Chapter 9: Professional Degrees – Criteria and Qualifications
Research competence is a very essential part of Scripture instruction and the competent Bible Scholar is in good standing with God!
1 Chronicles 25:8 (KJV) And they cast lots, ward against ward, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar.
2 Chronicles 30:22 (KJV) And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the Levites that taught the good knowledge of the LORD: and they did eat throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings, and making confession to the LORD God of their fathers.
Isaiah 29:11 (KJV) And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:
Isaiah 29:12 (KJV) And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.
Hosea 4:6 (KJV) My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
John 5:39 (KJV) Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
2 Timothy 2:15 (KJV) Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
The Bible University, by competent accreditation, awards the following degree certificates:
- Certificate of Bible Studies (CBS)
- Bachelor of Theology (BT)
- Master of Theology (MT), and
- Doctor of Theology (DT)
Those degrees shall be conferred on deserving Students upon demonstrated competence in Bible Scholarship. The following shall be enough requirements for the award of a Certificate of Bible Studies (CBS). A Certificate of Bible Studies (CBS) candidate shall:
- Possess a prior High School completion certificate or diploma from a secular institution or Christian School
- Be competent in English or French language to read and understand the Bible
- Be competent in text analysis, and
- Demonstrate a subsequent competence in a quarter of the 66 Books of the Bible, to understand and to impart same
- Complete a minimum of 20 credit hours in Bible Studies and Bible related studies for the attainment of the Certificate degree.
The following shall be enough requirements for the award of a Bachelor of Theology (BT) degree. A Bachelor of Theology (BT) degree candidate shall:
- Possess a prior High School completion certificate from a secular institution or Christian School
- Be competent in English or French language to read and understand the Bible
- Be competent in text analysis, and demonstrate subsequent competence in a third of the 66 Books of the Bible, to understand and to impart same.
- Complete a minimum of 120 credit hours in Bible Studies and Bible related studies for the attainment of the Bachelor degree
- Demonstrate Bible research competence by writing a 40-60 page thesis on a relevant Scripture theme or doctrine for Ministry application.
The following shall be enough requirements for the award of a Master of Theology (MT) degree. A Master of Theology (MT) degree candidate shall:
- Possess a prior BA degree from an accredited secular University with prior Christian works such as within the Campus Scripture Union, or a prior Bachelor of Theology Degree from a Seminary, College, or University
- Be competent in English or French language to read and understand the Bible
- Be competent in text analysis, and
- Demonstrate subsequent competence in two-thirds of the 66 Books of the Bible, to understand and to impart same.
- Complete a minimum of 48 credit hours in Bible Studies and Bible related studies for the attainment of the Master of Theology degree
- Demonstrate Bible research competence by writing a 60-100 page thesis on a relevant Scripture theme or doctrine for Ministry application.
The following shall be enough requirements for the award of a Doctor of Theology (DT) degree. A Doctor of Theology (DT) degree candidate shall:
- Possess a prior MA degree from an accredited secular University with prior Christian works such as within the Campus Scripture Union, or a prior Master of Theology Degree from a Seminary, College, or University
- Be competent in English or French language to read and understand the Bible
- Be competent in text analysis, and
- Demonstrate subsequent competence in all the 66 Books of the Bible, to understand and to impart same.
- Complete a minimum of 48 credit hours in Bible Studies and Bible related studies for the attainment of the Doctorate degree
- Demonstrate Bible research competence by writing a 100-300 page dissertation on a relevant Scripture theme or doctrine for Ministry application.
The following grade scale will be used for students’ final grade:
90 -100 = A
80 – 89 = B
70 – 79 = C
60 – 69 = D
0 – 59 = F
The criteria to determine competence in Bible Scholarship and the unquestioned ability of the Student to rightly divide the Word of Truth shall be as follows:
Isaiah 8:20 (KJV) To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
1 Timothy 4:11 (KJV) These things command and teach.
1 Timothy 4:12 (KJV) Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
1 Timothy 4:13 (KJV) Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
2 Timothy 2:15 (KJV) Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Titus 2:15 (KJV) These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.
Upon satisfactory completion of all requirements, a graduation ceremony shall be organized for qualifying students whose graduation shall qualify them to be enlisted into the Alumni of The Bible University in order to build life-long relationships, continued caring for the things, wellbeing, and Christian growth and edification of one another in Christ.
Any student who steals another person’s intellectual property (plagiarism), and it is so established by evidence, shall be summarily dismissed from The Bible University without any recourse to any refund whatsoever!
Students must be forewarned that the salvation journey, the impartation of salvation knowledge, and the fulfilling of the Great Commission of Jesus Christ is not for the lazy Christian who does not like to read! It is rather a journey of deep reading, meditation, and writing. Salvation is a lifelong commitment nourished only by constant reading of Scriptures! It is not of any emotional, yelling, feel-good type of preaching. A student who cannot commit himself or herself to this disciple of constant reading of Scriptures and scriptural analysis must not attempt to register with The Bible University! Your ability to walk with Jesus Christ depends entirely on you being able to plant your nose in the Scriptures daily!
Deuteronomy 17:15 (KJV) Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother.
Deuteronomy 17:16 (KJV) But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.
Deuteronomy 17:17 (KJV) Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
Deuteronomy 17:18 (KJV) And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites:
Deuteronomy 17:19 (KJV) And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them:
Deuteronomy 17:20 (KJV) That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.
Joshua 1:8 (KJV) This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
Luke 10:25 (KJV) And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
Luke 10:26 (KJV) He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?
Matthew 13:52 (KJV) Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
1 Timothy 4:13 (KJV) Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
Revelation 1:3 (KJV) Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.
