JAMB Christian Religious Knowledge 2001

43 reviewed questions with answers and explanations.

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Question 1

What did Saul do after his defeat of the Amalekites:

  1. He set up a monument for himself
  2. He returned to Shiloh
  3. He offered sacrifices to god
  4. He repented to his sins
Answer and explanation

A: He set up a monument for himself

First Samuel 15:12 reports that Saul went to Carmel and set up a monument for himself after the campaign.

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Question 2

“Let us flee from before Israel: for the Lord fights for them…” the statement above was made by the Egyptian when

  1. Moses stretched out his hand over the sea
  2. their chariots were clogged in the sea
  3. the LORD drove the sea back by a strong east wind.
  4. the angel of God stood between them and Hebrews
Answer and explanation

B: their chariots were clogged in the sea

The Egyptians call for retreat when their chariot wheels are troubled and driving becomes difficult, recognizing that the LORD fights for Israel.

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Question 3

Moses told the Israelites that the LORD would give them flesh in the evening and bread in the morning because he had

  1. heard their prayers
  2. seen their suffering
  3. promised to feed them
  4. heard their murmuring
Answer and explanation

D: heard their murmuring

Moses says the evening flesh and morning bread come because the LORD has heard the people’s complaints against him.

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Question 5

‘The LORD give you children by this woman. Eli offered this prayer because of Hannah’s

  1. love for the service
  2. loan of Samuel to the lord
  3. desire for more children from GOD
  4. faith in GOD
Answer and explanation

B: loan of Samuel to the lord

Eli’s blessing asks for children in connection with the child Hannah had dedicated to the LORD. The prayer follows that dedication.

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Question 6

The river that flowed out of Eden to water the garden divided and became four rivers namely

  1. Nile, Pishon, Euphrates and Tigris
  2. Pishon, Tigris, Gihon and Nile
  3. Gihon, Pishon, Tigris and Euphrates
  4. Pishon, Euphrates, Gihon and Jordan.
Answer and explanation

C: Gihon, Pishon, Tigris and Euphrates

Genesis names the four rivers as Pishon, Gihon, Hiddekel or Tigris, and Euphrates. Option C contains all four.

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Question 7

King Rehoboam refused to take the counsel of the elders because

  1. it was wrong counsel
  2. he was afraid of the outcome of their counsel
  3. he was stubborn
  4. it was a turn of affairs brought about by the LORD
Answer and explanation

D: it was a turn of affairs brought about by the LORD

First Kings 12:15 interprets Rehoboam’s refusal as a turn of affairs from the LORD fulfilling the word spoken through Ahijah.

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Question 8

King Saul asked Jesse to send David to him because he wanted David to

  1. kill goliath
  2. marry his daughter, Michal
  3. become Jonathan’s friend
  4. serve him
Answer and explanation

D: serve him

Saul sends for David, who enters his service, and asks Jesse to let David remain attending him because he has found favour.

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Question 9

The new covenant God made with the house of Israel and the house of Judah was written on

  1. their hearts
  2. stones
  3. their foreheads
  4. tablets
Answer and explanation

A: their hearts

Jeremiah’s new-covenant promise places God’s law within the people and writes it on their hearts.

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Question 11

The sign of the covenant between God and Noah for all future generations was

  1. blood
  2. treaty of peace
  3. circumcision
  4. bow in the cloud
Answer and explanation

D: bow in the cloud

God identifies the bow in the cloud as the sign of the covenant for future generations.

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Question 12

The signs that God showed to Moses at his call were meant to

  1. convince the people that he had been sent by God
  2. portray him as superior to the Egyptian magicians
  3. enable him to perform miracles before Pharaoh
  4. convince Pharaoh that he was the prophet of God
Answer and explanation

A: convince the people that he had been sent by God

Exodus 4:5 states that the signs are given so the people may believe that the God of their ancestors has appeared to Moses.

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Question 13

King Josiah defiled Topheth in the valley of the sons of Hinnom during his reform so that

  1. he might revive the worship of the sun God
  2. he might pull down Topheth and break Molech into pieces
  3. no one would worship Molech
  4. no one might sacrifice human beings again to Molech
Answer and explanation

D: no one might sacrifice human beings again to Molech

The verse explicitly says Josiah defiled Topheth so that no one would make a son or daughter pass through fire to Molech.

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Question 14

Amos declared that the Jews who built houses of Hewn stone would not dwell in them because they

  1. trampled upon the poor
  2. persecuted the prophets
  3. swore falsely
  4. worshipped other gods
Answer and explanation

A: trampled upon the poor

Amos connects the loss of their stone houses with trampling the poor and taking grain levies from them.

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Question 16

God promised the faithless Isrealites that if they repented of their sins and returned to Him. He would

  1. deliver their enemies into their hands
  2. fill them with his knowledge
  3. give them favour in the sight of the nations
  4. give them shepherds after his own heart
Answer and explanation

D: give them shepherds after his own heart

God calls the faithless children to return and promises shepherds after his own heart who will feed them with knowledge.

