JAMB Christian Religious Knowledge 1995

43 reviewed questions with answers and explanations.

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Question 1

“Let us make man in our image...” In the statement above, ‘man’ refers to

  1. Eve
  2. Adam
  3. male
  4. male and female
Answer and explanation

D: male and female

Genesis 1:27 explains the human creation in God’s image as male and female. The term in the preceding verse includes both.

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Question 2

In the covenant with Noah, God equates blood with

  1. sacrifice
  2. life
  3. murder
  4. food
Answer and explanation

B: life

Genesis 9:4 identifies the blood with the life of the flesh in the instruction given to Noah.

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Question 3

The covenant with Abraham stipulates that an uncircumcised male shall

  1. not marry in Israel
  2. find it difficult to have a child
  3. not stand before the Lord
  4. be cut off from his people
Answer and explanation

D: be cut off from his people

Genesis 17:14 says an uncircumcised male is to be cut off from his people because he has broken the covenant.

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Question 4

Joseph was hated the more by his brothers because

  1. he was his father’s favourite
  2. he was the first son of Rebecca
  3. of his dreams
  4. his father bought him a coat of many colours.
Answer and explanation

C: of his dreams

Genesis 37 says Joseph’s brothers hated him even more after hearing his dream. Their resentment increased because of the dreams and his words.

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Question 5

Pharaoh set Joseph over all the land of Egypt because he was

  1. a man of vision
  2. compassionate and honest
  3. discreet and wise
  4. of a high moral standard.
Answer and explanation

C: discreet and wise

Pharaoh calls Joseph discerning and wise, then places him over his house and the land. The appointment follows that stated assessment.

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Question 6

In the burning bush, God revealed Himself to Moses as the God of

  1. war
  2. peace
  3. deliverance
  4. fire
Answer and explanation

C: deliverance

At the burning bush God says he has seen Israel’s suffering and has come down to deliver them from Egypt. Deliverance is the role described.

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Question 7

When the Hebrews left Egypt, God did not lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines because

  1. it was far from Canaan
  2. He did not want them to see war and return to Egypt
  3. He wanted to test their faith
  4. the Hebrews went out of Egypt not equipped for war.
Answer and explanation

B: He did not want them to see war and return to Egypt

Exodus 13:17 says God avoided the Philistine route lest the people change their minds when they see war and return to Egypt.

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Question 8

Samuel’s reaction during his first encounter with God showed that he was

  1. inexperienced in dealing with God.
  2. curious
  3. afraid of the voice he heard
  4. misinformed.
Answer and explanation

A: inexperienced in dealing with God.

Samuel repeatedly goes to Eli when called. First Samuel 3:7 explains that he did not yet know the LORD or have the word revealed to him.

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Question 9

From the accounts in the First Book of Samuel, Eli’s attitude to his children showed parental

  1. control
  2. intolerance
  3. weakness
  4. responsibility.
Answer and explanation

C: weakness

First Samuel 3:13 faults Eli for knowing his sons’ wrongdoing but failing to restrain them. This shows weakness in exercising parental responsibility.

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Question 10

David demonstrated his submission to the will of God when he

  1. lamented the death of Saul and Jonathan
  2. prevented the killing of Saul
  3. took Bathsheba as his wife
  4. received Abner in Hebron.
Answer and explanation

B: prevented the killing of Saul

David prevents Abishai from killing Saul and leaves Saul’s fate to the LORD. This restraint expresses submission to God’s decision.

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Question 11

When David repented of his adultery with Bathsheba, he said,

  1. “I have done wrong...”
  2. “I have sinned against the Lord”
  3. “Have mercy on me..”
  4. “The man who has done this deserves to die...”
Answer and explanation

B: “I have sinned against the Lord”

David’s reply to Nathan in 2 Samuel 12:13 is that he has sinned against the LORD. This is his explicit acknowledgement of guilt.

