SALVATION I. & II.

The foundation of all Christian living and service.

    Of all of the needs of life, preeminent is the need for life- after this life.  All of mankind is under the curse of death.  Death, the end of physical life, is a common end for every human being; and without Salvation all will suffer the second death- hell and the lake of fire.
    As Christians, we know about Salvation through Christ.  We even know the rudiments of what Salvation means.  But few of us know what the term really means.  Oh yes, we know what benefits we derive from it, forgiveness of sin, Heaven, the power of God dwelling within us to help us to strive toward godly living, etc., but we don't have the real depth of knowledge about Salvation that is available to us.  And since it is available to us, then to not partake of that knowledge is to disobey God's command that we study His Word.

    The study of this subject will be in two parts.  Salvation I. will be a simple outline study of the subject.  Salvation II. will be an in-depth study of the intricacies of the subject.

SALVATION I.

    The purpose of this class is to teach you the foundation upon which all of our Christian life is built.  Salvation by God's grace through faith in Christ is the cornerstone of our faith and the only means of gaining the Holy Spirit who alone can equip us for all ministry for God and empower us for a life of godly living and effective service.

    When you finish this class you will have a biblical working knowledge of Salvation- what it is, what it isn't, who it is from, how to get it, how to keep it, and through that knowledge gained, how to pass it on to others in obedience to Christ.

• INSTRUCTIONS:
  - Underlined words in these instructions are links to the forms.
  - Minimum required attendance for the entire course is 7 weeks.
  This is the number you input on your Begin Sign In form in the field:
      "Required Weeks Minimum Attendance for Course:"  You will enter a 7 in this field.
  This is also the number you input on your  Course Record Form that you will keep for this course in the field:
      "Weeks minimum attendance for entire course ____."
    You only need to print one copy of the form for each course.  On it you will record all information for each course.
  - Minimum required attendance per lesson is 1 week.
  This is the number you input on your Begin Sign In form in the field:
      "Required Weeks Minimum Attendance per Lesson:"  You will enter a 1 in this field.
  This is also the number you input on your Course Record Form that you will keep for this courses in the field:
      "Minimum attendance per lesson____."
    You only need to print one copy of the form for each course.  On it you will record all information for each course.
  - The maximum testing schedule for this course.  You may take and submit not more than 1 section/lesson test each week.  At the end of the course, when you have fulfilled the required 7 weeks attendance and passed all of the section tests, you may take the Final Test on or after the next day after passing your 7th test.  Do not take it on the same day as your 7th test because you cannot submit two tests in any one course on one day.
     To figure your minimum study and testing requirement follow this rule.  If you begin on a Monday, then your first test can be submitted on the following Sunday and your attendance for the second lesson begins the following day. Which is, once again, a Monday.  If you stay on this schedule, your lessons will always begin on Monday and your minimum testing day will always fall on a Sunday.  When you have completed your minimum attendance requirement for the course, which you will do in this case on a Sunday if you stay with this minimum schedule and turn in your 7th test on that day, then you can take your Final Test the next day, which is Monday, the first day of the 8th week.
  Math computation of testing and lesson dates:
      Should you not be able, for one reason or another, to stay on that schedule, that is quite alright.  There are no maximum attendance requirements for our courses, only minimum ones.  So if you do not stay on that regular schedule, then you can always compute the minimum date on which you can take your next test by adding 7 to the date on which you took the last test.  You will have a record of the date on which you passed your last test on the required Course Record Form that you are to print out and on which you are to record all pertinent information about each course such as test information, Dates, Test #s, and Score.
  
     In short, take the date you took the last test and add the required days of attendance and you will have the minimum date on which you can take your next test.
  

SAMPLE SCHEDULE- Written for January, 2011
This is only a sample schedule.  You don't have to begin this course on any particular day of the week.
This is only a sample schedule to make it clear to you how to figure your attendance for this course.

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
February 2011
		1	2	3	4	5
6   Submit 5th test.	7 Begin 6th lesson.	8	9	10	11	12
13   Submit 6th test.	14   Begin 7th lesson.	15	16	17	18	19
20 Submit 7th test.     End of your attendance for this course. Submit the Finish form and the Password Retrieval Form.	21  1st day of the 8th week.   You may now take the FINAL TEST.	22	23	24	25	26
27	28

Remember: Whatever day you start the first lesson of the course, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, etc., your first test is submitted one week later to meet the minimum attendance.  Then your next lesson attendance begins the day after you passed the previous test.

If you start on Monday, then your test can be submitted on or after the following Sunday.  If you pass the test, then your next lesson begins the next day, which will be a Monday again if you have stayed on this sample schedule.

If you start on Tuesday, then you may test on the next Monday and, if you pass the test, then you may start your next lesson on the next day, which is, again, a Tuesday. 

If you start on Wednesday, then you may test on the next Tuesday and, if you pass the test, then you may start your next lesson on the next day, which is, again, a Wednesday.

Follow this same pattern adjusted for whatever day of the week you start your first lesson.

Mathematically, if you add 7 to the date of your last test, then you will have the minimum date for your next test.

