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COURSE OBJECTIVES
LORAL DOUGLAS WOOSLEY BETHANY COLLEGES
“Equipping the Youth for Christian Leadership”
LORAL DOUGLAS WOOSLEY BETHANY COLLEGES
BBCEMFI
COURSE SYLLABUS
DOCTRINE OF GOD, THE SON, AND THE BIBLE
BD12
Bible (KJV); Willmington’s Guide to the Bible by Dr. Harold L. Willmington (Particular Doctrine Topics Only); Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries; Thayer’s
Greek Definition
2nd Semester SY 2019 – 2020
3 units
2 Hours
It deals with the study of one of the major doctrines of the Holy Scriptures particularly about the existence of God and His nature, the deity of Jesus Christ, and
the infallibility of the Bible
Attendance, Class Performance, Written works, and Major Exams
1. Be aware of the various beliefs and arguments concerning God.
2. Understand the nature and attributes of God.
3. Gain the right perception that the Lord Jesus Christ is God.
4. Appreciate the love of Christ to us by understanding various aspects concerning His deity and humanity.
5. Understand how the Bible – the Word of God came to us.
6. Affirm the genuineness, credibility, veracity, and divine authority and inspiration of the Bible.
Week Intended Learning Content Learning Activities Course Resources Assessment Tasks
Outcomes

1 At the end of this Module, the Lesson 1: Engage Basic Reading • Self-
learners should be able to: assessment
The Existence of God • Lecture • Bible (KJV)
• Participation
1. Differentiate the various • Views concerning God • Participative and • Willmington’s Guide to the Bible by Dr. Harold L. Willmington
• The necessity of the collaborative learning • Essay
theories and philosophical (Doctrine of the Trinity)
arguments concerning God existence of God

Explore
Extended Reading
• View a survey made
among Christians • Barna, George (2003). Think Like Jesus (Does God Really Exist? -
concerning Biblical pages 57-71)
Worldview
Dictionaries
• See faith’s vital part in a
Christian’s life • Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries
• Thayer’s Greek Definition
Apply

• Discuss the result if we

do not have a Biblical
Worldview
• Weigh the impact why
thinking like the world
is problematic
Week Intended Learning Content Learning Activities Course Resources Assessment Tasks
Outcomes

2 At the end of this Module, the Lesson 2: Engage Basic Reading • Self-
learners should be able to: assessment
Who is God? • Lecture • Bible (KJV)
• Participation
1. Know and understand the • Definition of God • Participative and • Willmington’s Guide to the Bible by Dr. Harold L. Willmington
different names of God and its • Names of God collaborative learning (Doctrine of the Trinity)
meaning
Explore
Extended Reading
• Examine if God would
agree with your • Robert Lightner, The God of the Bible, An Introduction to the
definition of Who He is Doctrine of God (Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, 1973) page 107

Apply Electronic Materials/Online Sources

• Define who God is in • https://www.blueletterbible.org/study/misc/name_god.cf

your life m
• Reflect on the
significance of the
names of God Dictionaries
• Manifest the authority
• Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries
and power the names
• Thayer’s Greek Definition
of God carry
Week Intended Learning
Outcomes
3 At the end of this Module, the
learners should be able to:
1. Be aware of God’s nature
and be able to identify His
attributes
Content Learning Activities Course Resources Assessment Tasks
Lesson 3: Engage Basic Reading • Self-
assessment
The nature and attributes of • Lecture • Bible (KJV)
• Participation
God • Participative and • Willmington’s Guide to the Bible by Dr. Harold L. Willmington
• 4 natures of God collaborative learning • Essay
(Doctrine of the Trinity)
• Proposed illustration
and Old Testament
passages concerning Explore
Extended Reading
Trinity (one of the • Consider God’s essence,
natures of God) goodness, and • Barna, George (2003). Think Like Jesus (What is the Character and
• God’s attributes that greatness Nature of God? – pages 73-84)
only belongs to Him • Discuss why God’s
• God’s attributes that He nature and attributes
imparts to people Dictionaries
matter
• Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries
Apply • Thayer’s Greek Definition
• Re-orient ourselves
how we treat the
intangible even if we
live in a world where in
which the tangible gets
our attention
Week Intended Learning Content Learning Activities Course Resources Assessment Tasks
Outcomes

