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Teaching Pathways

Examine the evidence. Explain your reasoning. Teach it faithfully.

Begin with Pathway 01, then carry the method into Pathway 02. Each room brings together learning objectives, evidence, interpretation challenges with feedback, and a teaching exercise.

Two pathways are open. Follow the recommended order, or return to either room at your own pace.

1. Teaching Pathway 01 · BEGIN HERE

   John 5:39–40

   Exposure Is Not Encounter

   Examine the passage in context, distinguish its explicit teaching from inference, and explain your reasoning.

   Teaching practice: Teach the passage in three or four sentences.

   What you will be able to do

   1. Examine John 5:39–40 within its setting — the Sabbath healing, the opposition, and Jesus' witnesses (John 5:16–18, 31–47).
   2. Distinguish what the passage explicitly states from what interpreters infer — including the ESV's statement reading of "search" (ἐρευνάω) versus the command reading, and study itself versus the hearers' refusal.
   3. Explain your reasoning: why "serious Bible study gets in the way of knowing Christ" misreads this passage.
   4. Teach the passage faithfully to someone else in three or four sentences — keeping the text, your inferences, and your application distinct.

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2. Teaching Pathway 02 · CONTINUE HERE

   Genesis 1:26–27

   Who gets to count as fully human?

   Examine the image of God across the connected passages and distinguish dignity, accountability, and fitness for trust.

   Teaching practice: Teach the passage in a two-minute explanation.

   What you will be able to do

   1. Examine Genesis 1:26–27 within its canonical context — the creation grant, the post-fall appeal (Genesis 9:6), James's contradiction (3:9–10), and the renewal demand (Colossians 3:9–14).
   2. Distinguish what the passages explicitly state about the image of God from what interpreters infer — including the difference between an ethical application and a Scripture quotation or dictionary definition.
   3. Explain your reasoning: why a person's wrongdoing does not erase their God-given image — and why dignity must not be confused with innocence, exemption from accountability, or fitness for trust.
   4. Teach the passage faithfully in a two-minute explanation — keeping the text, your inferences, and your application distinct, and addressing disagreement without attacking anyone's humanity.

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