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Question 13

In the first three chapters of the Book of Hosea, his main teaching is that

  1. one can marry a harlot
  2. God loves us despite our sins
  3. one should forgive others
  4. one should keep the commandments of God.
Answer and explanation

B: God loves us despite our sins

Hosea is instructed to love the unfaithful woman as the LORD loves Israel despite its turning to other gods. This illustrates continuing divine love.

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Question 14

The valley of Achor in the Book of Hosea is a door of

  1. love
  2. hope
  3. peace
  4. wisdom.
Answer and explanation

B: hope

Hosea 2:15 calls the valley of Achor a door of hope, presenting a place associated with trouble as an opening for restoration.

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Question 15

“Come, let us return to the Lord; for he has torn, that he may heal us; he has stricken, and he will bind us up.” This call is to encourage

  1. response to God’s love
  2. concern for one’s nation
  3. social justice and true religion
  4. response to the need of the nation.
Answer and explanation

A: response to God’s love

The appeal urges returning to the LORD in hope of healing and restoration. It calls for renewed response to God rather than national advantage.

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Question 17

What did God give to Ezekiel to eat in his vision?

  1. Scroll
  2. bread
  3. Manna
  4. Burning coal.
Answer and explanation

A: Scroll

Ezekiel is told to eat the scroll and then speak to Israel. The scroll is the object he receives and eats in the vision.

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Question 18

Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist

  1. to fulfil the prophecy about Him
  2. so that the heavens could open up blessings for all believers
  3. to fulfil all righteousness
  4. so that the Holy Spirit could descend upon Him.
Answer and explanation

C: to fulfil all righteousness

Jesus answers John’s objection by saying the baptism is fitting to fulfill all righteousness. That is the reason explicitly given.

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Question 19

“Thou art my beloved Son; with thee I am well pleased.” This statement was made during the

  1. transfiguration
  2. ascension
  3. holy week
  4. baptism.
Answer and explanation

D: baptism.

Mark 1 places this direct address from heaven immediately after Jesus’ baptism in the Jordan.

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Question 20

According to the temptation narratives in the gospels according to Matthew and Luke, Jesus overcame Satan because He

  1. depended on the word of God
  2. was too wise for Satan
  3. knew Satan’s tactics
  4. was the Son of God.
Answer and explanation

A: depended on the word of God

In both accounts Jesus answers each temptation with scriptural teaching. His responses rely on obedience to God’s word.

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Question 21

“Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners? On what occasion was this question asked?”

  1. Following the call of Matthew
  2. When Jesus ate in the house of Zacchaeus.
  3. When Jesus fed the multitude
  4. Following the invitation of Jesus to a meal by a Pharisee.
Answer and explanation

A: Following the call of Matthew

Matthew 9 places the meal and the Pharisees’ question immediately after Jesus calls Matthew from the tax booth.

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Question 22

“Follow me and leave the dead to bury their own dead” By this statement, Jesus means that

  1. disciples should not attend burials
  2. there is no life after death
  3. following Him comes before anything else
  4. disciples should leave their families in God’s care.
Answer and explanation

C: following Him comes before anything else

The reply makes following Jesus an immediate priority over the requested delay. It emphasizes the urgency of discipleship.

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Question 23

The disciples became terrified when they saw Jesus walking on the sea because

  1. they thought He would drown
  2. they thought He was a ghost
  3. they lacked faith
  4. there was great storm in the sea.
Answer and explanation

B: they thought He was a ghost

Matthew 14:26 says the disciples were troubled because they thought the figure walking on the sea was a ghost.

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Question 24

By the miracle of raising Lazarus to life, Jesus wanted to

  1. demonstrate His love for Lazarus
  2. reward Mary and Martha for their charity
  3. convince the people that He was the LORD of life
  4. seek self-glorification.
Answer and explanation

C: convince the people that He was the LORD of life

Jesus identifies himself as the resurrection and life, and prays that the people may believe before calling Lazarus out. The sign demonstrates life-giving authority.

