Welcome to the Kenosis online Bible College. Where the seminary is brought to the people and not the reverse as traditionally is. This site provides sound, refreshing and practical teaching on God's written Word for Christian leaders, aspiring Christian leaders and those wishing to have strong foundations in their relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.

The Kenosis Internet Bible College teaches from an Evangelical Theological and Practical perspective. The course is tentatively divided into various subjects.

Some of these courses focus strongly on how God's Word relates to our everyday practical living, aiming to provide inspiring Biblical principles about how to live daily in the power of the Holy Spirit. Other subjects include interesting and relevant facts from Church history which give readers samples of the lives of great Church leaders and of various false teachings which damaged God's Holy Church. We would be reading under

Major world Religions

1. Hinduism: sometimes referred to as Sanātana Dharma, a Sanskrit phrase meaning "eternal law ". Hinduism is the world's oldest existing major religion, whose earliest origins can be traced to the ancient Vedic civilization. A conglomerate of diverse beliefs and traditions, Hinduism has no single founder. It is the world's third largest religion following Christianity and Islam, with approximately a billion adherents, of whom about 905 million live in India and Nepal.

2. Islam: a monotheistic religion originating with the teachings of Muhammad, a 7^th century Arab religious and political figure. The word Islam means "submission” or the total surrender of oneself to God (Arabic: Allāh). An adherent of Islam is known as a Muslim, meaning "one who submits (to God)". There are between 1.1 billion and 1.8 billion Muslims, making Islam the second-largest religion in the world, after Christianity.

3. Buddhism: often described as a non-theistic religion and a collection of various philosophies, based initially on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, known as Gautama Buddha. To many however, Buddhism is not a religion, nor a philosophy or a set of doctrines, but rather teachings to guide one to directly experiencing reality. Buddhism is also known as Buddha Dharma or Dhamma, which means roughly the "teachings of the Awakened One" in Sanskrit and Pali, languages of ancient Buddhist texts. Buddhism began around 5th century BCE with the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, who was born in Ancient India, and is hereafter referred to as "the Buddha."

4. Jainism: traditionally known as Jain Dharma, is one of the oldest religions in the world. It is a religion and philosophy originating in ancient India. The Jains follow the teachings of the 24 Jinas (conquerors) who are also known as Tirthankars. The 24th Tirthankar, lord Mahavira lived in the 6th century BC. One of the main characteristics of Jain belief is the emphasis on the immediate consequences of one's behavior. Jains are a small but influential religious minority with at least 4.2 million practitioners in modern India and more in growing immigrant communities in the United States, Western Europe, Africa, the Far East and elsewhere. Jainism stresses spiritual independence and equality of all life with particular emphasis on non-violence. Self-control (vratae) is vital for attaining omniscience (kevala jnana) and eventually moksha, or realization of the soul's true nature.

Old Testament Theology: The class will attempt to understand the exact canon of the Old Testament and how it differs from the various other branches of Christianity. All include the books of the Hebrew Bible, while many traditions also recognize several deuterocanonical books. The Protestant Old Testament is, for the most part, identical with the Hebrew Bible; the differences are minor, dealing only with the arrangement and number of the books. For example, while the Hebrew Bible considers Kings to be a unified text, and Ezra and Nehemiah as a single book, the Protestant Old Testament divides each of these into two books. The differences between the Hebrew Bible and other versions of the Old Testament such as the Samaritan Pentateuch, the Syriac, Latin, Greek and other canons, are greater. Many of these canons include whole books and additional sections of books that the others do not. The translations of various words from the original Hebrew may also give rise to significant differences of interpretation.

New Testament Theology: The class will attempt to understand The New Testament as the central element of Christianity, and how it has played a major role in shaping modern Western civilization. Although certain Christian sects differ as to which works are included in the New Testament, the vast majority of denominations have settled on the same twenty-seven book canon it consists of the four narratives of Jesus Christ's ministry, called "Gospels"; a narrative of the Apostles' ministries in the early church, which is also a sequel to the third Gospel; twenty-one early letters, commonly called "epistles" in Biblical context, written by various authors and consisted mostly of Christian counsel and instruction; and an Apocalyptic prophecy, which is technically the twenty-second epistle. Though Jesus spoke Aramaic, the New Testament (including the Gospels) was written in Greek because that was the lingua franca of the Roman Empire.

