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SECTION B: ESSAY QUESTIONS
Answer FOUR Questions: ONE from each Course
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CRS 001: OLD TESTAMENT STUDIES
(2a)
Saul’s life and reign are described primarily in the Hebrew Bible. According to the text, he was anointed by the prophet Samuel and reigned from Gibeah. Saul is sent with a servant to look for his father’s strayed donkeys. Leaving his home at Gibeah, they eventually arrive at the district of Zuph, at which point Saul suggests abandoning their search. Saul’s servant tells him that they happen to be near the town of Ramah, where a famous seer is located, and suggests that they should consult him first. The seer which was Samuel offers hospitality to Saul and later anoints him in private. A popular movement having arisen to establish a centralized monarchy like other nations, Samuel assembles the people at Mizpah in Benjamin to appoint a king, fulfilling his previous promise to do so. Samuel organises the people by tribe and by clan. Using the Urim and Thummim, he selects the tribe of Benjamin, from within the tribe selecting the clan of Matri, and from them selecting Saul. After having been chosen as monarch, Saul returns to his home in Gibeah, along with a number of followers. However, some of the people are openly unhappy with the selection of Saul.
(2b)
(i) He became impatient and offered sacrifices to God at Gilgal instead of waiting for Prophet Samuel, 1 Samuel 13:1 – 14. He assumed priestly duties by offering sacrifices.
(ii) He disobeyed God’s command and failed to carry out the law of total destruction of a conquered enemy. The Law of herem or the ban in 1 Sam 15:1 – 23 failing to destroy everything during the mission against the Amalekites.
(iii) The spirit of God left Saul and was replaced by an evil spirit which tormented him and made him like a madman in 1 Sam 16:14
(iv) He was jealous of David for his success as a warrior in 1 Sam 18:7 – 8, 19:1 – 22.
(v) He massacred the Gibeonites contrary to an Oath taken during the time of Joshua.
(vi) Saul committed the sin of necromancy when he consulted a medium after the death of Samuel in 1 Samuel 28:3 – 25.
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CRS 002: NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES
(4a)
The Synoptic Problem is the problem of the literary relationships among the first three “Synoptic” Gospels. The gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke are referred to as the synoptic Gospels because they include many of the same stories, often in a similar sequence and similar or sometimes identical wording. They stand in contrast to John, whose content is largely distinct. Matthew, Mark, and Luke are called “Synoptic Gospels” because they can be “seen together” syn-optic and displayed in three parallel columns. The three gospels contain many of the same stories and are often related in the same relative sequence but there are also important differences in the wording of individual stories and sayings, in the ordering of some materials, and the overall extent of each gospel.
(4b)
Draw the diagram of the two documentary hypothesis
(4c)
The argument used to support the view for Markian priority is the strong evidence that both Luke and Matthew redacted Mark’s material. If Mark were a summary of Matthew, we would expect it to smooth out any rough edges. The reverse is true. In the triple tradition, it’s invariably Mark that has the rough edges that are smoothed out by Luke and Matthew.
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CRS 003: HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN WEST AFRICA
(6)
Pentecostalism began in Nigeria during the early twentieth century as a renewal movement to the prominent mission churches in Africa. At first, the growth of Pentecostalism was due to the efforts to break free from Western missionary control. This resulted in the popularity of many African Initiated churches, which focused on prophecy and healing. The second wave of Pentecostalism arose as a result of the Nigerian Civil War among students and young people who belonged to Pentecostal churches, mainline churches, and the Scripture Union. Pentecostal churches, especially large charismatic churches have become popular in Nigeria, competing for membership with Catholic churches and other Christian confessions. A growing number of Nigerian students shrive Catholicism and Pentecostalism at the same time. Nigeria has the largest population of Pentecostals in Africa and, in a study from 2006, three out of ten Nigerians identify as either Pentecostal or Charismatic. Since Islam is prevalent in Nigeria, there exists a tension between the Northern Hausa-Fulani, who are predominantly Muslim, the Eastern Igbo, who are predominantly Christian, and the Western Yoruba, whose population is divided among the two religions. Nonetheless, the Christian population has continued to grow in Nigeria.
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CRS 004: RELIGION AND CHRISTIANITY
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The Babylonian exile was the first time since the giving of the Torah that the Jewish nation found itself living outside of the Land of Israel. After approximately 850 years of autonomous rule in the Land, they were now strangers in an unfamiliar place. This exile acted as the prototype for the future exiles of the following two millenia.