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Question 17

“........When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the LORD; and my prayer came to thee.. ” The prayer above was offered by Jonah

  1. at Nineveh
  2. at Tarshish
  3. in the ship
  4. in the belly of the fish
Answer and explanation

D: in the belly of the fish

Jonah’s prayer is introduced as being offered from the fish’s belly. Verse 7 contains the recollection quoted in the question.

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Question 18

“The ark of the God of Israel must not remain with us…” The Philistines were anxious to get rid of the ark because

  1. they could not handle it
  2. the hand of God was heavy upon them
  3. their women were becoming barren
  4. the Israelites had mustered forces against them
Answer and explanation

B: the hand of God was heavy upon them

The people of Ashdod say the ark must leave because God’s hand is heavy on them and their god Dagon.

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Question 19

“At the time shall arise.... the great prince who has charge of your people.......” in the statement above by Daniel, the great prince refers to

  1. Gabriel
  2. the Deliverer
  3. Michael
  4. the Messiah
Answer and explanation

C: Michael

Daniel 12:1 names Michael as the great prince standing over the people at that time.

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Question 20

According to Hosea, the LORD would not hav pity upon the children of his faithless wife because

  1. they were rebellious children
  2. they had not been faithful
  3. their mother had not shown pity on them
  4. their mother had played the harlot
Answer and explanation

D: their mother had played the harlot

Hosea links the refusal of compassion with the children being children of prostitution and their mother’s unfaithfulness.

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Question 21

God decided not to bring evil in Ahab’s days but in the days of son because Ahab

  1. asked God for mercy
  2. returned Naboth’s vineyard
  3. fasted for forty days
  4. humbled himself before God
Answer and explanation

D: humbled himself before God

God says the disaster will be delayed because Ahab has humbled himself before him. The reason is explicitly stated.

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Question 23

When the Babylonians captured King Zedekiah, they

  1. killed him immediately
  2. assaulted his wives in his presence
  3. put out his eyes
  4. took his sons to Babylon
Answer and explanation

C: put out his eyes

The Babylonians kill Zedekiah’s sons before him, put out his eyes and take him bound to Babylon.

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Question 24

The men who threw Shadrach, Meshach and Abedenego into the fire were

  1. amazed that the Hebrews were not burnt
  2. assisted to escape from being burnt
  3. promoted by the king
  4. consumed by the flames
Answer and explanation

D: consumed by the flames

Daniel 3:22 says the intense flame kills the men who take the three into the furnace.

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Question 25

“Hear this word, you cows of Bashan... who oppress the poor, who crush the needy...” cows of Bashan in the statement above refers to the

  1. wicked kings
  2. women of Samaria
  3. Judges in Israel
  4. false prophets
Answer and explanation

B: women of Samaria

Amos addresses the cows of Bashan on the mountain of Samaria who oppress the poor and demand drink from their husbands. This identifies the women of Samaria.

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Question 26

“It is enough; now O LORD, take away my life; for I am no better than my fathers.” the prayer above was said by Elijah when

  1. ran out of food
  2. had no water to drink at the brook Cherith
  3. learnt that Ahab was looking for him
  4. was threatened by Jezebel
Answer and explanation

D: was threatened by Jezebel

Jezebel threatens Elijah’s life, and he flees into the wilderness, where he asks to die. The prayer follows her threat.

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Question 27

In his effort to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem, Nehemiah prayed against insults of

  1. Tobiah and Sanballat
  2. Amon and Shallum
  3. Nebuchadnezzer and Tobiah
  4. Geshem and Hulda
Answer and explanation

A: Tobiah and Sanballat

Sanballat and Tobiah mock the rebuilding effort, after which Nehemiah prays that God hear how the people are despised.

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Question 28

According to Luke, Jesus healed the epileptic boy by

  1. telling the boy to have faith
  2. rebuking the unclean spirit
  3. binding the evil spirite in him
  4. touching the boy
Answer and explanation

B: rebuking the unclean spirit

Luke says Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the child and gave him back to his father.

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Question 29

According to Luke Jesus last words on the cross were

  1. “I thirst”
  2. “Woman, behold your son”
  3. “father, into thy hands I commit my spirit”
  4. “father , forgive them; for they know not what they do”
Answer and explanation

C: “father, into thy hands I commit my spirit”

Luke records Jesus committing his spirit into the Father’s hands immediately before breathing his last.

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Question 30

‘Father Abraham, have mercy upon me, and send Lazarus..... Abraham could not grant the rich man’s request because’

  1. the rich man lived in luxury while on earth
  2. there was a chasm between them
  3. he had no pity on the rich man
  4. his dogs used to lick Lazaurus’s sores
Answer and explanation

B: there was a chasm between them

Abraham says a great chasm prevents crossing from either side. This makes the requested transfer impossible.

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Question 31

In the story of the transfiguration of Jesus, Moses, Elijah represented the

  1. Old testament saints
  2. glory of God
  3. end of the age
  4. law and the prophets
Answer and explanation

D: law and the prophets

Moses is associated with the law and Elijah with prophecy. Their appearance connects Jesus’ ministry with these two parts of Scripture.

