Paper III & II: Objective & Essay - Christian Religious Studies 10:00am - 12:30pm
8a)
- anticipating hardships belivers are enjoined by peter to endure suffering with christ like faith
- christains should conduct themselves without fear. In this they might be futher identified with christ who himself endured suffering
- christians should rejoice when suffering for christ sake because through suffering christians share with christ
- No matter what trials christians were to do nothing that would justify them as criminals
- anything that we suffer for christ is a privilage not a penalty
- do not be ashamed if you suffer as a christian
- peter encourages the christians to endure suffering just as christ did
8b)
- persecution should be regarded as mark of the christian faith
- christ and his apostles are points of reference for christians when it comes to persecution
- pesecution should come to us because we preach christ
- pesecution should be received with joy
1a)
Jericho had closed its gates because of the
Israelites, and no one went in or out. But
Jehovah said to Joshua, "See, I have given
Jericho to you with its king and its able
warriors. You shall march around the city, all
the soldiers going about the city once. You
shall do this for six days, and on the seventh
day the people shall make the attack, each
man going up straight before him."
Then Joshua said to the people, "March
around the city and let the armed men pass
on before the ark of Jehovah. You shall not
shout the battle-cry nor let your voice be
heard; not a word shall escape from your
mouth until the day I say to you, 'Shout the
battle-cry'; then you shall shout!"
So he had the ark of Jehovah carried around
the city once; then they returned to the
camp and spent the night there. The second
day they also marched around the city once
and returned to the camp. Thus they did six
days. The seventh day they rose early at
dawn and made the circuit of the city in the
same way, only on that day they marched
about the city seven times. The seventh time
the priests blew the trumpets, and Joshua
said to the people, "Shout the battle-cry; for
Jehovah has given you the city. The city and
all that is in it shall be sacrificed to Jehovah;
only Rahab and those who are with her in her
house shall live, because she hid the
messengers whom we sent."
So the people shouted the battle-cry and the
wall fell down and they went straight up into
the city and captured it. But Joshua spared
the lives of Rahab and her father's family
and all that she had, because she hid the
messengers whom Joshua sent to explore
Jericho; and they have lived among the
Israelites even to this day.
(1b)
(i) The miraculous power of God
(ii) It teaches us several grand truths
regarding God’s grace and our salvation
(iii) Help brings forth life like that of Rahab's
household
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(4a)
The cleansing of the temple occure during the last week of Jesus' ministry. Jesus rode into jerusalem. The cleansing was to show that God's judgment was operative through the messiah the area where the buying and selling was going on was a big area in the temple is very close to the area of the gentiles.
There were two currencies for passover pilgirms namely the temple and the roman currency used outside the temple. He told them "it is written 'my house shall be called a house of prayer. But dont make it den of robbers, they said ro Jesus "Do you hear what these are saying?
"Jesus answered yes. The chief priest and the scriber regarded Jesus as a dangerous threats to their way of life
(4b)
(i) The event is an object of prophecy as in the old testament about Jesus to show what kind of messiah he is
(iv) Jesus is not political messiah but a man of war.
(iii) the people shouted "hosanna to the son of david" showing his kingship
