How To Use
this interactive version

This "interactive" version of the course features logins for single or multiple users on the World-Wide Web or off-line, ease of navigation using frames, automatic Bible passage lookup, discussion questions, interactive quizzes and instant self-tests.

If you choose, you can enroll in a class of other students and discuss each lesson with them, have your written assignments graded by a qualified instructor, take a proctored test at the end of each semester, and have the opportunity to receive a Certificate of Completion when you finish all five semesters.

Let's Look At Each Of These:

We have designed this interactive course so that you can use it ~

How to login

You're welcome to use this course as our guest as much as you like. Here's how to login:

* NOTE: Do this at the very start of each session!
* After "User:" please select "guest" from the pull-down list,
* after "Pswd:" type in "password",
* then click on the "Login" button.

This guest login is all you need to take the course over the Web! You can also download the course for free and login off-line in the same way. When students enroll (see below), we will give them their own login and password so they can take the course with other students, over the Web or off-line. The interactive features are designed to work best with Firefox (www.firefox.com) version 2 or higher. Internet Explorer has broken the interface between its browser and our Javascripts.

Ease of navigation

Many websites today use "frames" to make navigating the website easier. Each frame in our website has a scrollbar on the right-hand side. This lets you scroll up and down in that frame, just as if it were a separate window, or press the keys Alt+← to go back one page, or press the keys Alt+→ to go forward one page. You can also use your keyboard's up-arrow and down-arrow keys, but sometimes it's better to use the Page-Up and Page-Down keys or scrollbar -- more on this point later.

The long vertical "frame" on the left side of the screen is the "Table of Contents" for the course. The blue words such as "Login," "Introduction" and "E-mail" are hypertext links that will take you to those places when you click on them. If you click the blue arrow right after "The Full List of Titles" you'll see links for each section of the course. Click on the section you want and then scroll the frame down to select the lesson you want. Your mouse pointer will change from an arrow to a little "hand" when it's over a hypertext link. Your browser's default is to underline hypertext links and show them in blue, or perhaps purple after you have clicked on them. But you may have changed these browser settings, or the web designer may have made them display differently in his HTML code.

NOTE: You should be able to adjust the frames for your monitor's size and resolution. To do this, move your mouse pointer to the frame bar, and when it is right on the frame bar it turns into a double-pointed arrow. This means you can now hold down the left button on your mouse and move the mouse to drag the frame bar to where you want it. If you're using Firefox you can press the F11 key to minimize the menu bar, which gives you more screen space for our lessons.

Automatic Bible passage lookup

These lessons contain references to hundreds of Bible passages. Imagine how much time you would take to look up all those references by hand! To speed things up, we've transformed each reference into a hypertext link to the World English Bible that will appear in this frame. These links will access the World English Bible on our website.

Interactive quizzes and instant self-tests

The login screen is used so the students and instructor know who you are. Your answers to the quizzes must come from the same email address that you use when you register for this course. There are several pop-up windows throughout the lessons that give extra information or are just for fun. The pop-up windows sometimes are activated when your mouse pointer goes over a hypertext link, sometimes when your mouse pointer moves off a hypertext link, and sometimes you'll see "double-click" when your mouse pointer rests on the link: double-click on it, and you'll see the pop-up message.

Sometimes these hypertext links with pop-ups are arranged two or three together, to form a multiple-choice instant self-test. If you double-click on one of the links, you'll find out if you selected the right answer. These don't get emailed to the instructor, they are just for your benefit.

In all of the lessons you'll find questions mixed in with the lesson content. Usually there is no more than one frame full of content, then a quiz question to help you review and aquire the information you've just read. These quiz questions use "radio buttons" and "check boxes" that you click to select your desired answer. After selecting an answer, please use your scroll bar, or press the Page-Up/Page-Down keys to move up or down in this document. Using your up-arrow or down-arrow may change the answer!

All of the above -- the ease of navigation using frames, automatic Bible passage lookup, interactive quizzes and instant self-tests -- are free of charge. We encourage you to download the course, install it and go through the course with a cell-group in your home or your church. These lessons required hundreds of hours to write and again hundreds of hours of programming work, so you know how valuable they are, but they are our gift to you in the name of Jesus! May His Kingdom increase!

Discuss Each Lesson With Other Students

It's a proven fact that we learn almost as much from the structured, guided discussions with other students in a class as we learn from the instructor or the textbook. You will get much more out of the course if you enroll so that you can discuss the topics shown in each lesson with other students. Some of the discussion questions are emailed to the entire class, and some are emailed to a small group of 3-6 students. Please send in the registration form!

Receive A Certificate After Five Semesters

When you finish all five sessions and pass the exams, you will receive a Certificate of Completion. This certificate will be evidence of having completed the course, and together with your course records may be recognized for credit at various Bible schools or seminaries. Of course, we can't guarantee this: you will have to contact the educational institution about it.

How To Enroll In A Class Of Other Students

If you click on "Enroll" and scroll down to the end of the page you can see the Enrollment Form and the current or next class schedule for the course. Please fill out the form to be enrolled in the next semester. By doing each lesson according to the class schedule, you will be studying the material along with other students and interacting with them. This enhances the learning process and greatly increases the percent of students who "stick with it to the end." Without having a schedule, other students who take the course along with you, and an instructor who meets with you over the Internet, most people (about 80%) drop out of traditional correspondence courses. With these features added into the course, most students complete the course!

For each session we request a very small donation, only about 1/10 of what a similar course would cost at a Bible college or seminary, because you don't have to pay for the "bricks-and-mortar" (classrooms, libraries, administrative and instructor offices, dormitories, cafeterias, bookstores, etc.) of a traditional educational institution. If you're taking this course for a Certificate of Completion, the course instructor will record your objective quiz grades and manually grade your written work, and at the end of each semester you will have to take an exam, and we will grade it manually.

When we receive your enrollment, we will add your email address to our List-server, and add your name and password to the master login file on our Web-servers. You can study directly on our servers "on-line," even if you don't have your own computer - you can study directly from our server in the USA: www.agape-biblia.org/indexBLC-E.htm.

Or, if you want to study at your own computer while you are not connected to the Internet, we will tell you by email how to download your unique password and other files for all students in your class, and you can use your computer "off-line" after you have downloaded this course and the Bible that goes with it. Of course, you must use your email program on your own computer. We will tell you by email how to download your unique password and other files for all students in your class, and you can then begin studying.

If you share a computer with other people ~

As the Internet develops into "Internet-3" with very-high-speed communication, we will be able to add many more images, graphics, music, voice and perhaps even video. At present, though, we have designed this course and others like them to work over email, with your own computer or at a borrowed computer where you may or may not even have your own email address. So for now,

we have tried to "keep things as simple as possible - but no simpler"
We hope you like it!