affected with the rest of the community; and, having no private interests distinct from that of the nation, they will be under no temptation to neglect the latter.” (2)

O God, help us get back to You and Your ways. Help us discern the times and know what to do. In Jesus’ Name we pray, Amen.

(1) Elliot, 4: 281.

(2) Federalist papers, number 64

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“It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.” Galatians 5:1 NIV

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