“If we’ve gone through the public education system,” writes Nancy Pearcey, “‘we have been trained to use a language that makes sense of the world without the hypothesis of God.’” She’s quoting Lesslie Newbigin. This looks like another feather in the cap of the homeschooler. But…
Question: If I’ve gone through that system, and I use language that way, how will it be any different for my children schooled at home? I must admit, even as a believer I catch myself trying to sound “neutral” at times–as if (for example) I can just lay out all these other civilizations with their respective gods, and expect it to be self-evident why the Christian God is unique. (I just did it again: “unique” instead of “real.”)
But the Bible teaches that God created the world. We must start from that ground if we’re going to get a true picture of things. Otherwise we start from the hypothesis that He didn’t. There is no neutral ground. There is no God-free language for the Christian.
