Bible

About this course

Twelfth grade is written as a capstone, and it says so. The survey units step back and ask structural questions: how the canon was recognized and on what historical timeline, why the Hebrew Bible was ordered as it was, how Kings and Chronicles tell the same history two different ways, how the Messiah is traced as prophet, priest, and king, what the atonement actually accomplished, and how Revelation works as apocalyptic literature. The Old Testament unit devotes a full lesson to the problem of divinely commanded violence, setting out four frameworks for reading the conquest and then asking your student to write a paragraph answering the objection that the God of the Old Testament and the God of the New are two different Gods. Bible study skills are a full hermeneutics course covering the literal-historical-grammatical method, inductive study, genre, the three lenses of context, word studies without overreach, using commentaries without surrendering your own eyes, five common ways readers go astray, and a framework for the passages that trouble honest readers.

Ethics comes around twice and ends with the student writing a personal code of ethics from Scripture. Along the way it covers the sanctity of life, sexuality framed as covenant rather than as a list of prohibitions, bioethics and new medical technology, generosity and honest dealing, Christian citizenship, environmental stewardship, attention and speech in a connected world, race and justice, and the church-and-state question worked through Scripture's own warnings. The race lesson names racism as sin, reckons honestly with how some in the church defended slavery and segregation, and argues that critical race theory's oppressor-and-oppressed categories come from Marxism rather than Scripture. On church and state the Anabaptist two-kingdoms reading is presented as the course's own position.

The course is 180 lessons across 15 units, one per school day, at about 30 minutes each. Every single lesson closes with Reflect and Engage or Synthesis prompts that call for a written answer, not just recognition, and then a ten-question multiple-choice quiz that grades itself. Several lessons are explicit capstones: build a lifelong Bible study plan, articulate a personal apologetic, write your life's creed. This is a senior course written for a student about to leave home, and the character unit says so plainly, closing on identity, vocation, friendship and marriage, suffering, and leaving a godly legacy.

What the course covers

• Canon formation, textual transmission, and the structure of both testaments
• Covenant theology and Messiah as prophet, priest, and king
• The atonement, the historical case for the resurrection, and Pauline theology
• The problem of violence and judgment in the Old Testament
• Full hermeneutics: method, genre, context, word studies, and hard texts
• Church history from the apostolic church to the global church today
• Constantine, the councils, the Reformation, and the Anabaptist vision
• Apologetics: contingency, design, moral argument, presuppositionalism, pluralism
• Ethics: life, sexuality, bioethics, economics, citizenship, media, race, church and state
• Worldview and integrating faith with every academic subject

What your student will be able to do

• Defend the trustworthiness of Scripture from canon, manuscript, and archaeological evidence
• Interpret a difficult or troubling passage with a stated method rather than a guess
• Trace a single theological theme from Genesis through Revelation
• Present a coherent case for Christianity and answer the standard objections
• Reason carefully about a contested moral issue and write the argument out
• Draft a personal code of ethics and a lifelong Bible study plan from Scripture

Scope and sequence

All 15 units of Bible for Grade 12, in the order they are taught.

Every lesson, by title

All 180 lesson titles are listed here — nothing is withheld until you download. Open a unit to read its contents.

One whole lesson, exactly as it comes

This is a real lesson taken from the middle of the course — the teaching text, the practice, the homework, and the first three quiz questions with their answers. It is not a marketing excerpt.

What you will need

Drawn from the materials named across all 180 lessons of this course. Most families already own most of it.