Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies
January 1987 5-a-day
Every sheet in January 1987
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1987State one Bible reference commonly used to support the equality of all races.
- 2nd January 1987Give the technical term for a theory of atonement that sees Christ's obedience as reversing or 'undoing' Adam's disobedience.
- 3rd January 1987According to John 16:7, why does Jesus say it is 'for your good' that he is going away?
- 4th January 1987A church's weekly Sunday attendance falls from 120 to 90 over five years, while its midweek 'Messy Church' grows to attract 40 new families. Calculate the percentage fall in Sunday attendance.
- 5th January 1987Name the day that marks the start of Lent, on which some Christians receive an ash mark on their forehead.
- 6th January 1987According to 1 Corinthians 10:16, what does drinking the cup during Communion involve, in Paul's words?
- 7th January 1987According to Qur'an 2:37, how does Adam respond after his mistake, and how does Allah respond in turn?
- 8th January 1987Which two things are humans and jinn believed to have that angels do not?
- 9th January 1987Name the first four caliphs recognised by Sunni Muslims, in order.
- 10th January 1987Which two prayers do many Shia Muslims combine, alongside Maghrib and Isha?
- 11th January 1987Why does traditional Islamic teaching insist that armed jihad can only be declared by a legitimate authority, not by individuals?
- 12th January 1987Name the legal process a married couple must complete in England if they wish to end their marriage.
- 13th January 1987State one non-religious argument for treating men and women equally at work, based on the idea of shared human rights.
- 14th January 1987Give the Latin term for the Protestant doctrine that salvation is by faith alone.
- 15th January 1987Give one non-religious (for example, Humanist) reason for believing death is the end of a person's existence.
- 16th January 1987In which surah of the Qur'an does the verse most often quoted in these debates about the value of a single life appear?
- 17th January 1987In which year, and against whom, did Russell debate the cosmological argument on BBC radio?
- 18th January 1987Give one factor, other than education, that might cause someone's belief to change after a religious upbringing.
- 19th January 1987Give one practical need a refugee is likely to have immediately after arriving in a host country.
- 20th January 1987Give the primary, most commonly taught meaning of the word jihad for most Muslims, most of the time.
- 21st January 1987Suggest one reason a sociologist would treat addiction as a 'risk factor' for crime rather than a 'cause' of crime.
- 22nd January 1987Complete the quotation: 'I was in prison and ______' (Matthew 25:36).
- 23rd January 1987In what year was the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted?
- 24th January 1987State what Zakah is calculated as a percentage of.
- 25th January 1987Give one word for the Christian belief that God is present and active within creation and human life, as opposed to being distant and uninvolved.
- 26th January 1987According to James 2:26, what is faith without deeds compared to?
- 27th January 1987According to Hebrews 4:15, what does the belief that Jesus is 'tempted in every way, just as we are' mean for how Christians view God's understanding of suffering?
- 28th January 1987State the name given in some churches to a service that welcomes a baby without using water, instead of infant baptism.
- 29th January 1987According to 1 Corinthians 12:12, what does Paul compare the Church to?
- 30th January 1987State whether 'widespread dishonesty in business' is described as a minor or a major sign of the Last Day.
- 31st January 1987Give one term used for the mosque in Jerusalem associated with the Isra.