School has been out for the Bryan kids for 12 days. School has been out for me… well, let’s not bother calculating that. Thinking back to the school days and all the things we “learned,” how many of those things need to be unlearned? For instance:
Do you remember the Food Pyramid? Many of us grew up with this dietary essential, telling us that we needed the six essential food groups, and we would do well with 6-11 servings of carbs every day. The Food Pyramid has been replaced with MyPlate. Now, there are only five categories: fruits, veggies, grains, protein, and dairy. The Food Pyramid was first introduced in 1943. Many adaptations were made along the way until 2011 when the USDA introduced MyPlate, a simple graphic of a plate divided into four sections with a small circle labeled “dairy” off to the side. This is supposed to be simpler and more accurate, replacing outdated nutritional information.
While we are talking about nutrition, the American Heart Association keeps changing their minds about eggs. One decade, eggs are good for you. The next, they are killers. The current position is that eggs are good for you. Better eat a bunch while you can before they change their minds! I don’t remember what we were taught on the subject in school. After 12 years, though, I’m sure the message changed at least once.
Here’s another fallacy we were taught in school. For those in my generation and
older, you remember when calculators were banned like they were some evil, wicked device. It wasn’t until chemistry that you purchased a Texas Instrument’s scientific calculator. Even then, you were told by teachers, “You won’t always have a calculator in your pocket!” Guess they got that wrong. The calculator app on my phone has a scientific mode as well as a metric converter – another thing I remember being taught in school. The standard measurements were going out the window and soon, the USA would all be metric. And here we are today, still using standard.
We were also taught that the tongue tastes different things in different places on the tongue. It doesn’t. We were taught that you can see the Great Wall of China from the moon. You can’t. Cursive writing is the writing of the adult world. It’s not and is seldom even taught today. Swallowed chewing gum will stay in your stomach for seven years. It doesn’t and passes through the intestines like anything else. You should take out school loans to go to the best colleges and get the best education possible. You will make plenty of money once you’re out of college to pay off those loans. That is definitely anything but true. And, finally, your school record will haunt you for the rest of your life because it’s your permanent record. It’s not and it doesn’t.
I don’t believe anyone purposefully tried to steer us wrong. Teachers weren’t sitting in the teacher’s workroom devising mischievous plans to trick their students, hoping we would go through life repeating things that were wrong while they snickered at our gullibility. The “truths” we were taught were based on the best information at the time. Teachers tried hard, believing they were doing right. In time, they were just as surprised as we were to learn things differently.
Though worldly ideas and “truths” may change, the truth of God’s Word never changes. For the truth of God’s Word to change, God would have to change. His nature would have to change and that’s never going to happen.
Revelation 3:7 says, “And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth.” As judgment is about to fall in Revelation 19, verse 11 says, “And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.”
God tells us in Malachi 3:6, “For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.” Since His attributes and nature never change, God is ALWAYS truth, therefore, His WORD is always truth and that truth “endureth forever.” (Psalm 117:2)
There will never come a time where better or more current information will rectify some previous Biblical error. What God’s Word taught 2,000 years ago will be the same, valid truths needing to be taught 2,000 years from now, should the Lord tarry.
Let the magnificence of this truth overwhelm us today!
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