4 At the end of this Module, the Lesson 4: Engage Basic Reading • Self-
learners should be able to: assessment
The Godhead • Lecture • Bible (KJV)
• Participation
1. Explain the right perception • False views concerning • Participative and • Willmington’s Guide to the Bible by Dr. Harold L. Willmington
Trinity collaborative learning • Examination
of the characteristics of the (Doctrine of the Trinity)
Triune God • Correct view of Trinity
• Proposed illustration
Explore
demonstrating Trinity Extended Reading
• Old Testament passages • Study the concept of
regarding Trinity Trinity • Barna, George (2003). Think Like Jesus (What is the Character and
• A scriptural summary of • Affirm God’s divine Nature of God? – pages 85-87)
the Trinity essence
Dictionaries

• Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries

Apply
• Thayer’s Greek Definition
• Be able to draw a
properly proposed
illustration of the
Godhead
• Think about God’s
nature and allow Him to
work within our
thoughts, words, and
actions
• Grasp God’s nature that
will result to grateful
acceptance of His love
Week Intended Learning
Outcomes
5 At the end of this Module, the Lesson 5:
learners should be able to:
The Deity and Preexistence of
1. Gain the right Jesus Christ
perception that Jesus
Christ is God
2. Gain a better
understanding and
knowledge of the
doctrines concerning
the Lord Jesus Christ
Week
6
Content
Engage
• The fact of His divine
existence
• The activities of the
divine preexistent Explore
Christ
• The Old Testament
Ministry of Jesus Christ
Apply
Learning Activities Course Resources Assessment Tasks
Basic Reading • Self-
assessment
• Lecture • Bible (KJV)
• Participation
• Participative and • Willmington’s Guide to the Bible by Dr. Harold L. Willmington
collaborative learning (Doctrine of the Son)
Extended Reading
• Evaluate various
religious perspective on • Cambridge Companion to Jesus by Markus N.A. Bockmuehl (2001)
Jesus Christ • The Historical Christ and the Jesus of faith by C. Stephen Evans
• Look for facts and (1996)
activities of the • The Bible Knowledge Commentary by John F. Walvoord, Roy B. Zuck
preexistent Christ (1983)
Dictionaries
• Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries
• Realize that the • Thayer’s Greek Definition
purpose of life here on
Earth and his eternal
destiny afterwards
depends completely
upon his personal
relationship with Jesus
Christ
• Act with the motivation
based on biblical
standards and
principles that you
consciously identified
Prelim Examination
Lessons 1-5
90 Items
Week Intended Learning
Outcomes
7 At the end of this Module, the Lesson 6:
learners should be able to:
The Incarnation of Jesus Christ
1. Understand what
incarnation is
2. See the importance of
the virgin birth of
Jesus Christ
3. Explain both the deity
and humanity of Jesus
Christ
Content Learning Activities Course Resources Assessment Tasks
Engage Basic Reading • Self-
assessment
• Lecture • Bible (KJV)
• Participation
• The virgin birth • Participative and • Willmington’s Guide to the Bible by Dr. Harold L. Willmington
incarnation of Jesus collaborative learning • Essay
(Doctrine of the Son)
Christ
• The true view of
Explore
incarnation
Excerpt
• The miracles involved in • Take account of various
incarnation • Charles Hodge, as quoted by Charles Baker, A Dispensational
false views concerning
• The perpetuity of incarnation Theology, p. 300
incarnation • Identify the reasons for
• The prophecies Dictionaries
the virgin birth
concerning the incarnation • Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries
incarnation
• Thayer’s Greek Definition
• The reasons for
incarnation Apply
• Be assured that the
miracle of the virgin
birth is the conception
of Christ’s earthly body
• Rest on the two natures
present (organically and
indissolubly united) in
the person of Jesus
Christ
Week Intended Learning Content Learning Activities Course Resources Assessment Tasks
Outcomes