-  Sign In:  If you have not already done so, please SIGN IN for this course when you first start your attendance to study this course and then sign in again when you finish the entire course.  You do not sign in to "Begin" each individual lesson in the course.  You only sign in when you "Begin" your attendance for the entire course, not each individual lesson in the course.
   Make sure you keep a record of your "Begin Sign In" date because you will be required to submit that date when you submit your "Finish Sign In" form.  The following link will take you to a form designed for that purpose.
-  Course Record form: If you have not already done so from a link earlier in these instructions, print a Course Record Form on which to keep all pertinent information for this course.  You will need this information for other forms which you will fill out later in this course.  You only need to print one copy of the form for each course.  On it you will record all information for each course.
-  Complete each section of the textbook, looking up all of the scriptures referenced.  You must use the King James Version because all of the scriptures in these courses are from that version.  There are blanks in the scriptures which are quoted in the lessons.  No provision is made for you to fill in the blanks, they are there only to make it necessary for you to go to your Bible to read the completed reference and or to bring your attention to a particular portion of the scripture.

  - Credits
     The Salvation course is worth one (1) credit.

TESTING:
-  Read and submit the TESTING INSTRUCTIONS AGREEMENT form if you have not already done so.  How to input your User Name is given in the Testing Instructions Agreement  If you do not read and file that form you will not know how to input your User Name.  Only one Testing Instruction form is required per student for their file.
    WARNING: If you do not read and follow the Testing Instructions Agreement form you will not be able to correctly fill out the information page of the tests.  Therefore, without a Testing Instruction form in your file your tests will be disallowed and they will not be credited to you.  And if you do not know how to correctly fill out the information page on the test then it cannot automatically email you a copy of your test as it is designed to do.

-  Open book tests:  All tests in the Salvation course are "open book," which means that you may use all study materials (workbook, textbook, Bible, etc.) while taking the tests.
EXACT ANSWERS: Those tests that are open book will often require the exact answer from the textbook, workbook, or Bible, whichever of the study materials are appropriate, for most of the questions.  Incorrect answers, spelling errors, punctuation errors, extra spaces before or anywhere in the answer or after the answer, will cause the answer to be scored as "Incorrect."  Along with the privilege of using your study materials and taking an "open book" test comes the responsibility of giving the answers to questions verbatim from those study materials wherever required.

-  After completing each section, and meeting the one week minimum attendance requirement for the lesson, then you may take the test for that section.  All tests are open book, which means that you can use your textbook/workbook to help you take the test.

-  If you fail a test, then review the text and then take the test again on or after the next day.  Repeat this process until you pass the test.

-  ATTENTION:  You MAY NOT Take any test more than once on any one day.
    Should you fail a test you must wait until the next day to repeat it.
    You may NOT take more than one test in any one subject on any one day.

-  When you have passed the section test, then go on to the next section after reviewing the text in order to find the correct answers to any questions missed on the test.  Once you have received a passing score on a test, do not take it again.  Only your first passing score will be added to you file.  Any others will be discarded.

We must process and discard additional tests by hand and this causes extra work for us.  So please only take or retake the tests until you pass them.

-  After completing the last section and passing the test for that section, then you will need to go to the SIGN IN page and submit it as "Finished" and then retrieve the PASSWORD and take the FINAL TEST.  You will find the Password and Final Test links at the bottom of this page.

•  NOTE on TESTING:  You must pass each test before going on to study the next section.  You must also pass the final test in order to complete the class.
      Should you fail any one of the tests, study the lesson again and then retake the test on or after the following day.  Repeat this process should you fail again (one day wait between retakes); only you may want to spend extra time re-studying the lesson in more depth before repeating the test.  You may repeat the test as many times as necessary; however, you must pass the test in order to proceed to the next section and you may not take the test more than once on any one day.
  

• NOTE on MISSED QUESTIONS:  If you had any wrong answers on any test, then you must restudy that section of the textbook or the Bible, whichever is appropriate for the question, and find all of the correct answers to the questions that you missed on the test.  This is required whether you pass or fail the test.
  
  

• SALVATION COURSE TEXTBOOK:
  Click on the links in the list below to go to each individual section of the textbook.
  
  ATTENTION:  Since this is your first required course, there may be some confusion about the Sign In process. Sign in once before you begin the first lesson using the "Begin Sign In" form.
      You do not sign in again and until after you have completed all 7 lessons, which is the complete Salvation course, and you are ready to apply for the password and take the Final Test.  Before applying for the password you sign in using the "Finish Sign In" form which is a record of the end of your attendance for the entire course.  After you submit the "Finish Sign In" form you must then submit the Password Retrieval form to receive the password.  (Password requests are hand-processed and may take 1-2 days, not including weekends when the college offices are closed.  The offices are closed from 10:00 pm Friday night until 10:00 am Monday morning, Utah, USA, time.)
  

• If you are in doubt about any of the process to begin this first course, you may review the TUTORIAL and it will take you through all of the necessary forms to get you to this first course.  It can be used to guide you through the process to begin any of the courses.  Simply indicate which course you want to take when asked in the Tutorial to select a course.  The Tutorial can always be accessed from the Classes main page should you need it for some other course or it can be accessed from the Forms link in the left-hand Nav bar on any page that has that bar.
  

• The textbook has been divided into 7 sections with each section containing one lesson.  You will download each section, one at a time, and study that section and then take the test any time after you have fulfilled the minimum required attendance for the lesson- which, as listed above, is 1 week for the lessons in this course.