04/08/2026
📚 ELITE — NEW SUBJECTS
We are excited to begin another season of learning together at the ELOJEM Institute of Theological Education (ELITE).
🕘 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
📍 Pastora Pinky’s Garden
Zabate Village, Bangkal, Davao City
AM — SURVEY OF THE DEUTEROCANON / APOCRYPHA
While we do not accept these books as part of the biblical canon or as authoritative Scripture, we recognize their important historical and interpretive value.
The Deuterocanon, also known among Protestants as the Apocrypha, is a collection of ancient Jewish writings produced largely during the Second Temple period—the historical and cultural world between the Old and New Testaments.
These writings give us an important window into the world of ancient Judaism—the world in which Jesus and the apostles lived. They help us understand the development of Jewish thought concerning the Messiah, resurrection, Torah, wisdom, atonement, angels and demons, and the hope for God’s coming Kingdom.
Studying them helps us better understand the historical, cultural, and theological world of the New Testament and reconnects us with the Jewish context from which the early Jesus movement emerged.
We study the Deuterocanon/Apocrypha not to expand the canon, but to expand our understanding of the world surrounding the canon.
PM — THEOLOGY 1
The Character and Attributes of God
Exodus 34:6–7
When God reveals his own character to Moses, he describes himself as:
Compassionate. Gracious. Slow to anger. Abounding in loyal love and faithfulness.
Exodus 34:6–7 becomes one of the Bible’s most important descriptions of God—repeated, quoted, and echoed throughout the biblical story.
In Theology 1, we will explore these divine attributes in their Hebrew and biblical context and trace how this foundational revelation shapes the Bible’s portrait of who God is.
Our goal is not merely to develop a list of God’s attributes, but to understand God’s character as God himself reveals it in Scripture.
📖 Read the Bible in its world.
Understand the story.
Know the God who reveals Himself through it.
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