| You are interested in securing a Christian | | | | creative act of God. If one accepts the theory of |
| homeschooling curriculum for your child but all the | | | | evolution, then evolution is part of the creative |
| competing schools and textbooks in the | | | | processes of God. If one accepts the theory of |
| marketplace have you confused. How do you | | | | the Big Bang, it was God who caused the Big |
| sort through the confusion and select the | | | | Bang. |
| curriculum which is right for you and your child? | | | | Thirdly, God has acted particularly and most |
| There are some key factors which should be | | | | profoundly in history by sending God's son, Jesus |
| readily apparent in any Christian based school | | | | Christ into the world to reconcile us to each other |
| program. That is, the textbooks and other | | | | and to God. Christians make no apologies for any |
| material ought to have a Christian worldview. | | | | of these major, bedrock beliefs and see no |
| What exactly is a Christian worldview? | | | | reason to debate, prove, or minimize them. Each |
| Simply stated, a Christian worldview is the lens | | | | of these confessions must be represented in a |
| through which people see and interpret the | | | | curriculum for it to qualify as Christian. God must |
| universe, humans, nature, and events. This view is | | | | be seen as active in history and in the lives of |
| characterized by three primary confessions or | | | | humans. |
| predispositions that are indisputable and firmly | | | | And though it may not be clear to us, God is |
| seared in the minds of those who profess to be | | | | moving all of creation to a predetermined end |
| and in fact are Christians. God exists and seeks to | | | | known only to God. Thus, there is a |
| have a personal relationship with humans is the | | | | purposefulness to our lives and to events in |
| most fundamental of these beliefs. God is not a | | | | history. This is not to say that everything which |
| projection or a watchmaker or a force. God is | | | | happens is God's will for humans can and |
| real and relational and has knowledge of us and | | | | oftentimes do act contrary to God's will. These |
| interacts with us and hears us when we pray. | | | | principles or worldview must be clear and |
| God is creator is the second major proposition. All | | | | unequivocal for a curriculum to be considered |
| that exists came into being as a result of the | | | | Christian. |