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Question 25

The Jews sought all the more to kill Jesus after the healing of the man at the pool of Bethzatha because they thought that He

  1. claimed to have authority to forgive sins
  2. made Himself equal with God
  3. did not agree with the law of Moses
  4. said that He was born before Abraham.
Answer and explanation

B: made Himself equal with God

John 5:18 says the intensified attempt to kill Jesus followed his calling God his own Father, which they understood as making himself equal with God.

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Question 26

In the gospel according to Matthew, the disciples could not heal the epileptic boy because

  1. they had little faith
  2. they did not pray enough
  3. the boy’s father had no faith in them
  4. Jesus was not present.
Answer and explanation

A: they had little faith

Matthew 17:20 explicitly answers the disciples’ question by referring to their unbelief or little faith. Matthew’s reason is the focus here.

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Question 27

In the parable of the sower, the seed which fell on rocky ground refers to people whose conversion is

  1. Unfruitful
  2. genuine
  3. superficial
  4. lasting.
Answer and explanation

C: superficial

The rocky-ground hearers receive the word joyfully but have no root and fall away under trouble. Superficial describes this lack of lasting depth.

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Question 29

Turning the other cheek as preached by Jesus, implies that believers should

  1. never retaliate
  2. retaliate proportionately
  3. love one another
  4. love their enemies.
Answer and explanation

A: never retaliate

Jesus contrasts retaliation with turning the other cheek. The immediate instruction rejects answering injury with corresponding injury.

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Question 30

According to Matthew’s account of the gospel, Jesus charged the twelve disciples to give without pay because they themselves

  1. were to be perfect
  2. would be fed by others
  3. would be repaid by God
  4. had freely received.
Answer and explanation

D: had freely received.

Matthew 10:8 joins giving freely with having received freely. The disciples are to extend what they received without charging for it.

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Question 31

Which disciples were with Jesus during the transfiguration?

  1. Peter, James and Andrew
  2. John, James and Philip
  3. Peter, James and John
  4. Andrew, Thomas and John.
Answer and explanation

C: Peter, James and John

Mark 9:2 names Peter, James and John as the three Jesus takes up the mountain for the transfiguration.

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Question 32

Jesus wept over Jerusalem because

  1. the people did not believe in Him
  2. the city did not know the things that made for peace
  3. people were buying and selling in the temple
  4. the Pharisees and the priests had misled the people.
Answer and explanation

B: the city did not know the things that made for peace

Luke 19 records Jesus weeping and saying Jerusalem had failed to know the things belonging to its peace.

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Question 33

In the Gospel according to Luke, the multitude that followed Jesus during the triumphal entry rejoiced and praised God with a loud voice because

  1. they realized that Jesus was a prophet from Nazareth
  2. of the mighty works that they had seen done by Jesus.
  3. Jesus was for the first time riding on a colt
  4. they believed that Jesus would deliver them from the hands of their enemies.
Answer and explanation

B: of the mighty works that they had seen done by Jesus.

Luke 19:37 explicitly says the disciples praised God for all the mighty works they had seen.

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Question 34

Jesus did not appeal to His Father for legions of angels to fight for Him because

  1. it was not proper for angels to physically fight human beings.
  2. He could, on His own, avoid the cross
  3. He wanted the scriptures to be fulfilled
  4. the disciples were watching and praying.
Answer and explanation

C: He wanted the scriptures to be fulfilled

Jesus says he could ask the Father for angels, but then asks how the Scriptures would be fulfilled. Fulfillment explains his refusal.

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Question 35

What did Pilate achieve by sending Jesus to Herod?

  1. He escaped the anger of the Jews
  2. Jesus was not killed in his hands
  3. Herod and Pilate became friends
  4. He was able to pacify the Jews.
Answer and explanation

C: Herod and Pilate became friends

Luke 23:12 says Herod and Pilate became friends that very day, having previously been enemies.

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Question 36

Which of Jesus’ word on the cross led a bystander to give him vinegar?

