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1/1/2025

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Identify six factors that undermine the role of traditional healers today.

10/11/2021

Identify six factors that undermine the role of traditional healers today. (6mks)

Modern medicine
Scientific diagnosis of illness
Emergency of new religious faith that stress on prayer and faith healing
Extinction of medical herbs
Competition from foreign herbalists
Influence of western culture
Influence of mass/electronic media
Misconception about their role in society
Inaccessibility due to remote working conditions

Outline duties of healers in traditional African societies.

10/11/2021

Outline duties of healers in traditional African societies (6mks)

Establishing the religious/physical causes of a disease
Offering both herbal and psychological cure to patients
Offering protection against any illness or misfortune by use of charms
Assist in dispelling witchcraft and magic
Guiding and counseling people on various issues
Training other healers/medicine men/women
Presiding over religious functions.

Explain the religious significance of the environment in traditional African society

10/11/2021

Explain the religious significance of the environment in traditional African society. (8mks)

The environment is sacred as its created by God
It’s a religious duty for people to conserve it
Many believe that land is a gift from God to be their home
Environment is the home of Spirit and ancestors
God reveals himself through clouds, earthquakes, heavenly bodies
Some totemic birds, animals, objects and heavenly bodies are seen as sacred.
Occurrences of calamities such as droughts, floods are associated with God’s power
Soil is used in religious oaths
Most rules of passage are linked to the environment
The behavior of certain animals and plants are used to interpreter the weather hence a means of God’s way of communicating with human beings
God provides and sustains his creation through the environment.

Identify seven ways in which Christians can avoid God’s punishment today

10/11/2021

Identify seven ways in which Christians can avoid God’s punishment today. (7mks)

Obey God’s commandments
Preach the good news of Christ to others to change
Condemn all evils in society e.g. corruption
Show love by helping the needy/poor
Being prayerful to avoid temptations
Worshipping God with all sincerity
Asking the Holy Spirit for guidance and protection against evil
Repenting their sins
Forgiving others unconditionally
Preaching peace and reconciliation
Holding fellowships to encourage each other

Show ways in which the church is carrying out its prophetic role in the society today.

10/11/2021

Show ways in which the church is carrying out its prophetic role in the society today. (6mks)

Through preaching the good news/evangelism
Translating the bible into vernacular for people understand
Condemning social evils and rebuking evils in society
Through guidance and counseling
Conducting civic education
Teaching God’s word
Offering medical services
Campaigning for legislation of just laws
Preaching peace and reconciliation
Praying for others/nation to repent
Advising political leaders

Outline six forms of punishment that God would effect on the Israelites if they disobeyed God according to prophet Amos

10/11/2021

Outline six forms of punishment that God would effect on the Israelites if they disobeyed God according to prophet Amos. (6mks)

Would be surrounded by an enemy/foreign nation
Holy places e.g., Bethel would be destroyed
The people would be taken into exile
The rich would lose their wealth
Their land would be occupied by a foreign nation
People would have a hunger for God’s word
Darkness and ellipse would appear and cover the land
There would be earthquakes
Amaziah the false prophet would die by the sword of king Jeroboam II

Give eight reasons why God Sent prophets to Israel.

10/11/2021

Give eight reasons why God Sent prophets to Israel. (8mks)

To teach people about the nature of God
To act as mediators between God and people
To condemned social evils in society
To anoint leaders/kings
To warn people of God’s judgement for sins
To teach people of the covenant way of life
Communicate God’s message to people
To announce restoration/give hope of restoration
To be the conscience of kings
To condemn idolatry and promote monotheism
To act as priests or religious figures

Explain factors that are affecting true worship of God today in Kenya

10/11/2021

Explain factors that are affecting true worship of God today in Kenya. (6mks)

Materialism – people crave for earthly possessions at the expense of spiritual development.
Social injustice – makes people mistrust God or conclude that God has left them
Permissiveness in the society – makes people lose value systems.
Urbanization – leads people to lose their identity and change of values
Influence from print and electronic mechanisms – some people may spent too much time on them
Threats to human life – caused by war, nuclear power, abortion
Suffering – arising from political, social, cultural, economic and religious oppression
Sexual immorality – takes people away from God.
Scientific and technological advancement makes some people place their faith in science to solve all problems instead of turning to God.
Drug and alcohol abuses
Crime – some people behave in crime a lot
Education – leads to arrogance in that some educated believe they know all

