Lesson Notes By Weeks and Term - Senior Secondary School 2

SUBJECT: CHRISTIAN RELIGIOUS KNOWLEDGE

CLASS:  SS2

DATE:

TERM: 1st TERM

REFERENCE

• Essential Christian Religious Knowledge for SS 1-3. By Edmond Ugochukwu.
• Comprehensive Christian Religious Knoledge for SS 1-3. By Martins I. Amaechi
• RSV Bible (Compulsory)

 
WEEK TWO

TOPIC: GOD THE CONTROLLER OF THE UNIVERSE. GENESIS 1:26-31

Man, no doubt is the Zenith (highest point) of God’s creation.  This is underscored by the care, ceremony and tally that accompanied his creation.  Again, God’s decision to contact the two other members of the Holy trinity that is God the son, and God the Holy spirit in the creation of man underlies man’s position in God’s scheme of things – “Let us make man” (Genesis 1:26).

Furthermore, the responsibility which God placed upon man shows his importance in the plan of God for the creation.  Every other creature was handed over to him for supervision.  Indeed, man is the crown of God’s creation.

As the chief controller, the existence, nourishment and sustenance of the entire creation depend upon God.  Man is incomparable with Him.  The highest responsibility of man is to assemble, organize, or supervise what God has already made.

EVALUATION

Describe God as the controller of the universe.

How Creation Demonstrates the Nature of God and His Sovereignty.

1. God is the supreme controller of the universe.
2. He is a perfect God.  All He made was “Good”.
3. The sequence of creation makes Him God of pattern and order.
4. His ability to create the world out of nothing makes him God of creativity, innovation    

              and originality.

5. His spoken word is real and potent.
6. He has created everything but nobody created him – He is the Alpha and Omega.

LESSONS TO LEARN

1. God created man in his own “image” and “likeness”.
2. Hence, man is different from all God’s creatures.
3. He is the earthly lord over all.
4. God provides man with all he needs to make life easy.
5. God has supreme power over all what he created including man; hence man depends   

             on God for his sustenance.

EVALUATION

1. Narrate the second creation account.
2. Explain the meaning of the following words

    (a) Adam    (b) Eve        (c) Woman    (d) Help meet

GENERAL EVALUATION/REVISION QUESTIONS

1. Discuss God as the controller of the universe.
2.         Describe the uniqueness of man among the creations of God.
3.         Write short notes on   (a) faith (b) Law
4.         How can a Christian rightly become a child of God?

READING ASSIGNMENT

Comprehensive Christian Religious Knoledge for SS 1-3. By Martins I. Amaechi, pgs 12-13

WEEKEND ASSIGNMENT

1. And God saw that it was “good”.  This recurring phrase in the first creation story demonstrates God’s_______  (a) Omnipotence   (b) Perfection   (c) Authority      (d) Creativity    
2. God’s ability to create heaven and earth out of a void and formless earth demonstrates Him as God of _________ (a) Confusion (b) Miracle (c) order (d) knowledge     
3. “Woman” according to Adam means ____ (a) Taken out of man     (b) Man’s companion    (c) Man’s opponent    (d) Because I am Lonely    (e) image of man
4. Which of these was not a river in the Garden of Eden?

    (a) Pihon    (b) Gihon    (c) Hiddekel      (d) Euphrates      (e) Tigris

5. Firmament according to Genesis 1:8 means ____________

    (a) sun, moon and stars     (b) water      (c) earth    (d) sea creatures      (e) heaven

THEORY

1. Narrate the second creation account of the universe.
2. Differentiate between the first and the second creation account.