Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies
December 1988 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1988
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1988Give the definition of corporal punishment.
- 2nd December 1988Explain what religious discrimination means, giving a brief example.
- 3rd December 1988State one Bible reference commonly used to support the equality of all races.
- 4th December 1988Give the technical term for a theory of atonement that sees Christ's obedience as reversing or 'undoing' Adam's disobedience.
- 5th December 1988According to John 16:7, why does Jesus say it is 'for your good' that he is going away?
- 6th December 1988A 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.
- 7th December 1988Name the day that marks the start of Lent, on which some Christians receive an ash mark on their forehead.
- 8th December 1988According to 1 Corinthians 10:16, what does drinking the cup during Communion involve, in Paul's words?
- 9th December 1988According to Qur'an 2:37, how does Adam respond after his mistake, and how does Allah respond in turn?
- 10th December 1988Which two things are humans and jinn believed to have that angels do not?
- 11th December 1988Name the first four caliphs recognised by Sunni Muslims, in order.
- 12th December 1988Which two prayers do many Shia Muslims combine, alongside Maghrib and Isha?
- 13th December 1988Why does traditional Islamic teaching insist that armed jihad can only be declared by a legitimate authority, not by individuals?
- 14th December 1988Name the legal process a married couple must complete in England if they wish to end their marriage.
- 15th December 1988State one non-religious argument for treating men and women equally at work, based on the idea of shared human rights.
- 16th December 1988Give the Latin term for the Protestant doctrine that salvation is by faith alone.
- 17th December 1988Give one non-religious (for example, Humanist) reason for believing death is the end of a person's existence.
- 18th December 1988In which surah of the Qur'an does the verse most often quoted in these debates about the value of a single life appear?
- 19th December 1988In which year, and against whom, did Russell debate the cosmological argument on BBC radio?
- 20th December 1988Give one factor, other than education, that might cause someone's belief to change after a religious upbringing.
- 21st December 1988Give one practical need a refugee is likely to have immediately after arriving in a host country.
- 22nd December 1988Give the primary, most commonly taught meaning of the word jihad for most Muslims, most of the time.
- 23rd December 1988Suggest one reason a sociologist would treat addiction as a 'risk factor' for crime rather than a 'cause' of crime.
- 24th December 1988Complete the quotation: 'I was in prison and ______' (Matthew 25:36).
- 25th December 1988In what year was the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted?
- 26th December 1988State what Zakah is calculated as a percentage of.
- 27th December 1988Give one word for the Christian belief that God is present and active within creation and human life, as opposed to being distant and uninvolved.
- 28th December 1988According to James 2:26, what is faith without deeds compared to?
- 29th December 1988According 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?
- 30th December 1988State the name given in some churches to a service that welcomes a baby without using water, instead of infant baptism.
- 31st December 1988According to 1 Corinthians 12:12, what does Paul compare the Church to?