CHRISTIAN RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

MARKING SCHEME

1. a) Outline eight books in the Old Testament referred to as historical books

 Joshua  1st Chronicles

 Judges  2nd Chronicles
 1st Samuel  Esther
 2nd Samuel  Ruth
 1st Kings  Ezra
 2nd Kings  Nehemiah

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b) Give seven ways in which man is superior to the rest of the creation from the creation stories

 Man was made in the image and likeness of God

 Man was given the privilege of communicating with God
 Man was created to have fellowship with God
 Man was given freedom and intelligence to choose between good and evil
 Man was blessed and commanded to multiply and fill the earth
 Man is a co-creator with God through procreation
 Man was given the privilege to name the animals and plants
 Man was given dominion over the rest of the creation

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C) State five ways in which Christians continue with God’s work of creation today

 Through procreation and bringing up of the children

 By protecting human rights and freedom of the people
 By caring for and conserving the environment
 By constructing dams and gabions
 Through scientific and technological discoveries which help to improve human life
 By taking care of the needy in the society
 Through provision of medical facilities and services
 By training people and providing employment opportunities for them
 By preaching peace to promote unity and harmony
 By participating in the making of just laws
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 2. a)Explain four differences between the Jewish and traditional African practices of
circumcision
 In the Jewish community it is for boys only while in some traditional communities it is for both
boys and girls
 In the Jewish community it is done on the 8th day while in TAC it is done during adolescence age
 Its purpose in the Jewish community is to identify with Gods people while in the TAC it is to
promote one to adult life
 Among the Jewish the practice was commanded by God while in TAC it was done in obedience
to the ancestors
 The rite is not seasonal among the Jewish as is the case in TAC
 In TAC it is a gate to more responsibilities while among the Jewish one is too young for any
responsibility
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b) Describe the background to the call of Abraham

 Abraham lived in the city of Ur near river Euphrates

 His father was a Semite
 They were semi Nomadic people
 His father was a moon worshipper
 His father Terah never knew the true God
 He married a wife called Sarai
 His wife Sarah remained barren till her old age
 They settled at a place called Harran

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c) State five acts of faith demonstrated by Christians today

 Worshiping and praying God

 Giving offerings and tithes to God
 Reading the bible
 Singing Christians hymns
 Going for fellowship
 Helping the needy
 Leading holy lives
 Repenting their sins
 Preaching the gospel
 Obeying God’s commands

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 3. a) Give seven reasons why Moses was reluctant to go back to Egypt
 He had killed an Egyptian
 He doubted whether the Israelites would believe him
 He was afraid to face Pharaoh who wanted to kill him
 He was a stamerer
 He lacked self-confidence and underrated his ability to lead
 He may have been worried about the family he had established in Midian
 He lacked adequate knowledge on the identity of the God who was calling him
 He may have lacked absolute faith in God

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b) Identify six reasons why the Israelites broke the covenant while at Mt Sinai

 Moses their leader delayed to come down from the mountain

 Aaron was a weak leader/he allowed them to make idols
 The people demanded for a god they could see
 the people were still influenced by the Egyptian way of worship
 Moses teachings had faded from the people’s minds
 The people had lost faith in the invisible God

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c) State seven attributes of God from the plagues

 God is loving and caring because he saw the plight of the Israelites and worked to
release them
 God expects and requires absolute obedience and faith from the people he sends
 God empowers the people he sends to perform miracles and to do his work
 God is more powerful than the Egyptian gods
 God is determined to fulfill his plans no matter how hard the task is.
 God is a God of justice
 God gives people a chance to repent
 God punishes the enemies of his people

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4. a)Outline seven reasons why Samuel was against Kingship in Israel

 It was seen as rejection of God as their king and leader
  In becoming like other nations the Israelites would lose their identity as a
covenant people
 Yahweh would reject them when they cried to him
 Israel would become like other nations who did not Know Yahweh
 Hereditary kingship would lead to oppression suffering and pain
 The King would introduce forced labour
 The king would grab people’s land for government use
 The king would force people to pay high taxes to the government

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b) Identify seven factors that led to the division of the kingdom of Israel after the death of
Solomon

