What Really Matters by Clinton A. Macomber

• Title Page
• Introduction
• General Overview
• Daniel 1:1-6
  • The Importance of a Biblical Education
  • Biblical Concept of Education
  • Clippings
  • Did You Know?
  • Daily Devotional Guide
  • Word Find Puzzle
• Daniel 1:7-21
• Daniel 2
• Daniel 3
• Daniel 4
• Daniel 5
• Daniel 6
• Daniel 7
• Daniel 8
• Daniel 9
• Daniel 10
• Daniel 11
• Daniel 12

ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.

To become Christ-like, we must become educated and well learned.

Luke 2:52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.

Clippings

About Education

“Greek philosophers live today in the influence they have had on Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. The ninth-century translation of Aristotle’s scientific and metaphysical works into Arabic compelled Moslem thinkers to reconcile Greek philosophy with Moslem doctrine. Aristotle’s influence on Hebrew scholars in the twelfth century had the same effect on Judaism, as Ibn David and Moses Maimonides led in a reconciliation. Aristotle’s works in Latin brought a synthesis between Greek philosophy and Christianity in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Europe.

“Wherever philosophy touches belief, it leaves an indelible print. Where scholars combine it with Scripture, it becomes a “microbe with ink stains on its feet,” marring and defacing Scripture. By itself, divorced from the Greek philosophy of the world into which it was born, God’s Word came to holy men. By itself, separate from that philosophy in every generation, God’s Word must remain. Scripture and philosophy are opposites: truth and theory, reality and supposition. Any effort to combine Scripture’s truth with philosophy’s theories renders the truth less definite without making the theories more distinct.”¹

God Controls the Outcome

“Material fortifications and material weapons have their use. Even David, notwithstanding his stalwart faith in God, did not confront the Philistine without his sling. Bars and ramparts, shield and sword, may be regarded as instruments by means of which faith exercises an active obedience; they are not

¹V. Hurley. Speaker’s Sourcebook of New Illustrations. electronic ed. Dallas: Word Publishers, 2000, c1995. Page 232.