Grace & Truth Course 1: Biblical Investigations of the Koran

STAGE 1 – INTRODUCTION

• Unit 01 – PREVIEW: What to expect in this ministry course
• Unit 02 – INNER LIMITS: Comparing the Bible and the Koran as BOOKS

STAGE 2 – Tracing Biblical PASSAGES and Biblical PERSONALITIES in the Koran

• Unit 03 – SURVEY: For the Bible as a whole, produce a panorama of biblical PSSAGES that were taken up in the Koran
• Unit 04 – COMPILE: For PERSONALITIES in the Bible taken up in the Koran produce lists of Bible passages and corresponding lists of Koran passages for each such biblical personality
• Unit 05 – CORRELATE: For biblical passages on ADAM associate Koran passages to similar biblical passages, to find omissions of, additions to, and changes of biblical content in the Koran
• Unit 06 – OBJECTIVES: Follow a general procedure for analyzing, explaining and using omissions, additions and changes between the Bible and the Koran
• Unit 07 – INVESTIGATE OMISSIONS: For Adam in the Bible, what biblical content was omitted in the Koran, why was it omitted and what can you do about it in your ministry?
• Unit 08 – INVESTIGATE ADDITIONS: For Adam in the Koran, what non-biblical content was added to the Koran, from where was it added and what can you do about it in your ministry?
• Unit 09 – INVESTIGATE CHANGES: For Adam in the Bible and in the Koran, what biblical content was changed in the Koran, why was it changed and what can you do about it in your ministry?
• Unit 10 – CONCLUDE: Bring together all findings in a panorama on how biblical content about Adam was modified in the Koran

STAGE 3 – Tracing Biblical WORDS and Biblical TEACHINGS in the Koran

• Unit 11 – SURVEY: Compare all the words of the Arabic Bible and of the Arabic Koran to produce an exhaustive comparative concordance on the Bible and Koran in Arabic
• Unit 12 – ORGANIZE: Distinguish four Dimensions of biblical teachings as a framework for comparing teachings of the Bible with corresponding teachings of the Koran
• Unit 13 – DIMENSION 1: Human life with God in Bible and Koran
• Unit 14 – DIMENSION 2: God and his Creatures in Bible and Koran
• Unit 15 – DIMENSION 3: Sin, Judgment and Salvation in Bible and Koran
• Unit 16 – DIMENSION 4: Communal Life with and before God in Bible and Koran
• Unit 17 – EXAMPLE: The teaching on atonement in the Old Testament, in the New Testament and in the Koran

STAGE 4 – OUTER LIMITS: Competing Approaches

• Unit 18 – JEWISH Approaches: Rabbinical Investigations of the Koran
• Unit 19 – MUSLIM Approaches: Koranic Investigations of the Bible
• Unit 20 – ACADEMIC Approaches: Critically Rationalistic Investigations of both the Bible and the Koran