Pauline Theology The class will attempt to understand this Theology. Pauline Theology is a term used to refer to a branch of Early Christianity associated with the beliefs and doctrines espoused by Paul the Apostle through his writings. Most of mainstream Christianity relies heavily on these teachings and considers them to be amplifications and explanations of the teachings of Jesus. Others perceive in Paul's writings teachings that are radically different from the original teachings of Jesus documented in the canonical gospels, early Acts and the rest of the New Testament, such as the Epistle of James. Pauline Theology, as an expression, first came into use in the twentieth century amongst those scholars who proposed different strands of thought within Early Christianity, wherein Paul was a powerful influence. There is no doubt that Christian theology is heavily indebted to Pauline theology. What is, however, of even more significance is that any serious attempt to reconstruct the origins of Christianity depends to a considerable extent on the information and data which we gain from his authentic so-called great (or proto-pauline) epistles, the earliest extant written documents of Christianity. The undisputed historical fact of Jesus’ death, coupled with his eschatological teaching, have undoubtedly played an important part in shaping the fundamental basics of the faith of the early Christian community, which were expanded with secondary contemporary (Greco-roman, Hellenistic, oriental etc.).

Systematic Theology The class will attempt to formulate a coherent Theological philosophy which is applicable to the component parts of a given faith's system of belief. Inherent to a system of Theological thought is that a method is developed, one which can be applied both broadly and particularly. While a systematic theology must take into account the sacred texts of its faith, it also looks to history, philosophy, science, and ethics to produce as full a view and as versatile a philosophical approach as possible.

Church History: The class will cover the development of the Church from its foundation to the present, stressing its role in the evolution of culture. Themes to be traced in the class will include a study of the shaping of the Trinitarian consensus in the ecumenical councils, the development of the institution of Christology and its relationship to the Church. An examination of the East and West in the life of the Church, the 1054 CE, split which formalized between the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches; when their leaders excommunicated each other. the role of Protestant Reformation in the 16th century, which led to a split within the western church. How the Protestant movement further fragmented into what is now hundreds of individual denominations and groups of denominations, the recurrence of millennialism, popular Christianity and introduction to the ecumenical movement and the Word of Faith movement

All subjects provide readers with detailed understanding of the main teachings of the Bible.

The course notes of the college are adapted for those who would be able to complete in the future a Certificate, Diploma or Bachelor Degree course at an accredited Bible College. But the notes are specifically written using English simple enough for most everyday readers.

The author Rev.Wesley Jacob, who has taught all the courses at several Theological Seminaries to ministers and aspiring leaders, is ordained with The Church of South India. The Church of South India is the result of the union of churches of the Anglican, Methodist, Congregational, Presbyterian, and Reformed traditions. It was inaugurated in September 1947, and organized into 16 dioceses, each under the spiritual supervision of a bishop, the church as a whole is governed by a synod, which elects a moderator. Episcopacy combined with synodical government, the church recognizes the Episcopal, Presbyterian, and Congregational elements of Church’s life. Rev. Wesley was involved with a team who researched and documented, peoples groups within Missions Organizations, providing data and resource material for both Indian and overseas missionaries, to get a picture of the context of various peoples groups the mission served. He was then called to Pastor the Hope Baptist Church, an urban church, some of its parishioners were from The Baptist Hospital, The Indian Institute Science and Agricultural Science Institute. His responsibilities were both administrative and sacramental. During this time, he introduced and formulated Bible studies for Paramedics from selected portions of the Synoptic Gospels. While at Hope Church, Trans World Radio invited him to do a grammatico-historical, hermeneutical study ‘Through the Bible” emphasizing the context, scope, and plan of texts with a comparison of parallel passages, desiring to enthuse listeners to a deeper reverence for God and His Word. From the Old Testament he taught the Books of Genesis, Nehemiah, Esther, Job, the Psalms, the Songs, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, and Ezekiel. From the Gospels he taught the Gospels of Matthew and John. From the Epistles he taught the Epistles, Second Corinthians, Colossians, First and Second Thessalonians, First and Second Timothy, Titus, Philemon, and Hebrews. He was the Spiritual Director for an Inter-denominational Pastors Fellowship during his tenure at the Church of South India.

His writings include

- A critical examination of an interfaith confessionalism, how religions define and articulate their religion’s essence, in the contemporary world, with special reference to the 1893 Chicago, Parliament of Religions.

- An assessment of the existential philosophies of Kant, Hegel and Schleiermarcher, chiefly juxtaposing Kant’s anthropocentric Creator, the abstract embodiment as against the historicity of the Hegelian God.

- An endeavour to recover a patristic embryonic of solidarity with the Subaltern, that was nascent and emergent in Ante-Nicene writings with a particular examination of the Shepherd of Hermes as a normative for a comprehensive India Subaltern theology

- Christology Today: The Significance of the Chalcedonian definition assessed

- Missions in retrospect: Herbert Kane’s panoramic view of Missions from Pentecost to the Present

- The Gospel as Prisoner and Liberator of Culture: Andrew Walls’ studies in the transmission of Faith

- The great century and beyond (1792-1910): Justice Andersons’ Foundations, History, and Strategies of World Missions

Job Anbalagan and Constance Radomski are our co-workers in this ministry.