If anything is going to save our country from utter chaos … it will be home schooling and similar grassroots movements, rather than the bewilderingly slow-to-die delusion that politicians in power are really able or even willing to support our family life and values.

Mary Kay Clark – CATHOLIC HOME SCHOOLING (p74)

With that in mind, let’s dive in to see where in the Bible we can find sound justification for homeschooling:

The first example of homeschooling in the Bible is the example provided by the perfect teacher, God himself, who condescended to fellowship with the first man, Adam, and to actually teach him, in the classroom of Paradise, how he should walk in a manner pleasing and acceptable to Almighty God.

After Adam, Clark continues, homeschooling can also be seen in the story of Cain and Able. God having been pleased by Abel’s sacrifice instead of Cain’s shows that Adam and Eve had taught their kids about sacrifices to God–and, more specifically, the necessity of blood atonement sacrifice, which Cain didn’t think was necessary.

This then tells us the importance of worshiping God well, “with reverence, dignity, and holiness of mind, heart, and body” so they don’t grow up like Cain.

Genesis 18 with Abraham then illustrates a more explicit example of homeschooling:

Gen 18:17-19
17 The Lord said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do, 18 seeing that Abraham shall become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall bless themselves by him?[d] 19 No, for I have chosen[e] him, that he may charge his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice; so that the Lord may bring to Abraham what he has promised him.”

That is a powerful passage for many reasons because it teaches us the centrality of home schooling. God basically says to Abraham, “I have a plan for the world. You are a part of that plan. Through the seed that I have promised you will come the Messias and the blessings for many nations. And I can bring this salvation about because I know that you are going to play your necessary, instrumental part by teaching your children everything that I have taught you.”

Then we have Moses in Exodus:

Exodus 12:26 (but mainly all of Exodus Chapter 12)
26 And when your children say to you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’ 27 you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of the Lord’s passover, for he passed over the houses of the people of Israel in Egypt, when he slew the Egyptians but spared our houses.’” And the people bowed their heads and worshiped.

In other words, as God gives them their great Passover, he reminds them to tell their children all about the great feast every year when they undoubtedly ask why things are done the way they’re done.

This means we must teach our kids about the Mass: what it’s about and how they must participate (incl. Adoration) just like the Jews were told to teach their kids.

Deuteronomy 6:1-7
“Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the ordinances which the Lord your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it; 2 that you may fear the Lord your God, you and your son and your son’s son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged. 3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them; that it may go well with you, and that you may multiply greatly, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

4 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord;[a] 5 and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. 6 And these words which I command you this day shall be upon your heart; 7 and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

When you get up in the morning, join them in an act of family worship. Make a Morning Offering together as a family. Open the Bible, fathers, and teach your children the Bible on a daily basis. Teach them to sing the Psalms…. Be a spiritual director to your child. Know the state of their hearts. Do not allow them to go for days while wondering what is going on with them spiritually.

Teaching them all this Truth, Goodness, and Beauty will help ensure they won’t sneer at sacred things and their socialization will NOT consist of “forming their minds and hearts to take on the same values” of our pagan society.

The following passages add more ammo to your mandate to educate your children, especially in your faith:

• Do not allow yourselves to be negatively influenced by worldly standards

Leviticus 20:22-26
22 “You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my ordinances, and do them; that the land where I am bringing you to dwell may not vomit you out. 23 And you shall not walk in the customs of the nation which I am casting out before you; for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them. 24 But I have said to you, ‘You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey.’ I am the Lord your God, who have separated you from the peoples. 25 You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean; you shall not make yourselves abominable by beast or by bird or by anything with which the ground teems, which I have set apart for you to hold unclean. 26 You shall be holy to me; for I the Lord am holy, and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be mine.

• Do not allow yourselves to be influenced by non-believers

2 Corinthians: 6:14-7:1
14 Do not be mismated with unbelievers. For what partnership have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? 15 What accord has Christ with Be′lial?[a] Or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever? 16 What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said,

“I will live in them and move among them,
and I will be their God,
and they shall be my people.
17 Therefore come out from them,
and be separate from them, says the Lord,
and touch nothing unclean;
then I will welcome you,
18 and I will be a father to you,
and you shall be my sons and daughters,
says the Lord Almighty.”

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1 Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, and make holiness perfect in the fear of God.

Home schooling is a much more efficient and time-saving way to [teaching our children the faith]. If you do it yourself, you know it is being done correctly. Of course, this points out the necessity of knowing the Faith ourselves.

Mary Kay Clark – Catholic Home Schooling (p82)

Your children may not have the Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph as their instructors (at least not directly) to teach them the Faith without errors, but they have YOU, so it must be you who steps up to the plate to educate them rather than some well-intentioned, but potentially erroneous, individual.

Don’t forget that even Jesus “homeschooled” his apostles 24/7, too! And as a result, “they were able to conquer their world, because they knew the Faith intimately.”