Required: Orientation OR-MA (2 Credits)

Select Four Courses from the Following:

Biblical Apologetics BA-501

Advanced Old Testament I AOT-501

Systematic Theology I ST-501

Advanced New Testament I ANT-501

Systematic Theology II ST-502

The Philosophical Problem of Evil PPOE-1510

14 Credits Total

Course Descriptions

Orientation OR-MA

The purpose of this course is to help ensure that the student will begin his or her study program at Master’s with the basic information needed to move successfully toward graduation. For this reason, this course is mandatory of all new students.

Biblical Apologetics BA-501

The purpose of this course is to develop the student’s understanding of the requisite issues in the study of Apologetics; to enable the student to identify key terms and describe essential issues of Apologetics and to apply Apologetic methodology to contemporary challenges; to offer the student the opportunity to explore significant challenges to the Christian faith and apologetic responses to those challenges; to examine and analyze the competing truth claims of rival world views.

Advanced Old Testament I AOT-501

This course will lead the student to carefully examine the various interpretive options in Old Testament studies from the Book of Genesis through the Song of Solomon; to relate critically his/her own commitment to Scripture in light of those options; to demonstrate a coherent understanding of the Old Testament that reflects the student’s ability to analyze character studies, historical development, and sound interpretation of the text.

Systematic Theology I ST-501

This advanced level course presents the student with the fundamental issues of Systematic Theology and how these relate to the Bible as a foundation source. 

Advanced New Testament ANT-501

This course will lead the student to carefully examine the various interpretive options in the New Testament study of the Gospels and Acts of the Apostles; to relate critically his/her own commitment to Scripture in light of those options; to demonstrate a coherent understanding that reflects the student’s ability to analyze and integrate character studies, historical development, and sound interpretation of the text.

Systematic Theology II ST-502

This advanced level course presents the student with specific issues of Systematic Theology as they relate to God and the creation.

The Philosophical Problem of Evil PPOE-1510

Course Purpose: To introduce and explain the various options in Christian understandings of the problem of evil, and to offer some suggestions for dealing with the problem so that the student will be better equipped to defend the coherence of Christian theism as a viable and tenable worldview against the skeptic's objection to theism based on evil in the world. To estimate the different merits and values of traditional and contemporary responses to the problem of evil and approaches to theodicy so that the student can analyze the various beliefs in Christian theism, construct viable options in theodicy, and show that these options are consistent and harmonious with other beliefs that (evangelical) Christians hold.

Option 1 – Enrollment fee of $200 and then a $92.75 monthly payment for 24 months. We do not charge interest, which is a great savings to you.

Option 2 – Pay 10% down ($222.60), and MIUD will match your 10% for a total discount of $445.20, leaving a total tuition balance of $1,780.80. Your monthly payment will be $98.95 for 18 months. We will waive the $200 enrollment fee.

Option 3 – Pay the entire tuition up front at enrollment, and we will match 40% of the tuition. That will lower your entire Certificate cost from $2,226 to $1,335.60, and no payments to worry about!

Courses Descriptions

Orientation OR-MA

The purpose of this course is to help ensure that the student will begin his or her study program at Master’s with the basic information needed to move successfully toward graduation. For this reason, this course is mandatory of all new students.

Biblical Apologetics BA-501

Course Purpose: The purpose of this course is to develop the student’s understanding of the requisite issues in the study of Apologetics; to enable the student to identify key terms and describe essential issues of Apologetics and to apply Apologetic methodology to contemporary challenges; to offer the student the opportunity to explore significant challenges to the Christian faith and apologetic responses to those challenges.

Biblical Truth and Worldview Conflicts BTWC-1510
Course Purpose: This multidisciplinary apologetics course considers how our big-picture "worldview" concepts of ultimate realities, including God, the world, life, death, our own origins and destinies, and concepts of meaning and value (truth vs. falsity, right vs. wrong, good vs. bad, valuable vs. worthless) are tied to our beliefs about which information is foundationally true and reliable. Various worldview elements are examined, theistic vs. atheistic, creationist vs. evolutionary, Biblical vs. humanist, and eternal perspectives vs. temporal perspectives. Critical issues regarding cosmic and human origins are specially analyzed, based upon Scripture-provided truth (especially Genesis), including the age of the earth, the original and renewed Dominion Mandate, and the laws of life and death. The crucial and unique authority of the Holy Bible is emphasized, with attention to how the Scriptures.

