“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind” (Matthew 22:37).

How do we live out this essential commandment? Who is this God we are called to love? What is true and false, good and evil, right and wrong? The answers to these questions frame our picture of the world — our “worldview.”

We believe that God is very necessary and very relevant, that the differences between religions and worldviews are both real and significant, and that Christianity best satisfies the criteria for a livable worldview. The choice of a worldview is both personal and of far-reaching eternal significance. In that manner, the Bible program exposes students to the scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, the life and redemptive work of Jesus Christ, and the historic Christian faith and its relationship to the major worldviews of our time. The learning and dialogue encompasses the great breadth of perspectives in the Christian faith.

Students are asked to carefully examine their own beliefs as well as the argumentation and beliefs that disagree with a Christian worldview. The purpose of all critical thinking is not to create skepticism in students, but to equip them to be conversant with most of the ideas they encounter in the university and society, so that we follow Paul’s advice: “Test everything. Hold on to the good” (1 Thessalonians 5:21).

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Meet the Bible Faculty

Brett Dewey
Bible Department Chair
818.575.9182
bdewey@oakschristian.org

Jim Altizer
818.575.9102
jaltizer@oakschristian.org

Dan Smith
818.575.9145
dsmith@oakschristian.org

Joel Murphy
818.575.9112
jmurphy@oakschristian.org

Bill Myers
818.575.9142
bmyers@oakschristian.org

Joel Perttula
818.575.9139
jperttula@oakschristian.org

Jennifer Baughman
818.575.9113
jbaughman@oakschristian.org