  1. “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.”
  2. “Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit.”
  3. “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me”
  4. “It is finished.”
Answer and explanation

C: “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me”

Mark records the cry of abandonment, listeners thinking Jesus calls Elijah, and someone then offering sour wine on a sponge.

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Question 37

When Jesus said that Lazarus would rise again, Martha thought that

  1. Jesus would raise her brother from the dead
  2. her brother would rise again at the last day
  3. Jesus was talking of his own resurrection
  4. He was talking of spiritual resurrection.
Answer and explanation

B: her brother would rise again at the last day

Martha answers that she knows Lazarus will rise in the resurrection on the last day. She initially understands the promise in that future sense.

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Question 39

The event of the day of Pentecost was prophesied by

  1. Jonah
  2. Joel
  3. Jeremiah
  4. Micah.
Answer and explanation

B: Joel

Peter introduces his explanation of Pentecost by saying this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel.

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Question 41

The Christian concept of Justification is that

  1. through faith in Jesus the sinner is now regarded by God as guiltless
  2. by one’s efforts in keeping the law, man is now perfect before God
  3. through his own knowledge, man can now do what is pleasing to God
  4. by his natural wisdom, a sinner could be reconciled to God.
Answer and explanation

A: through faith in Jesus the sinner is now regarded by God as guiltless

Romans 3 describes justification as God’s gracious gift received through faith, rather than a result of personal mastery of the law.

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Question 42

According to Paul, those who rely on the works of the law are under a curse since

  1. the law is made for the weak
  2. the law brings about salvation
  3. none can fully keep the law
  4. the works of the law are of the devil.
Answer and explanation

C: none can fully keep the law

Galatians requires complete observance of the law and says no one is justified by it. Paul’s account of universal sin explains the failure to meet that requirement.

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Question 43

According to the Letter of Paul to the Romans, sin reigned in death, while grace reigned through righteousness to

  1. salvation
  2. eternal life
  3. eternal peace
  4. eternal joy.
Answer and explanation

B: eternal life

Romans 5:21 says grace reigns through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ. Eternal life completes the comparison.

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Question 44

Christians believe that they are children of God because

  1. they keep the laws and covenants of Abraham as commanded by God.
  2. they are church goers and benefactors
  3. they are descendants of Abraham Isaac and Jacob
  4. through faith, they were baptized into Christ and put on Christ.
Answer and explanation

D: through faith, they were baptized into Christ and put on Christ.

Galatians 3 links being children of God through faith with being baptized into Christ and putting on Christ.

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Question 45

Christians ought to be humble because

  1. the law commanded it absolutely
  2. Jesus Christ demonstrated it
  3. It is a spiritual gift
  4. only the humble will inherit eternal life.
Answer and explanation

B: Jesus Christ demonstrated it

Philippians 2 presents Christ’s humility as the pattern for believers’ own attitude. His example grounds the call to humility.

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Question 46

According to Paul, spiritual gifts, if properly employed, help in

  1. attracting converts
  2. hastening miracles
  3. identifying evil doers
  4. edifying the church.
Answer and explanation

D: edifying the church.

Paul urges believers eager for spiritual gifts to seek to excel in building up the church. Edification is the stated purpose.

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Question 47

Paul advised Christians in Thessalonica to keep away from any brother who is

  1. living in sin
  2. very stingy in giving
  3. living in idleness
  4. not proclaiming the gospel.
Answer and explanation

C: living in idleness

Second Thessalonians addresses disorderly living and explains the problem as unwillingness to work. The instruction concerns those living in idleness.

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Question 49

Which of the following commandments is described by James as the royal law?

  1. You shall have no other gods before me
  2. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart.
  3. You shall love your neighbour as yourself.
  4. You shall not covet your neighbour’s property.
Answer and explanation

C: You shall love your neighbour as yourself.

James 2:8 explicitly calls loving your neighbour as yourself the royal law according to Scripture.

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