WAEC Christian Religious Studies (CRS) 2017 Theory — Question 10

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i. Through the temptations, Jesus accepted suffering as a means of achieving God's purpose, with the redemption of mankind. ii. With his victory over Satan, Jesus assured his followers (Christians) that with the word of God, they too can overcome the devil. iii. The temptations signaled the preparation of Jesus for his ministry. It helped him to explore what his mission entailed. iv. The first temptation shows how Jesus was opposed to bribing people with material things or performing a miraculous feeding of the hungry and thereby gaining a large following. v. In the second temptation, Jesus rejected Satan's suggestion because it meant lack of faith in God. vi. The third temptation was to show Jesus as a political messiah. Jesus however rejected the common and corrupt messianic ideas and chose the path of a spiritual suffering to establish his heavenly kingdom.