Most of Gods chosen Old and New testaments,would not be the popular choice.
A Shepard boy,became King David,a harlot in the bloodline of Christ.
A fisherman as Chief Apostle.
Paul was highly educated in false doctrine, a cruel man transformed to write much of the New Testament.
God never picked the self righteous sheltered people.
He picked men and women that would give him glory.
He did not pick people to educated to see beyond themselves.
Reminds me of a lot of people today.
Does having a fine university and seminary education make a pastor a “self-righteous sheltered person”?
Do uneducated pastors give more glory to God than Pastors who recognized the fact that the call to the Christian ministry includes the call to get an excellent education, and who were obedient to God and got that education?
Paul was NOT highly educated in false doctrine—he was highly educated in the Old Testament, ancient literature, philosophy, etc., and upon his conversion to Christianity, The Holy Spirit used Paul and his knowledge so mightily that he was accused of turning the world upside down!
When God calls a man to be a physician today, that calling includes getting at least eight years of post-high school education. Indeed, when God calls any man to any profession, that calling includes getting the education required for that profession.
If God had called a bunch of ignorant fishermen to translate the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek Scriptures, we would not have any Bibles in English, German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, or any other contemporary language.
God calls and uses whom He chooses to get the job done—and some jobs require an extensive education.
Is your primary care physician “too educated” to “see beyond” herself/himself? Was your primary care physician’s education detrimental or necessary to enable her/him to be a physician? Does your pastor have less education than your primary care physician? One wrong prescription could cost you only your temporal life, but one wrong doctrine could be so fatal that it will cost you your eternal life.
If God had called a bunch of ignorant fishermen to teach chemistry, physics, biology, and all of the other physical and life sciences in our colleges and universities, your primary care physician would have less ability to care for you than would a witchdoctor from the Belgian Congo!
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