Description
The document contains a set of Christian Religious Education notes for the first form, first edition.
The table of contents outlines the topics covered in the document. The main sections include:
- Introduction to Christian Religious Education
- Meaning of Christian Religious Education
- The Bible
- What is the Bible?
- The Bible as a library
- Human Authors
- Major Divisions of the Bible
- Divisions of the Old Testament
- Law books
- Historical Books
- Poetic books
- Prophetic books
- Divisions of the New Testament
- Biographical Books
- Historical Books
- Pauline Epistles
- General Epistles
- Prophetic books
- Divisions of the Old Testament
- Translations of the Bible from Original Languages to Present Local Languages
- Versions of the Bible used in Kenya Today
- The effects of the translation of the Bible into African languages
- Areas/places where the Bible is used in Kenya today
- Ways in which Christians use the Bible to spread the gospel
- Reasons why Christians use the Bible in worship
- Creation and the Fall of Humankind
- First Account of creation
- The meaning of Biblical Accounts of creation
- Comparison between the two accounts of creation
- Responsibilities given to human beings at creation
- Relationship between human beings and the environment from the creation stories
- Teachings about human beings from the Biblical creation accounts
- Teachings about marriage from the biblical stories of creation
- Ways in which Christians continue with God’s work of creation
- Reasons as to why man is considered the most special creation of God
- Traditional African View of Creation
- Common ideas in Traditional African views of creation
- Similarities between the traditional African myths and the Biblical accounts of creation
- Differences between the traditional African myths of origin and the Biblical creation stories/African myths
- Teachings from the Biblical creation Accounts
- The Origin of Sin and Its Consequences
- Causes of sin
- The consequences of sin
- God’s Plan of Salvation of Mankind
- Traditional African Concept of Evil
- Similarities and differences between traditional African view of evil and biblical concept of sin
- Ways of dealing with evil doers in traditional African communities
- Ways in which the church today disciplines errant members
- How the church helps to bring back members who have fallen from faith
- Faith and God’s Promises: Abraham
- Background to the call of Abraham
- The call of Abraham (Gen. 12:1-9)
- Lessons learnt about God from the call of Abraham
- Lessons Christians learn from the call of Abraham
- Definition of the term faith in God
- Importance of Faith in Christian life today
- Abraham’s acts of faith in God
- Lessons Christians learn from the incident Abraham was willing to sacrifice his son
- Ways in which Christians express their faith in God today
- God’s Promises to Abraham
- Relevance of the promises to Christians today
- Elements of covenant
- God’s covenant with Abraham
- Importance of the covenant
- Covenants in modern life
- Importance of covenants in modern life
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