Centering Your Family Around God’s Word

You will be assigned a coach to give you personal feedback on your assignments. To opt-out of coaching, reply to the introductory email you will receive from your coach after enrolling.

You must have a Biblearc EQUIP subscription to enroll in this course.

Biblearc EQUIP

Successful completion of either Arcing or Bracketing. If you have learned one of these study Bible methods elsewhere, that is also acceptable.

This course is composed of ten lessons. Each lesson contains interactive content throughout and ends with an assignment. A single lesson will take the average student three to four hours to complete. Students are invited to progress at their own pace, but we encourage you to make a plan for steady progress and to stick to that plan. Your coach will inquire as to your intended pace shortly after you begin and help keep you accountable to stay on schedule.

Path courses all end with an assessment to determine your grasp of the skills learned and material covered. Successfully passing an assessment requires a high degree of understanding and is meant to serve as a motivation to take your study seriously as well as a catalyst to improve the standard of Bible study in the Biblearc community.

Students who successfully complete the course and pass the assessment will earn Biblearc’s Paraphrase Certificate (see sample). They will also earn exciting rewards.

If you do not pass an assessment, you may retry after one week’s time.

This course is currently available in English only.

Interested in helping us develop this course in other languages? Let us know.

The Biblearc Paraphrase course will help students improve their Bracketing or Arcing skills by testing out their understanding through restatement. Using the skills of paraphrasing and summarizing, students will function like detectives investigating the truths of God’s word by testing and proving their theories. These skills are crucial for thinking and interpreting. The aim of this course is, therefore, that students would grow in the sound handling of Scripture through better reading and more careful study, for deeper worship and more eager obedience to the Word of God.

Testing Your Interpretation

Paraphrase

Assessment

Lesson 2 | Expansion

Lesson 4 | Grammatical Logic

Lesson 6 | Interpretational Stances

Lesson 7 | Special Cases

Lesson 10 | Main Point Summary

Lesson 1 | Restatement

Lesson 3 | Paraphrasing the Logic

Lesson 8 | Sub-Point Summaries

Lesson 5 | Test Your Arc/Bracket

Lesson 9 | Combining Summaries

Greek Reading Self-Assessment

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Hebrew Reading Self-Assessment

How to share your work with a Biblearc group

Arcing Path Course in [Language]

Arcing: curso em português

Biblearc Path Course Translation

Cours de cheminement en français sur le Arcing

Cours de cheminement en français sur le Bracketing

“Arcing in Minneapolis”—Our First-Ever Workshop!

ESV Cross-Reference System

Sandbox Demo

New Testament Bracketing

Matthew 8:23–27

Landing Page

Biblearc Partners

The Apostles’ Creed

The Nicene Creed

Greek Paradigm Songs

Markup: The 7 Lenses of Bible Study

Arcing: Learning the Logic of the Bible

Frequently Asked Questions

Learning Resources Video Library

Contact us

Welcome!

Facebook Live

Self-Paced Tracks

Rewards

Introduction: Luke 15

Ten Ways to Say the Same Thing

Introduction: Isaiah 30:18

Using Translations

Introduction

Introduction: Hebrews 11:7

Introduction: Hebrews 10:19–22

Demo and Devo: 2Ti 1:8–12

Lesson Objectives

Demo and Devo: Ex 33:12–24

Introduction: Psalm 40:1–3

Introduction: John 2:1–12

Demo and Devo: Ecc 3:16-22

Preparing a Hypothesis

Encouragement & Review

The Arcing/Bracketing Module

Assignment: 2Co 3:1–3

Why Take This Course?

What Is That Pastor Doing?

Commentary vs. Paraphrase-Style

One Way to Say Five Things

Assignment: Writing Restatements

Stumped: Perspective Failure

Demo and Devo: Luke 8:26-39

Seven Principles to Unpack the Text

Paraphrasing and Summarizing

Bringing It All Together

Quiz

The Importance of Logic

Clear Conjunctions

Problematic Conjunctions

#2 | Check for Continuity

#3 | Re-Examine the Evidence

Introduction: Romans 6:1–4

Introduction: Joshua 1:5

Unveil Your Understanding

To Invite Scrutiny

Is It This or That?

Christ as Key in your Paraphrase

The two videos below present two interpretations of Romans 8:1–4. Listen to John Piper trace the logic of this passage in the first video, and then listen to the instructor's alternative interpretation in the second. 

Demo and Devo: Rom 8:1–4

Paraphrasing Relative Clauses

Instructor’s Work

Introduction: Melchizedek

Assignment: 2Co 3:7–11

Unpacking Figures of Speech

The Old Testament in the New

Demo and Devo: 1Pe 3:8–12

#1 | Reconstruct the Scene

Demo and Devo: Is 40:1–5

Assignment: 2Co 3:12–16

Stumped: Equivocation

Assignment: 2Co 3:17–18

Cultural Perspective

Demo and Devo: Neh 4:1–6

The Grey Dot

Why Summarize?

Starting to Build

Assignment: 2Co 4:1–6

Demo and Devo: Jam 3:1-6

Well-Crafted Contraction

Stumped: Red Herring

Assignment: 2Co 4:7–15

Stumped: Modern Imposition

Stumped: A Non-Sequitur

Stumped: Cherry-Picking

Stumped: The Kitchen Sink Fallacy

Assignment: 2Co 4:16–5:11

A Crystal Clear Panorama

Lesson Review

Course Survey

Ministry with Your Paraphrase

Assignment: 2Co 5:12–21

Demo and Devo

How-to Principles

Moving Toward the Main Point

Paraphrases

Summaries

Putting it Together

Pleasing the Lord, Persuading Others

Two More Examples

Stumped: Reporting the Process

Stumped: Overstating the Case

Lesson Objective

Implied Connections

Stumped: Confirmation Bias

Assignment: 2Co 3:4–6

Paraphrasing Prepositional Phrases

Paraphrasing Participle Clauses

Other Grammatical Markers

Courses

Sitewide

Path courses

Arcing for Columbus

Arcing (Español) for Arcing (Español) LIVE

Arcing (Português)

Searching

Bible Logic

Block Diagramming

LIVE Path Courses

Path courses (inaccurate completion percentage since only completed enrollments from the old site were copied over)

Lesson 6 | Interpretational Stances

Demo and Devo: Rom 8:1–4

John Piper: Romans 8:1-4

Matthew Carver: Romans 8:1-4