8 At the end of this Module, the Lessons 7 and 8: Engage Basic Reading • Self-
learners should be able to: assessment
The Deity and Humanity of • Lecture • Bible (KJV)
• Participation
1. Understand that Christ Jesus Christ • Participative and • Willmington’s Guide to the Bible by Dr. Harold L. Willmington
• The Deity of Jesus Christ collaborative learning • Oral
did not sin while He (Doctrine of the Son)
• The Impeccability of Presentation
was on this earth and
Jesus Christ
that He as well could Explore
• The Earthly ministry of Excerpt
not sin.
Jesus Christ • Identify scriptural
2. Be conscious of the • The Character of Jesus • Charles Hodge, as quoted by Dr. John Walvoord, Jesus Christ our
passages establishing
doctrine of Kenosis – Christ Christ’s deity Lord, p. 31
one of the profound • The Biographers of • Consider the • W.E. Best, Studies in the Person and Work of Jesus Christ, p. 3
theological passage in Jesus Christ characteristics of Jesus • J. Vernon McGee, Probing through Philippians, p. 36
the Bible • The Kenosis of Jesus Christ
Christ • Recognize the three Dictionaries
3. Be familiar with the
• The Office of Jesus great offices created by
Biblical names and • Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries
Christ God to meet the
titles of Jesus Christ • Thayer’s Greek Definition
spiritual and material
needs of people

Apply

• Be able to explain the

doctrine of Kenosis
• Ascribe all honour,
divine attributes, and
worship to Jesus Christ
because He is God
• Be familiar for the most
important events of
Jesus Christ’s life on
Earth
Week Intended Learning
Outcomes
9 At the end of this Module, the
learners should be able to:
1. Observe the Jewish
Calendar
2. Determine the correct
view of the death of
Jesus Christ
3. See the results of His
death on the Cross
Content
Lesson 9: Engage
The Death of Jesus Christ
• The awesomeness of it
• The scope of it
• Old Testament
examples of it
Explore
• The importance of it
• The false theories
concerning it
• The substitutional (and
orthodox) theory
• The results from it
Apply
Learning Activities Course Resources Assessment Tasks
Basic Reading • Self-
assessment
• Lecture • Bible (KJV)
• Participation
• Participative and • Willmington’s Guide to the Bible by Dr. Harold L. Willmington
collaborative learning • Case studies
(Doctrine of the Son)
Excerpt
• Reconcile the time
• Henry Thiessen, Lectures in Systematic Theology, p. 313-314; 327-
when Jesus Christ died
and His actual 328
resurrection • Dr. John Walvoord, Jesus Christ our Lord, p. 162
• Make a timeline from • Pastor Emeritus Jose Luis Reunilla, Holy Week Observance in the
His death until Philippines
resurrection
Dictionaries
• Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries
• Thayer’s Greek Definition
• Be humbled by His
great act of love and
realize the necessity of
His death
• By understanding His
death, be able to share
Christ’s love to men
Week Intended Learning Content Learning Activities Course Resources Assessment Tasks
Outcomes

10 At the end of this Module, the Lesson 10:
learners should be able to:
The Heart of the Earth Descent
1. To see the events that and Resurrection of Jesus
took place between Christ
Jesus Christ’s death • The ministry of the Lord
Jesus Christ at the heart
and resurrection
of the Earth
2. Support that under • The proofs of
many circumstances resurrection
the resurrection of • The importance of
Jesus Christ is as solid resurrection
as any historical fact • The order of the
that could be cited in resurrection
the first century • The result of the
resurrection
Engage Basic Reading • Self-
assessment
• Lecture • Bible (KJV)
• Participation
• Participative and • Willmington’s Guide to the Bible by Dr. Harold L. Willmington
collaborative learning (Doctrine of the Son)
Explore
Dictionaries
• Look for passages that • Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries
will carry a twofold • Thayer’s Greek Definition
ministry performed by
Jesus Christ as He into
the lower parts of the
Earth
• Examine various
theories concerning the
doctrine of the
resurrection of Jesus
Christ
• Establish the
importance of the
resurrection of Jesus
Christ

