Bible

About this course

Ninth grade is the first genuinely high school Bible course. The survey strands stop retelling stories and start reading books theologically: Psalm 22 and Isaiah 53 as testimony to Christ, Ecclesiastes, the covenants as the backbone of the Old Testament, the tabernacle as a type, Romans and Galatians on justification, Hebrews on the priesthood of Christ, and how each testament's canon came to be recognized. Bible study skills become formal hermeneutics, with exegesis and eisegesis defined and distinguished, genre recognition, figures of speech, the difference between descriptive and prescriptive passages, responsible use of original-language word studies, and an introduction to systematic theology including a full lesson on the doctrine of the Trinity and the errors it rules out.

Apologetics is taught as a discipline rather than a set of answers. It covers deductive logic and named informal fallacies, natural theology, the Kalam cosmological argument, the fine-tuning argument, the moral argument, Van Til's presuppositional method, C. S. Lewis and the trilemma, the New Atheist writers and how to respond to them, the historical case for the resurrection, and the problem of evil treated as the serious objection it is. Church history focuses on the Reformation in depth, including Luther's breakthrough, his debate with Erasmus over the will, Zwingli and the Marburg Colloquy, Calvin and the five solas, the Anabaptists, Tyndale, and then the Great Awakening, the modern missionary movement, Christianity in America, and the persecuted church today.

The course is 180 lessons across 15 units, one per school day, at about 30 minutes each. A lesson is a piece of academic prose under headings that defines its technical vocabulary, quotes and cites the King James text, and names the thinkers involved. Every lesson ends with a ten-question multiple-choice quiz that grades itself. The ethics units are where a parent will want to be present: they take up abortion and end-of-life care with a clearly stated pro-life conviction, along with bioethics and genetic engineering, artificial intelligence and social media, economic justice, business ethics, capital punishment, and sexual ethics from a biblical foundation. Where Christians have genuinely long disagreed, such as just war versus nonresistance, the course lays out both traditions with respect and leaves the conclusion to you and your family.

What the course covers

• The Old Testament as testimony to Christ: Psalm 22, Isaiah 53, and typology
• Covenant theology and the unity of Scripture
• Romans, Galatians, Hebrews, and the general epistles
• How the Old and New Testament canons were recognized
• Hermeneutics: exegesis, genre, context, figures of speech, word studies
• Systematic theology and the doctrine of the Trinity
• Formal logic, informal fallacies, and apologetic method
• Kalam, fine-tuning, moral, and presuppositional arguments; the New Atheists
• The Reformation: Luther, Erasmus, Zwingli, Calvin, the Anabaptists, Tyndale
• Applied ethics: life, bioethics, technology, wealth, war, and sexuality

What your student will be able to do

• Exegete a passage rather than read into it, using genre and context
• State and evaluate the major arguments for the existence of God
• Identify common logical fallacies in an argument you are given
• Explain the doctrine of the Trinity and the errors it excludes
• Trace the Reformation debates and what was actually at stake in each
• Build a reasoned, Scripture-grounded position on a contemporary ethical question

Scope and sequence

All 15 units of Bible for Grade 9, 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.