“Man seems to mistrust everything that is effortless; he can only enjoy, with a good conscience, what he has acquired with toil and trouble; he refuses to have anything as a gift.”
This is why it’s so important for us to teach our students sound doctrine and how it informs scientific thinking. We need Christian people who can use science to its fullest and in its proper place.
We teach math because it truly describes many of the ways our loving God holds the universe together.
The reason required to do math and geometry well is the same reason our minds rightly use when, equipped with the Word of God, we need to think deeply about philosophical and theological issues in our lives.
Each child has been known by God even before birth, and a child will not simply cease to exist when death comes—a child has an eternal soul, which will either be saved or damned eternally.