Apply

• Guarantee the believers

of immediate and
future blessings
• Be able to mark the
deity of the Lord Jesus
Christ
• Promote the blessed
hope and victory over
sin and Satan
Week Intended Learning Content Learning Activities Course Resources Assessment Tasks
Outcomes

11 At the end of this Module, the
learners should be able to:
1. Determine the present
ministry of Jesus Christ
after His ascension
2. Focus on the blessed
hope promised by the
Lord Jesus Christ
Lesson 11: Engage
The Ascension and Present
Ministry and Future Coming of
Jesus Christ
• The fact of this
ascension and ministry
Explore
• The purpose of this
ascension and ministry
• The future coming of
Jesus Christ
• The millennial reign of
Christ
Basic Reading • Self-
assessment
• Lecture • Bible (KJV)
• Participation
• Participative and • Willmington’s Guide to the Bible by Dr. Harold L. Willmington
collaborative learning • Essay
(Doctrine of the Son)
Extended Reading
• Barna, George (2003). Think Like Jesus (What is Truth? – pages 149-
• Identify Scriptural
155)
passages regarding His
ascension and present Dictionaries
ministry
• Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries
• List down the purposes
for this ascension and • Thayer’s Greek Definition
present ministry
• Research on the two-
fold future coming of
Jesus Christ

Apply

• Share your experiences

how Jesus Christ
ministers to your
present life

Midterm Examination
Week Lessons 6-11

90 Items
12
Week Intended Learning Content Learning Activities Course Resources Assessment Tasks
Outcomes

13 At the end of this Module, the Lessons 12 and 13: Engage Basic Reading • Self-
learners should be able to: assessment
How the Bible came into Being • Lecture • Bible (KJV)
• Participation
1. To understand the • Introduction to the • Participative and • Willmington’s Guide to the Bible by Dr. Harold L. Willmington
Bible (Revelation, collaborative learning • Group work
very nature of the (Doctrine of the Bible)
tools God used to Inspiration, and
Illumination) Extended Reading
shape the Scriptures Explore
• Various theories of
2. Carefully consider the • International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Inspiration • Observe the purpose of
subject of inspiration • Implications of Excerpt
the tools that were
and draw out proper inspiration used in shaping the
conclusions to it • Dr. Charles F. Baker, A Dispensational Theology, p. 38
Bible
• Evaluate various Dictionaries
theories of inspiration
and eventually be led to • Unger’s Bible Dictionary
what is the correct view • Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries
of inspiration • Thayer’s Greek Definition

Apply

• Conclude several
implications of
inspiration and be able
to realize and state the
importance of it
Week Intended Learning Content Learning Activities Course Resources Assessment Tasks
Outcomes

14 At the end of this Module, the
learners should be able to:
1. Compare different
positions of groups of
people concerning the
Bible
Lessons 14:
Views on the Bible
• The position of various
denominations
Engage
• Lecture
• Participative and
collaborative learning
Explore
• Research on people’s
belief over the course
of time and discuss
their point of view
regarding the Bible
Apply
Basic Reading • Self-
assessment
• Bible (KJV)
• Participation
• Willmington’s Guide to the Bible by Dr. Harold L. Willmington
• Oral
(Doctrine of the Bible)
Presentation
Excerpt
• Dr. Bertrand Russell, A Guide to the Religions of America
• Quotations from Harry Emerson Fosdick (20th Century Liberal) and a
leader of Neo-Evangelical (Latter part of 1957)
Dictionaries
• Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries
• Thayer’s Greek Definition

• See the correlation of

the Two Testaments of
the Bible and be able
conclude that the Old
Testament is
directly/indirectly
referred to in the New
Testament
Week Intended Learning Content Learning Activities Course Resources Assessment Tasks
Outcomes