 Solomon had married many foreign wives who brought idols with them
 Solomon allowed his foreign wives to build high places of worship for idol gods
 Solomon worshiped idol gods
 Solomon overtaxed his subjects and oppressed them
 Solomon spent years and a lot of resources building his own palace and the temple-
projects that made him introduce forced labor in Israel
 Disaffection among the Israelites made them to support Jeroboam
 Rehoboam Solomon’s son and successor rejected the advice from the old men and
accepted the advice from the young men to rule harshly
 The readiness of Jeroboam to lead the rebellious tribe

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c) Give lessons that modern political leaders in Kenya can learn from King Solomon

 Political leaders should ask for wisdom from God to enable them to rule
 They should trust/have faith in God
 They should promote the worship of God
 They should rule with justice or fairness/not oppress their subjects
 They should exercise self-control/be leaders of integrity
 They should have good diplomatic/trading relations with other countries
 They should make good use of their nation’s resources /not be extravagant
 They should protect their nation’s territory

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 5. a)Identify six effects of idolatry in Israel during the time of Prophet Elijah
 God raised prophets to bring Israel back to the covenant way of life
 There was persecution towards Yahweh’s prophets
 Baal prophets were brought to Israel
 There was corruption/social injustices/people rejected the covenant way of life
 The Israelite practiced syncretism
 There was drought in Israel for three and half years as a curse in Israel
 Israel lost her identity as a nation of God’s people
 A contest was held at Mt Camel to prove who the true God was
 Elijah fled the country and was sustained by God’s power during the period of the
drought

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b) Describe the mount Camel contest with reference to 1 st Kings 18:17-40

 Prophet Elijah asked Ahab to assemble all the people at mount Camel
 The King summoned all the people include the Baal prophets at MT Camel
 Elijah told the people to choose between God and Baal
 He ordered for two bulls to be brought for the sacrifices
 Each party was to offer a sacrifice of a bull and the God who will send fire to consume
the sacrifice will be the true God of Israel
 Baal prophets were the first to offer their sacrifices
 They prayed to their god shouting and dancing around the alter fruitlessly
 Elijah then mocked them to shout louder for their god might be asleep, on a journey or
either he could not hear
 They continued to pray and cut themselves with knives but no fire
 When his time came, Elijah called the people together
 He repaired the abandoned alter of Yahweh, set up twelve stones each representing the
twelve tribes of Israel
 He dug a trench round the alter and poured water on the wood until it filled the trench
 He placed the sacrifice on the alter and asked the people to pour water on it
 He prayed to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to send fire to consume the sacrifice
 He fire was sent from heaven and it consumed the sacrifice
 The Israelites were amazed and acknowledged Yahweh as the God of Israel
 Elijah then ordered the killing of the Prophets of Baal

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c) State six evils that Prophet Elijah would condemn in Kenya today
  Land grabbing
 Murder and tribal/ethnic clashes
 False prophecies and hypocrisy
 Power struggles
 Bribery and corruption
 Love for money/greed for wealth
 Oppression and exploitation of the poor
 Cultic practices and sects
 Witchcraft/sorcery/magic

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6. a)State seven roles of ancestors in Traditional African Communities

 They gave blessings to the living
 They protected their families against calamites
 They warn the living against impending dangers or calamites
 They rebuke those who disobeyed their instructions
 They safeguard traditions/ethics
 They mediated between men and God
 They inflict punishment on offenders
 They avert the consequences of curses
 They assist specialists in their work
 They welcome the dead to the ancestral world

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b) Give seven factors that contributed to harmony and mutual responsibility in traditional
African communities

 Political ties
 Division of labor
 Communal worship
 Leisure activities
 Rites of passage
 Religious beliefs and practices
 Observance of social norms regulates human relations
 Communal sharing of material possessions
 Belief in a common origin
  Same social political organization

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c) Give the factors that have undermined the role of elders in the modern society

 Modern education and technology

 Urbanization and migration
 Intermarriage/intermingling of different cultures
 Application of the constitution and laws made by parliament
 Western way of life tends to promote individualism
 Wealth has taken over age as a symbol of status
 Most judicial duties of the elders have been taken over by the courts
 Christianity influenced members who listened to church leaders other than the elders
 Permissiveness/moral decay has broken down all traditional structures

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