What Really Matters by Clinton A. Macomber
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Daniel 1:1-6
The Importance of a Biblical Education
An academic education may be more important than we realize, as Americans are becoming more illiterate. This makes it more difficult to effectively and inoffensively communicate the Word of God. We go about our tasks totally oblivious to the methods that would make them safer, easier, and quicker.
It once was that if there was a chance that person might become a king or ruler, he would enter a very intensive and long course of study. Men like Moses spent 40 years in training to become the King of Egypt. Esther had to spend three years before she could even appear before the king.
Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah were also enrolled in such a program. Nebuchadnezzar, the emperor, took the most educated students from Judah and had them continue their studies in Babylon. Their scholastic ability had a direct bearing on whether they would be accepted into this program or suffer an early death. All distractions were removed from these students. Even their food preparation was done for them.
The results of such thorough and extended studies are evident from the writings of the past. There was a careful choice of words and a careful crafting of sentences that made them a work of art. Our King James Version is an example. Its carefully constructed word combinations resulted in a most poetic and exacting translation of the Word of God. Today such diligence is almost extinct. Best selling writers do not verify their statements, nor do they seek to word them in a careful manner.
The importance of concentration on the task at hand has been lost with the arrival of the phonograph. Radio, reel to reels, television, cassettes, compact disks, and videos have even farther removed one’s chances to think