15 At the end of this Module, the Lessons 15:
learners should be able to:
What great personalities have
1. Look into different said on the Bible and Symbols
of the Bible
people from various
• Presidents
stages of life even
• World leaders
stature on what they
• Generals
have said about the
• Scientists
Bible
• Historians
2. Ascribe things here on • Physicians
Earth as symbols for • Lawyers
the Bible • Educators
• Philosophers and
Writers
• People from various
fields
• The church fathers
• Symbols of the Bible
Engage Basic Reading • Self-
assessment
• Lecture • Bible (KJV)
• Participation
• Participative and • Willmington’s Guide to the Bible by Dr. Harold L. Willmington
collaborative learning • Oral
(Doctrine of the Bible)
Presentation
Dictionaries • Journal
Explore
• Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries
• Assign groups and
• Thayer’s Greek Definition
collect statements from
great personalities and
discuss with the class
the things they have
said about the Bible
• Search in the Scriptures
several symbols for the
Bible
Apply
• Give personal insights
and make a collected
documentation on what
they have said about
the Bible
• Respond to the symbols
for the Bible on how it
can be related to your
personal walk with God
Week Intended Learning Content Learning Activities Course Resources Assessment Tasks
Outcomes

16 At the end of this Module, the Lessons 16 and 17:
learners should be able to:
Supreme authority of the Bible
1. Affirm the and the collection and
preservation of the Bible
genuineness,
• The authority of the
credibility, veracity,
Bible over any other
and divine authority
source
and inspiration of the
• The writing materials of
Bible.
the Bible
2. Understand how the • The original language of
66 books of the Bible the Bible
were collected and • The reason for the
preserved writing of the Bible
• The determination of
the Canon
• The finalization of the
Canon
Engage Basic Reading • Self-
assessment
• Lecture • Bible (KJV)
• Participation
• Participative and • Willmington’s Guide to the Bible by Dr. Harold L. Willmington
collaborative learning • Oral
(Doctrine of the Bible)
Presentation
Excerpt
Explore
• Geisler and Nix, A General Introduction to the Bible, p. 219-221
• Study the functions of
• Unger’s Handbook, p. 459
the Bible in a person’s
life Dictionaries
• Search the historical
• Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries
facets of the Bible that
will determine the • Thayer’s Greek Definition
eventual Canonization
of it
Apply

• Read the Bible with a

renewed spirit,
understanding, and
appreciation to and for
it

Final Examination
Week Lessons 12-17

100 Items
17
 Week Intended Learning Content Learning Activities Course Resources Assessment Tasks
Outcomes

18 At the end of this Module, the Lesson 18: Engage Basic Reading • Self-
learners should be able to: assessment
Bible Translations and Proofs • Lecture • Bible (KJV)
• Participation
1. Review the Three that the Bible is the Word of • Participative and • Willmington’s Guide to the Bible by Dr. Harold L. Willmington
Major Doctrines God collaborative learning (Doctrine of the Bible)
discussed in this • Important historical
translations of the Bible Excerpt
course Explore
• Considerations in
2. Understand Bible • H.S. Miller, General Biblical Introduction, p. 320, 329-330, 338-339,
understanding Bible • Determine different
translations and why 363-364
translations publications especially
we use the King James • Quotation by Sir William Ramsey, The Bearing of Recent Discovery on
from the time of Jesus
Version the Trustworthiness of the New Testament
until the mid-19th
• Robert Young, Young’s Analytical Concordance to the Bible, p. 51
Century and some of
the latest publications • David Otis Fuller, Which Bible?, p. 40-41
this 21st Century • S. McMillen, None of These Diseases, p. 11
• Examine the Three Dictionaries
Important
Considerations in • Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries
understanding Bible • Thayer’s Greek Definition
translations

Apply

• Present proofs that the

Bible is the Word of
God
• Use the King James
Version of the Bible
without discounting the
contribution of other
publications
• Know and be able to
explain why you are
using the King James
Version of the Bible

SUBMITTED BY:

AERON VILLANUEVA

BD 12: Doctrine of the Trinity, the Son, and the Bible