Basic Studies in Biblical Beginnings BSBB-1520
Course Purpose: This multidisciplinary apologetics course examines an overview of Biblical beginnings, including Creation Week (with special attention to the creation of Adam and Eve), mankind's temptation and fall in the Garden of Eden, conditions in the world before the Flood, highlights of the worldwide Flood and its aftermath, the early history of Noah's family and their descendants after the Flood (including the division of languages at Babel), and God's program of redemptive grace (or judgment) for fallen humanity. The importance of natural and special revelation, provided by God, is carefully investigated, with attention to the theological importance of human life and death. This course specially emphasizes the Biblical model of Earth's creation and its catastrophic past, in contrast to evolutionary and uniformitarian myths used to explain Earth’s origins.

Basic Apologetics of Heaven and Earth BAHE-1530
Course Purpose: This multidisciplinary apologetics course considers our physical world and its elements, as well as the majestic heavens beyond. Special attention is given to how observation-based data, analyzed by astronomy, physics, and the geosciences (geology, ocean science, meteorology, climatology, and the like) provide Bible-corroborating natural revelation, declaring the glory of God. The multifaceted evidence of God's providential care for mankind (the so-called anthropic principle) is examined as a proof of God’s creatorship and providence, clearly seen in God's continuing care for mankind's physical needs, being facilitated by features of the sun, moon, and physical processes on the earth (such as the water cycle). When analyzing the heavens and the earth (including its past history), special attention is given to the value of logic, the forensic nature of historic origins, the fossil record, evidences of the global Flood, common assumptions used to measure the unobservable past (such as radiometric dating assumptions), and to why the evolutionary Big Bang theory is false.

Basic Apologetics of Living Creatures BALC-1540
Course Purpose: This multidisciplinary apologetics course considers the amazing origins and diversity of life on earth, including mankind, animals, plants, and microorganisms. The Bible’s distinction between creatures with or without a nephesh is clarified, especially as this relates to how there was no death before Adam’s sin in the Garden of Eden. The purposeful design and activities of living things (humans, animals, plants, and microorganisms) are analyzed, including the proof of providential programming in DNA, RNA, and other biomolecules used by the informational systems inherent in all living creatures. The Scriptural categorization of created “kinds” (defined by genetic potential for breedability) is contrasted with evolutionary taxonomy concepts (such as “missing links” and “species”) defined apart from breedability. The indispensable elements and dynamics of biochemical information transfer, as well as kind-limited reproduction, found in all living creatures, are analyzed. Attention is given to how the Scriptures compare the Bible’s own textual information and transmission with the informational and reproductive traits of living seeds (including the seeds of humans, animals, and plants). "Natural selection", an evolutionist phrase, is shown to be an example of "bait and switch" terminology that both bluffs (as if "nature" was a substitute for God the Creator) and confuses (because inanimate "nature" cannot "select").

Mankind’s Social Dynamics After Eden MSDE-1550

Course Purpose: This multidisciplinary apologetics course considers Biblical stewardship obligations that mankind has been charged with, especially as those have been particularized after the Flood. Various social relationships, obligations, and dynamics are examined, with special attention to the social aspects of education, investigation of creation (including scientific discovery and research), technology, commerce, political systems, and legal enforcement of social obligations. The social dichotomy between believer and unbeliever is analyzed, including the historic pattern of religious persecution (of believers by unbelievers), beginning with the example of Cain murdering Abel. The contrast between the rule of law and arbitrary political power is analyzed, with special attention to how the theory of evolution has impacted legal education and legal process. This course also investigates the historic interplay between politics relevant to the Genesis Mandate, and politics relevant to the Great Commission. True education is defined as the careful transmission of God-provided truth to learners. Biblical principles and practices of education are examined, using key Scriptures in the Old and New Testaments.