Babylonia in 4th century BCE was a land so awash with paganism that the Midrash relates that those Jews who had previously worshipped idols in the Land of Israel found that the very dust of Babylon was steeped in idol worship. This actually shocked those exiled Jews into returning to the ways of the Torah.
An additional factor in the Jewish exiles’ return to Torah observance was the disappearance of false prophets. In the Land of Israel, ruled by Jewish kings, false prophets emerged, mainly out of self-interest. If a prophet could
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*Leaving the Loom*
At eleven years of age Mary began to work in the spinning and weaving mills, toiling from six to six. When, in the year 1873, the news came from Africa that "Livingstone is dead," Mary was about twenty-five years old. She asked her mother if she might go to Africa as a missionary.
In 1875 she sent her application to the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland, offering herself as a missionary for Calabar. She was accepted on the condition that she take a few brief studies at a normal school in Edinburgh. On the fifth of August, 1876, she sailed for Calabar, Africa.
The first duty of Mary Slessor was to study and learn the trade language called Efik. From her very first contact with the natives her heart was deeply touched because of the cruel treatment they received from their chief. They were whipped, sold, and killed.
Although Mary was not highly trained academically, she had the capacity of an ardent student and a ready learner. She realized that the principal reason for her coming to Africa was to lead people to Christ and train them to continue the work after she was gone. The boys and girls had to be taught to read and write. The abused and mistreated people had to be defended. And Mary had to win the confidence of both the heathen chief and the foreign authority. She knew that she had to live a Christian life as well as preach the truth concerning God and redemption through Christ before the natives would accept her teaching and her Saviour.
*Saving the Little Ones*
Witchcraft and heathen customs among the people were most difficult to overcome. For instance, the birth of twins meant a triple death—unless Mary Slessor arrived in time to prevent the murder. The mother of the twins was considered to be possessed of an evil spirit and she, together with the twins, would be killed. Mary would plead for the mother and often take the twins to her own humble home. It was her joy to influence the old chief to declare unlawful the murder of twins.
Mary Slessor's great desire in her missionary work was to go to "the regions beyond" to preach and live the gospel of Christ where messengers of the Cross had not been, and to render a service for Christ which up to that time had not been attempted. On her long trips through the jungles and in canoes on the rivers among the cannibals, she was often found barefoot, carrying in her arms twin babies whom she "had rescued from being murdered.
Because of her excellent judgment, her love for the people, and the confidence the High Commissioner of the government had in her opinion, she was asked to sit in their courts. In the district Ibibio she was requested to be in charge of the affairs of the courts, a position she held until November, 1909, when her health did not permit her to continue.
She supervised the construction of humble schoolhouses and churches. On her three brief furlough trips home she not only recuperated physically but was also able to represent effectively the need of the mission field, the claims of Christ, and her need of prayer. She would often repeat, "It is not Mary Slessor, but God and our united prayers that have brought the blessings to Calabar. Christ shall have all the honor and glory for the multitudes saved."
*Everybody's Mother*
Critically ill with a fever in the early part of January, 1915, she became unconscious. A doctor from the Slessor hospital came to minister to the physical needs of Mary Slessor, but the day for her departure was drawing near. In her dying hour, surrounded by the native Christian girls and women, she was praying in Efik, the language of the people she had served. In the early morning of January 13, 1915, she went to be with the Lord. The natives cried bitterly, "Our mother is dead. Everybody's mother has left us." The coffin was draped with the British flag and brought to Duke Town for burial.
Many Christians have been challenged to follow and serve Christ by Mary Slessor, who began her missionary work under such unfavorable circumstances, but finished it after bringing multitudes to Christ. God still specializes in doing the impossible through human instruments who will say: "Not my plans, not my glory, but God's plan, and His glory."
"God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty...things which are despised, hath God chosen" (I Cor. 1:27-28).
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Mary Slessor wrote to a friend who had long prayed for her: "I have always said that I have no idea how or why God has carried me over so many funny and hard places, and made these hordes of people submit to me, or why the Government should have given me the privilege of a Magistrate among them, except in answer to prayer made at home for me. It is all beyond my comprehension. The only way I can explain it is on the ground that I have been prayed for more than most. Pray on, dear one—the power lies that way."
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On another occasion she wrote: "Prayer is the greatest power God has put into our hands for service—praying is harder than doing, at least I find it so, but the dynamic lies that way to advance the Kingdom."
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Concerned about the purposeless lives of some women in the homeland, she advised them, in words which may well be the secret of her own life of blessing: "Gird yourself for the battle outside somewhere, and keep your heart young. Give up your whole being to create music somewhere, in the light places and in the dark places, and your life will make melody."
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