A Hypothesis of a Distinctly Christian Approach to Developing Architectural Skills

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In my Bible reading currently, I'm reading a portion of Exodus where God gives architectural commands to Moses. Here, I'm not going to exegete the passage, but instead draw out an application from it. And this application, as the title says, is a hypothesis that I want you, Christian, to test by comparing it to ALL that the Bible says about how man develops skill (regardless of the specific skill). If it perfectly matches (emphasis on "perfectly") what the Bible says about how a man gains skill (architectural skill included), then we have a distinctly Biblical (and therefore, Christian) theory of architectural education. If it doesn't completely match what the Bible says about architectural skill, then keep all in it that is Biblical and discard all in it that is not Biblical, so that we'll, nevertheless, be able to articulate a distinctly Christian view of architectural instruction.

The application and hypothesis I want to suggest here is this: learning architecture from God Himself. We can observe what God has "built" in His creation (Hebrews 3:4) and, by meditation on these works, learn how to build structures ourselves. However, we also have architectural instructions from God, found in the pages of His Written Word, one of these places being the aforementioned passage in Exodus. Lest I be misunderstood, I am NOT proposing here that Christians build the things described to Moses today, for the Old Covenant is done away with (see the Book of Hebrews). Indeed, I'm not proposing that Christians build ANY of the structures God commanded to be built in the Bible, since (to the best of my knowledge) all those instances were for specific contexts which we don't find ourselves in today. Rather, I'm proposing that Christians can meditate on these commands to learn how to build structures that are needed today to carry out God's commands in His Word, applying general architectural principles from these commands to the construction of buildings that we need built today.

This is my hypothesis, o God. Test it by Your Word! Modify it until it perfectly accords with Your Word, so that it may be a truly Christian theory!