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"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts." Harry S. Truman

is a temptation Jesus rejected, not because it was dangerous, but because it was trivial compared with his mission. C. S. Lewis had it right: 'If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next. the Apostles themselves, who set on foot the conversion of the Roman Empire, the great men who built up the Middle Ages, the English evangelicals who abolished the slave trade, all left their mark on earth, precisely because their minds were occupied with Heaven. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this one. Aim at Heaven and you will get earth 'thrown in.' Aim at earth and you will get neither.' Our eyes should be lifted skyward--toward the company of heaven. The time has come for believers to focus on the next world, not just the next election cycle." Cal Thomas, Newsweek, March 29, 1999, Page 60.

"One measure of the effectiveness of any teacher is the rate at which he makes himself unnecessary to his pupils" Dr. C.B. Eavey

"C. S. Lewis wrote in his essay 'The Weight of Glory,' about what he called 'the overwhelming possibilities' of eternity, he concluded: 'There are no ordinary people. you have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry , snub, and exploit--immortal horrors or everlasting splendours" C. S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory, (San Francisco: Harper 2001) as quoted in A Life God Rewards, by Bruce Wilkinson ( Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah 2002).

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(2.1)The mud ball floated in darkness. God created day, night and time, the first day. The Second day he extracted the water from the mud and made dirt and separated the sea from the land and said it was good. The next day he formed a garden as large as the World itself. On the fourth day he created the Sun, Moon and galaxies of stars as part of the Glory of God [Romans 1:20]. We see the Sun as necessary for light, but God is so far above our thoughts [Isaiah 55:8-9] He doesn't need light holders...He is Light! [1 John 1:5] On the Sixth Day He made a man from the mud but withheld his approval until woman walked on His sod at dusk. On the seventh day God rested from creating the World and the universe around it. Can you imagine the satisfaction on his face as he sipped tea from the banisters of heaven and viewed his creation?

I will take a verb over a noun anytime--
Wm. Paul Young

God's University started not long after this with God walking in the garden talking with them every evening. After the fall God came showing Adam and Eve how to make clothes, probably how to start a fire for sacrifices.

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God did not stay in heaven, but evening-by-evening God walked with his toes in the same grass with man and woman [with no bellybuttons. Which came first, the chicken or egg? Man and woman came before the baby. The chicken and rooster came before the egg.] Can you imagine what God talked to them about? And then Man made a choice to do what he wanted to do and disobey God. Man ate fruit God asked him not to eat. Adam and Eve chose double-breasted leaves suit over God's clothing. God's holiness cannot live with sin and so God extracted himself from sinful man's presence, but before he left God continued to teach Adam and Eve in his classroom. He showed them how to make wool suits (clothes from sheep) and to make a pleasing sacrifice and I imagine a hundred things your parents taught you. Then God walked slowly back into the heavens, God's holy nature required separation from sin. How many times did Adam and Eve feel God left them, when they not God, did the leaving?

I AM -- Jesus

We meet God with his sleeves rolled up working. In the Beginning God created. But part of His time, if that is the right word for an eternal God was to talk and teach Adam and Eve. This hasn't changed over the millennia. The God of Eternity in his good time walked into time and gave us his Word in written record we normally call The Book or Bible.

God talked eyeball to eyeball with Adam. God chiseled the commands on rock tablets. Isaiah probably wrote with stylus on skins and rolled His words just like the Dead Sea Scrolls. Paul may have written in codex (book) format. But today we can see God enjoying His Word moving into the lives and hearts of men and women. 2 Timothy 3:16, 2 Peter 1:21.

"Education is what is left after what we have learned is forgotten." B.F. Skinner

God not only thinks, and writes, but God acts. We meet God creating and God realized his love, men and women had no hope. It would be like having children guaranteed to die of an illness you could prevent. You most certainly would do anything including giving your life to make your children's lives long and successful. And that is exactly what God did: he sent his Son to die so we could live with him forever. John 3:14-17.

God is a verb -- Buckminister Fuller

We evaluate God by who we are. If we had billions of dollars we would buy things for ourselves and those we love. But God has more money and resources than this, and what God wanted was to love you and me and for us to love him in return. We call this worship. God loves us so much he gave his Son, Jesus. This short comparison of the nature of God and man shows how self-centric, selfish and sinful we are.

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Again, God walked in the dirt, but this time as a man [Matthew 1:23]. He hurt just like other men hurt. He felt every pain and temptation just like every other person. [1 Corinthians 10:13] He felt the humiliation of the scorn and the pain of the cross just like other men would feel pain. Why did he do this, because God is Love. God doesn't just love, God is Love! [1 John 4:16] God can do anything he wants, and he wants to love us. He wanted to save us from the "illness" of sin that will kill us. God wants to walk and talk with us for eternity. In the Garden God walked in the evening, in Eternity we will be with him all the time forever.

Love is a verb -- Toby Mack

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Romans 1: 20 NASB, "For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse." God's Universe then is God's University.

"If I tell you only part of the evidence and you believe it, you have been indoctrinated. If I tell you all the evidence and you make a decision, then you have been taught." Mike Riddle

God created a cosmos that even the rocks can cry out. [Luke 19:40, "And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out."] As our eyes view the heavens, flowers and the body of animal and man they demand a creator. [Psalm 19:1, "The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his handiwork."]

Christian Education is the process of showing everything that exists from the reason the Atom holds together to life to eternal life, these are topics that fit in Christian Education. They are things that God may have discussed with Adam and Eve in the Garden. [Colossians 1:16-17, "For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: 17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist."]

Occasionally, we imagine heaven as place where we will be sitting bored, harping along on a cloud. I don't think so. I believe God is so majestic and mighty in power; God will need an eternity to share the half of his infinity to us finite beings just like he began in the Garden to Adam and Eve. God's University then is Earth and his creation. His students are each person in humanity. Some fail and some pass. Those that choose to accept his greatness, His gift of Eternal life [Romans 6:23] and accept his grace [Ephesians 2:8-9] will live with him forever. These students will pass. Not because we deserve it, but because God is working in us and on us. God wants us to pass his University course. [Luke 19:10]