When I pick up the paper and read the headlines or watch the evening news, what I read and see only serves to deepen my appreciation for and commitment to a Christian education for America' s children. Events like the recent school shootings in Colorado and elsewhere have caused a great deal of debate within our country over the causes and corollary solutions to the problem of teen violence in our culture. That is because they all begin, for the most part, from the faulty presupposition that man is basically good. If your basic presupposition is faulty, then all subsequent solutions flowing from that line of thought will be off base as well. No amount of gun control legislation, for example, will ever prevent sin-fallen man from committing murder.
Children enter the world with a sin nature.
They are not basically good, or even neutral with respect to right and wrong. We sin because we are born as sinners. We are not simply sinners because we sin. Sin-fallen man, unrestrained by the Spirit of God, is capable of unspeakable acts of evil. Columbine and Kosovo are more recent examples.