Letter: Public school students need Bible education

Editor:

Praying is a habit/skill as much as the three R’s (“Don’t force Bible on public schools,” Reading Eagle, June 14). The truth is revealed as we develop intellectually, emotionally, physically and spiritually.

Many parents missed biblical education, too, and some parents are incapacitated due to health issues. Public education is about explanations and understanding. John 15:5 says:, “I am the vine; you are the branches. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine.”

An inattentive student, I thought God/judgment was only revealed at the time of death, which to a child seems a long way off. I had no understanding that God wanted to live in me right now. My decisions could have been better had I been taught the Bible with my peers. At age 41, the truth was understood and my potential is now a vessel for God to use. A teacher cannot force Christian salvation on anyone. Only the human heart has the capacity to appreciate God’s love and sacrifice.

Our only hope as a nation is for the Ten Commandments to reenter the public classroom.

Dawn Koffke Houser

Hamburg