Give five reasons why the Exodus was important to the Israelites

10/11/2021

Give five reasons why the Exodus was important to the Israelites (8mks)

It marked the end of their suffering or oppression
It signified that they were special nation (chosen by God)
It was a fulfillment of the promises God had made to Abraham
It proved that God is more powerful than other gods/ supreme
It showed /proved to them that Moses was a chosen leader of God
The exodus united the people of Israel as a nation
It made them understand the nature of God
It taught them that God needed obedience from human beings
They received the Ten Commandments which guided them in their relationships

Outline ways in which God’s love for human beings is manifested after the fall of human kind.

10/11/2021

Outline ways in which God’s love for human beings is manifested after the fall of human kind. (7mks)

God looked human beings when they ran to hide from Him
He provided them with clothing and means of live hood
He put enmity between the snake and the seed of the woman
God put a mark on Cain’s face to protect him
Noah found favor in God
God did not destroy all his creating during the floods
He entered into a covenant with Noah
He gave human beings power to crush the snake as the ultimate victory over
He called Abraham as the beginning for his plan for salvation of human kind

Identify eight activities performed by God in the second account of creation in Gen 2:4- 25

10/11/2021

Identify eight activities performed by God in the second account of creation in Gen2:4- 25 (8mks)

God created heavens and earth
He molded man from soil and gave him the breath of life
He planted the garden of Eden
God put man in the garden of Eden to cultivate and guard it
He commanded man to eat from all trees except from the tree in the middle of the garden.
He created all types of animals and gave them to man to name
He made Adam to go into deep sleep
He created woman from the man’s ribs
He brought the woman to man Adam
God planted all types of trees

Explain four ways in which women leadership is promoted in the church today

9/11/2021

Explain four ways in which women leadership is promoted in the church today (8mks)

Ways through which women leadership is promoted in the church today

Providing education for women/sensitizing women on their rights.
Training women on various church ministries.
In some churches, women are ordained as pastors, reverends/elders
Involving them in teaching/preaching the gospel.
Women are appointed as leaders in church organizational/activities e.g Mothers union/giving sacraments/women’s guild/community fellowship.
They take leadership roles in the guidance/counseling of the youth/church members.
The church allows women to initiate manage self help projects for the needy.
They are made in charge of the community based programmes.
Training women in management skill/ key positions/policy makers in the society.

Explain four ways in which women leadership is promoted in the church today

Give six reasons why some Christians are opposed to women leadership in the church today

9/11/2021

Give six reasons why some Christians are opposed to women leadership in the church today. (6mks)

Why some Christians are opposed to women leadership in the church today.

The woman was the first to find into sin in the story of Adam and Eve.
According to Old Testament teaching the woman was considered ritually unclean during her monthly flow.
Due to African/Jewish culture influence where women were considered lesser beings.
Due to the misinterpretation of the second account of the creation story where a woman was created after man and therefore belief to be inferior/subordinate to man/misinterpretation of the Bible.
God is referred to as a He (Man) and therefore men are held closer to Him in comparison to women.
In ability to carryout duties continuously due to interruption (e.g) pregnancy, child birth, marital obligations.
In ability to women to work under strenuous conditioning/circumstances.
Basing on St Paul’s teaching where he says that women should be silent in church)1 Cori 14:34-36).
The argument is based on the choosing of the twelve apostles of Jesus where all men were.

What role can a Christian play in the national election

9/11/2021

What role can a Christian play in the national election. (6mks)

Role Christians can play in National Elections

Praying for fair/free and just/peaceful elections
Being employed at various levels in and out of polling stations.
Being committed in playing different roles.
Being honest/not fearing intimidation/persecution.
Casting one’s vote.
Educating the masses on their civil rights/obligations
Financing/assisting the government in facilitating smooth and fair elections.
Avoiding situations of confrontations with the government of the day.

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