THE BIBLE INSTITUTE OF LOS ANGELES
Course of Study The course of study is the outcome of the personal exper ience of the teachers in pastoral, evangelistic, home and foreign missionary and city missionary work, conferences, and other teaching work in many lands, and also of an experience in the training of men and women for Christian work extending over more than a quarter of a century. It embraces the following subjects: I. Doctrinal Study of the Bible The Bible is the only text book of the Bible Institute, but a large number of methods are followed in studying the Bible. The fundamental thing in the teaching of the Bible in the Institute is a thorough course in the doctrinal contents of the entire Bible. This covers two school years. It comprises a careful and thorough study of what the Bible teaches on the great fundamental truths of the Christian faith. While the Authorized Version and the American Standard Revised Ver sion are used in the class room, reference is constantly made to the Hebrew text of the Old Testament, and the Greek text of the New Testament, although the student does not need to have a knowledge of either Hebrew or Greek to master the course. While the course in Bible doctrine covers all the subjects taken up in our best theological seminaries in their courses in SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY, the method of study is entirely different from that usually pursued in theological sem inaries. The doctrine is never stated and then proof texts hunted up to prove the doctrine. The method is rather that pursued in our day in all other branches of scientific study, the INDUCTIVE METHOD. Every passage of Scripture bearing upon the doctrine under discussion is examined and its exact meaning in the light of the context determined, and thus the Bible teaching is ascertained and the results classified in propo sitions that state what is contained, and only what is contained, in the Scriptures that have been studied. The primary aim of the study is to strengthen the faith of the student, to give him an accurate and thorough knowledge of Bible truth and to qualify him to teach or preach the truth contained in the Bible
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