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There is some truth in this. I look at my siblings who are decisive and pragmatic, they have less education.
Yeah I have heard this one before. I'd like to think that quote validates me but then I see far more successful people with less education, thriving!"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." —Bertrand Russell
If you have something quite radical, expect to be like Jesus facing the Pharisees. The Pharisees are like the religious academia of the Jewish culture in the day. If it's not too mind-boggling, it's okay, else it's heresy!
There is some truth in this. I look at my siblings who are decisive and pragmatic, they have less education.
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." —Bertrand Russell
Yeah I have heard this one before. I'd like to think that quote validates me but then I see far more successful people with less education, thriving!
I don't think there is anything wrong with education, so long as it is based on the principles of Gods word. A preacher used to say that educating an unsaved person just turns them into a clever devil.
That preacher was a fool.
And your "god's word" is nothing more than men writing things down and claiming that their writing is divine.
Education is the process by which we free ourselves of ignorance and the errors of other men.
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I used to believe generally the same thing you stated here until one day when I was 27 years old God began to reveal Himself to me, and led me to the scriptures which He supernaturally validated to me as His word. Before that, I couldn't understand Gods word, but it began to open up to me and the power of it changed me. I had tried every teaching and religion and philosophy of the world, and none of it changed me, but Gods word changed me. God transformed me into a different person through His word. When the bible talks about being born again, I experienced that. I am a brand new person in Jesus Christ. If you open yourself to what God wants to reveal to you, you will discover the same thing that people of every walk of life for thousands of years have already discovered; that Jesus Christ is alive, and He has the power to save you and transform your life.
OK broDepends what you mean by "thriving" friend.
I don't think there is anything wrong with education, so long as it is based on the principles of Gods word. A preacher used to say that educating an unsaved person just turns them into a clever devil.
Save the preaching friend. Be comfortable with your own beliefs, but don't think others will buy what you are selling.
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Generally, education is good. It's still better to have it vs none.
The challenge is basically to be highly educated but not be cast into its mold because education won't be true against reality all the time and there's a lot of things about reality that is not taken up in education.
OK bro
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-happily married
-retired early and now doing their hobbies
-not spending time debating on Internet forums
-no attitude from 'being educated'
-good quality friends
Some of the things they teach in schools leads people farther away from God, unfortunately. And that is by intelligent design