Religious Education Topic Final Assessment

10F– Sinfulness and Reconciliation

Name:______Class:______

This assessment has three sections with Achieved, Merit and Excellence questions. Try to complete each section. The required number of marks to pass is indicated at the start of each section. The marks for each question are indicated in brackets after the question.

Section One: Achieved Questions (6 Marks required to pass this section)

  1. List three possible sins

(Three Marks)

  1. Name the sacrament most linked with Sin and Forgiveness

(Two Marks)

  1. Complete the following extract by selecting the correct words from the box below to go in the correct gaps. (Note there are more words than there are gaps)

AbelScapegoatChristiansRepentanceAoraki

SinnersSacrificesAltarSinsSeal

SinaiLambBathshebaHellfireForgiveness

In the times of the Old Testament the Jewish people used to make ______to pay for their sinfulness. God gave the Jewish people the law of the Ten Commandments on Mount______. As ______we still try to keep these commandments just as the Jews did.

As well as making burnt offerings upon the ______, once a year the Jewish people symbolically breathed their ______upon a sheep or goat before setting it free in the desert. This tradition is where the term ______comes from.

One of the greatest ______of all time was King David. He had an affair with ______and had her husband sent away to battle to be killed. David’s desire for ______is noted in several of the Psalms he wrote.

Today Jesus is commonly referred to as the ______of God because he died to pay for our sins.

(Five Marks)

Section Two: Merit Questions (7 Marks are required to pass this section)

  1. Read the following story and explain what it says about God’s attitude towards sinners

The Story of the Lost Son

Luke Chapter 15

11Then he said, "There was once a man who had two sons. 12The younger said to his father, "Father, I want right now what's coming to me.'

"So the father divided the property between them. 13It wasn't long before the younger son packed his bags and left for a distant country. There, undisciplined and dissipated, he wasted everything he had. 14After he had gone through all his money, there was a bad famine all through that country and he began to hurt. 15He signed on with a citizen there who assigned him to his fields to slop the pigs. 16He was so hungry he would have eaten the corncobs in the pig slop, but no one would give him any.

17"That brought him to his senses. He said, "All those farmhands working for my father sit down to three meals a day, and here I am starving to death. 18I'm going back to my father. I'll say to him,

Father, I've sinned against God, I've sinned before you; 19I don't deserve to be called your son. Take me on as a hired hand.' 20He got right up and went home to his father.

"When he was still a long way off, his father saw him. His heart pounding, he ran out, embraced him, and kissed him. 21The son started his speech: "

Father, I've sinned against God, I've sinned before you; I don't deserve to be called your son ever again.'

22"But the father wasn't listening. He was calling to the servants, "Quick. Bring a clean set of clothes and dress him. Put the family ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. 23Then get a grain-fed heifer and roast it. We're going to feast! We're going to have a wonderful time! 24My son is here--given up for dead and now alive! Given up for lost and now found!' And they began to have a wonderful time.

25"All this time his older son was out in the field. When the day's work was done he came in. As he approached the house, he heard the music and dancing. 26Calling over one of the houseboys, he asked what was going on. 27He told him, "Your brother came home. Your father has ordered a feast--barbecued beef!-because he has him home safe and sound.'

28"The older brother stalked off in an angry sulk and refused to join in. His father came out and tried to talk to him, but he wouldn't listen. 29The son said, "Look how many years I've stayed here serving you, never giving you one moment of grief, but have you ever thrown a party for me and my friends? 30Then this son of yours who has thrown away your money on whores shows up and you go all out with a feast!'

31"His father said, "Son, you don't understand. You're with me all the time, and everything that is mine is yours-- 32but this is a wonderful time, and we had to celebrate. This brother of yours was dead, and he's alive! He was lost, and he's found!'"

(Five Marks)

  1. Describe in your own words one of the accounts where Jesus healed someone (either spiritually or physically.

(Three Marks)

  1. What is a sin of Omission?

(Two Marks)

Section Three: Excellence Questions (8 Marks are required to pass this section)

  1. Define Sin:

(Five Marks)

  1. Explain the meaning of this diagram:

GOD SIN

(Seven Marks)

Extra Paper:

Section One (6/10 required) / Section Two (7/10 required) / Section Three (8/12 required)
Final Grade:

Marking Schedule

Section One: Achieved Questions (6 Marks required to pass this section)

  1. List three possible sins(One Mark Each – anything sensible accepted)
  2. Name the sacrament most linked with Sin and Forgiveness – Reconciliation or Confession

(Two Marks)

  1. In the times of the Old Testament the Jewish people used to make Sacrifices pay for their sinfulness. God gave the Jewish people the law of the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai. As Christians we still try to keep these commandments just as the Jews did.

As well as making burnt offerings upon the Altar, once a year the Jewish people symbolically breathed their Sins upon a sheep or goat before setting it free in the desert. This tradition is where the term Scapegoat comes from.

One of the greatest Sinners of all time was King David. He had an affair with Bathsheba and had her husband sent away to battle to be killed. David’s desire for Forgiveness is noted in several of the Psalms he wrote.

Today Jesus is commonly referred to as the Lamb of God because he died to pay for our sins. (Half a Mark each)

Section Two: Merit Questions (7 Marks are required to pass this section)

  1. Read the following story and explain what it says about God’s attitude towards sinners

Emphasise in answer should be on God being ready to forgive anyone at all times for full marks. (Five Marks)

  1. Describe in your own words one of the accounts where Jesus healed someone (either spiritually or physically.

A Clear specific biblical event must be described for full marks. One mark for other common characteristics, e.g. laying of hands, leprosy, calling out of spirits, forgiveness of sins etc.

(Three Marks)

  1. What is a sin of Omission? – Is either correct of not(Two Marks)

Section Three: Excellence Questions (8 Marks are required to pass this section)

  1. Define Sin: - For full marks must state that Sin is something that separates you from God – or in strict terms destroys your Communion with God.

(Five Marks)

  1. Explain the meaning of this diagram:

GOD SIN

For full marks must talk about the Cross being the thing that brings sinners to God – and that humans are sinners and can’t be with God as sinners etc….