Good News!

In his first letter to the church, John the Apostle—inspired by God the Holy Spirit—writes the following memorable and encouraging words:
 “ἴδετε ποταπὴν ἀγάπην δέδωκεν ἡμῖν ὁ πατὴρ,

ἵνα τέκνα θεοῦ κληθῶμεν, καὶ ἐσμέν.” (1 John 3:1)

 The good news of this verse should make us shout for joy!  But many Christians find themselves cut off from that encouragement because they literally cannot read the words of the language that John used when wrote 1 John.

Greater Access 

The study of Greek equips students to do something that BCS faculty and parents want them to do for the rest of their lives: to read God’s word.  God inspired the New Testament to be written in ordinary Greek language.  Moreover, Greek was the language of the first translation of the Old Testament, and Jesus and Paul both frequently quote from this early Greek translation called the Septuagint in their ministry.  So, a student who reads Greek has a unique level of access to the entire Bible in the same language that the apostles read the Old Testament and composed the New Testament.

Broader Knowledge, Better Interpretation

BCS’s curriculum of Greek study both expands a student’s world and increases his ability to rightly interpret God’s word.  Students come to master New Testament vocabulary and grammatical forms, which is essential not only for reading the text but also for benefitting from sermons, theological articles, and commentaries that presume a knowledge of Greek.  Through Greek, the student gains access to literature and conversations that he would otherwise not have.  At the same time, BCS Greek develops a student’s ability to connect the proper interpretation of God’s word to the grammatical details of its original language.  In class and on tests, students must not only draw the right conclusions but must also support those conclusions with Greek grammar and syntax.  Thus, even as Greek widens the student’s world and enables him to interact with a wider swath of biblical commentary, it also strengthens his ability to assess arguments that people make based on the Greek text and to narrow in on those interpretations which are sound.

Greater Joy

We praise God that accurate translations of 1 John are readily available, and we know that God’s word continues to be God’s inspired word even when translated from Greek into English.  But BCS students have the opportunity to read the original words that God inspired John to write, to understand without a translator the message that God intended his people to hear, and to rejoice that, as John says, “τέκνα θεοῦ κληθῶμεν, καὶ ἐσμέν!”

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