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Question 32

“…He who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep…” The door in this statement refers to

  1. the law
  2. the gospel
  3. Peter
  4. Jesus
Answer and explanation

D: Jesus

Jesus explicitly identifies himself as the door for the sheep in John 10:7 and 10:9.

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Question 34

The Jewish religious leaders arrested and imprisoned the apostles the second time because

  1. they performed miracles in the name of Jesus
  2. they disobeyed the law
  3. the high priest and the Sadducees excused them of treason
  4. the high priest and the Sadducees were jealous
Answer and explanation

D: the high priest and the Sadducees were jealous

Acts says the high priest and Sadducees were filled with jealousy and then arrested the apostles.

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Question 35

After the mission of the seventy, Jesus declared that he had given

  1. the gift of healing
  2. power over the roman authorities
  3. authority over all the power of the enemy
  4. the gift of knowledge of the word
Answer and explanation

C: authority over all the power of the enemy

Jesus says he has given authority over all the power of the enemy. This follows the seventy’s return.

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Question 36

Jesus did not go immediately to attend to Lazarus who has reported sick because he

  1. wanted His disciples to believe in Him
  2. was too busy attending to other people
  3. did not know how serious the sickness was
  4. cared little about Lazarus
Answer and explanation

A: wanted His disciples to believe in Him

Jesus remains where he is and later says he is glad he was not there for the disciples’ sake, so that they may believe.

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Question 37

In the parable of the wheat and tares, the harvest time refers to the

  1. white judgement throne
  2. millennium reign of christ
  3. tribulation period
  4. close of the age
Answer and explanation

D: close of the age

Jesus’ interpretation names the harvest as the end of the age. The reapers are identified as angels.

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Question 38

Peter teaches that good Christian conduct is characterized by love and

  1. impartial judgement
  2. forbearance
  3. fear of God
  4. hardwork
Answer and explanation

C: fear of God

First Peter joins love of the brotherhood with fear of God in its concise instructions for Christian conduct.

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Question 40

Peter advises the elders to tend the flock of God with

  1. authority and compassion
  2. a willing and cheerful heart
  3. knowledge and understanding
  4. zeal and credibilty
Answer and explanation

B: a willing and cheerful heart

Peter tells elders to tend the flock willingly and eagerly, rather than under compulsion or for dishonest gain.

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Question 41

Paul warned the Thessalonians against the deciet of false teachers concerning

  1. their salvation in Christ
  2. activities of the man of sins
  3. the resurrection of the dead
  4. the second coming of Christ
Answer and explanation

D: the second coming of Christ

Paul warns against deceptive messages claiming the day of the Lord has already come. The topic is Christ’s coming and the gathering to him.

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Question 42

Paul described the gifts he received from the Philipians as

  1. peace offering
  2. treasure in heaven
  3. pleasing to God
  4. free will offering
Answer and explanation

C: pleasing to God

Paul calls the gifts an acceptable sacrifice pleasing to God. This is his explicit description of the offering.

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Question 43

According to Paul, the purpose of the law is

  1. to increase the knowledge of sin
  2. tobring about justification by the faith
  3. the fulfilment of divine promise
  4. to promote the faith in the cruccified Christ
Answer and explanation

A: to increase the knowledge of sin

Romans 3:20 says that through the law comes knowledge of sin, contrasting this with justification by works of the law.

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Question 44

The man who stirred up the people against Paul in Ephesus was

  1. Alexander
  2. Aristarchus
  3. Demetrius
  4. Gaius
Answer and explanation

C: Demetrius

Demetrius gathers the craftsmen and stirs concern about Paul’s preaching harming their trade and the worship of Artemis.

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Question 45

Paul teaches that believers have been buried and raised with Christ so that they might

  1. adhere to the law
  2. walk in the newness of life
  3. grow in the knowledge of Christ
  4. walk in liberty
Answer and explanation

B: walk in the newness of life

Paul connects burial with Christ through baptism and his resurrection with believers walking in newness of life.

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Question 46

According to James, because believers hold the faith of the lord Jesus Christ, they should

  1. not show partiality
  2. not yield to temptation
  3. pray for one another
  4. overcome evil with good.
Answer and explanation

A: not show partiality

James opens this instruction by telling believers not to hold faith in Jesus Christ with partiality.

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Question 48

According to Paul, God would send a strong delusion upon those who will perish because they

  1. did not show love to the brethren
  2. had an unforgiving spirit
  3. were false teachers
  4. refused to believe the truth
Answer and explanation

D: refused to believe the truth

The passage connects the strong delusion with refusing the truth that would save them and taking pleasure in unrighteousness.

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Question 49

According to Romans, justification is by faith through

  1. obedience to the law
  2. works righteousness
  3. Being filled with the Holy Spirit
  4. redemption in Christ
Answer and explanation

D: redemption in Christ

Romans describes justification through the redemption in Christ Jesus and faith in his atoning work.

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Question 50

Peter teaches that Christians should prepare for the day of the Lord by

  1. giving aims to the poor
  2. having sober reflection
  3. living holy and godly lives
  4. fasting and praying.
Answer and explanation

C: living holy and godly lives

Second Peter calls for holy conduct and godliness while looking for the coming day of God.

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