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The Bible cannot be treated merely as one subject among others, but must be the foundational presupposition of every subject, because it alone gives meaning, coherence, and unity to all knowledge: it does not replace empirical study, but without first submitting to God’s Word, no fact can be truly understood, since apart from God all facts become brute, meaningless, and ultimately dissolve into chance and nothingness. To exclude Scripture is therefore not neutrality but rebellion, repeating the sin of Eve by seeking knowledge apart from God and making man the final authority. History, law, science, mathematics, chronology, and every discipline presuppose order, rationality, and truth realities that only exist because all things were created and governed by the God of Scripture. Humanistic autonomy inevitably leads to relativism, anarchy, and cultural decay, as seen wherever God’s Word is removed from education and public life. The Bible must be taught directly as God’s binding command-word, not as inspirational literature, and it must also govern every field of study, shaping the curriculum’s direction and purpose. Since Christ alone is King and Lord, His Word alone is law, and any education that does not begin with the fear of the Lord becomes “vain babbling,” producing not knowledge but confusion and death. Apart from the God of Scripture there is no unified universe, no curriculum, and finally no knowledge at all only chance whereas in Him all truth, learning, and life hold together.