Essays on King James

A worldview refers to a conception or philosophy of life that is concerned with world meaning. It is any philosophy, ideology, theology, religion, or movement that seeks to offer an overreaching approach to the way humans understand God as well as the world’s relation to God. The Christian worldview encompasses the Christian perspective through which a person views and interprets the world (Weider, 2014). It can also be interpreted as a theory that guides the way a person lives in the world. It is a mental framework of attitudes and ideas about the world. A Christian worldview is ...

I have been given the task and privilege of directing the film Macbeth, (Macbeth) and the essay will examine many aspects of the play including the main characters, personalities, themes as well as the important incidents in the film and the historical background. I have chosen Lady Macbeth as the main character for discussion. The 2010 film, saw Macbeth as Stalin and the weird sisters or witches were portrayed as nurses and then cooks. It was filmed in an abbey which retained some of the original scenes of Shakespeare’s play. The 2010 film starred Patrick Steward as Macbeth ...

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The documentation of this journey in pastoral counseling of an event is outlined from “Crossroads”, which is based on a set case study of characters. The implementation of F.A.I.T.H. for Solution-based Short-term Pastoral Counseling (SBSPC), along with faith based measures of the counselor in pastoral mantle is the focus of the assessment. As a final report requirement, a counseling initiative for documentation in a pastoral role is required, and has been carried forth. An individual was chosen from the case studies, and all culminating work in this course of study has come to this report. The four F.A.I.T.H counseling ...

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Depression is a kind of mental disorder that can affect people’s feelings and everyday activities. It needs medical and psychological care, otherwise, it can cause such a fatal result as a suicide. Depression has its own symptoms and types that depend on different circumstances. Contemporary medical science has different methods of cure for depression that help people to overcome and even prevent it. Depression has been known from the ancient times and was considered as the demonic possession. Priests were the people responsible for it and they used exorcism as the method of the treatment. With the development ...

It has been said that if someone finds a job that he loves, he never actually has to work a day in his life since the job is so enjoyable and rewarding that it hardly feels like work. This idiom resonates with me because I believe that embarking upon my chosen vocation or calling for a tangible portion of my life will be challenging, rewarding, and enjoyable. As determined as I am to pursue the career of my choice, human resources manager, I understand both that I will need help achieving my objectives and that I will need to ...

Within the first weeks of the Christian Evangelism activity, I was able to meet and become acquainted with Sean. Sean is 17 years old. He is living with his foster family in our neighborhood. I am not sure about his ancestral lineage but from our conversations I learned that his grandparents were migrants who were not very successful in fulfilling their dreams in the foreign land. He was entrusted to his foster parents who are helping him to have a decent living and education. Unfortunately, his foster parents are already old and they would usually leave Sean by himself ...

IX. Business Ethics Ritenbaugh (2016) believes that the Bible is based on governing over man, self and God. It implies that bible defines the corporate organization as a defiance of the bible since it promotes the good of the self by generating profits while a single individual rules over others. The goal of business operations is considered by Ritenbaugh (2016) to be a sin since encourages other individuals or employees to achieve higher profits for the organization and its owners, which are the shareholders. However, Proverbs 14:23 where “in all labour there is profit” (King, 2016) the bible concurs ...

Introduction

A book written around A.D. 95, according to theological historians, the book Revelations of John is written by the same Apostle John who knew Jesus when He was a man on the earth, serving as one of His disciples and working fervently in His ministry. Understanding that the various apostles such as, Stephen and Paul, Bartholomew and Silas, were martyrs for the sake of the Church of Jesus Christ and the eminency of His ascendency, John lived to become an old man. John declared and proclaimed that he loved Jesus more than any of his brothers of the discipleship. ...

The motivational theory that best explains human behavior is the Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. According to Maslow, people behave the way they do depending on their needs that continuously develops their inner drive, which defines their behavior as they seek to satisfy their desires. In this regard, Maslow develops a hierarchy of individual needs that usually determines their actions and they progress from the most pressing to relatively urgent within the home and work context. In particular, the Maslow's theory provides a hierarchy consisting of five classes that are based on the most complex to the most ...

Christianity, Islam and, Judaism are often called the three Abrahamic faiths since all three religions "trace their history to the ancient figure of Abraham," according to ReligionFacts (2016). Even so, Christianity, with about 2 billion adherents, and Islam, with about 1.3 billion adherents, are by far bigger than Judaism, which only has about 14 million followers around the world. What can be seen when comparing Christianity and Islam is that, while there are similarities, there are glaring differences that actually overshadow whatever the two great religious traditions have in common.

Part 1: Similarity

Christians and Muslims both believe in the concept of ...

In the pursuit to explaining the creations, mankind has developed theories and beliefs to feed the curious minds. Transcendence is an important concept at understanding the theories and beliefs. For Christian theology creation is found in the Bible specifically in the Genesis. Transcendence in the Bible is the existence of a supreme being who has created all the living and non-living things from nothingness. The Creator is the lord of everything under the sun.

Transcendence in the Bible

In the Christian Bible, transcendence means that God is the most powerful who is above all the creations. God created all the creatures including a ...

The Sermon on the Mount is the most famous of Jesus’s sermons presented in the New Testament. It covered such moral issues as anger and murder, adultery and lust, oaths and revenge, and many other keen issues that have been actual within the thousands of years to the present time. ("What is the Sermon on the Mount?", 2016) In the verses 27-30 of chapter 5 of the gospel according to Matthew, Jesus speaks about adultery and lust. He reminds His listeners about the Old Testament rules concerning this issue and explains it wider applying to His teaching. “You ...

Answer the Questions

Worldview is a set of creeds and acceptations that reflects people’s attitude to the outwards things. Worldview refers to such questions as the origin of the world, human beings, and living creatures, sense of life, God’s existence, moral issues, and absolutes. (Ministry)

Describe the various worldviews that we discuss in the class.

There are three types of worldview. They are naturalism, non-naturalism, and supernaturalism. Naturalism states that there are only natural things that exist, and studied by natural science. Most of scientists and philosophers are naturalists. Naturalism in religion can be represented by some branches of Buddhism and Taoism.

Non-naturalism assumes that some moral values exist and they are much higher than the natural values.

Supernaturalism proclaims at least one intellect existence beyond ...

The accounting profession utilizes Christian ethics that are fundamental in worldwide integration and the use of biblical concepts in direct relation to the accounting profession. Integration of the biblical ethical standards guides is similar to some accounting principles that are widely used for the completion of accounting tasks. Chartered accountants can derive morality from a Christian point of view that is guided by biblical research. The aim of this paper is to relate the concepts of management accounting in the accounting field to Christian ethics and the worldwide view. The Bible has numerous ethical annotations and quotes that were ...

The accounting profession utilizes Christian ethics that are fundamental in worldwide integration and the use of biblical concepts in direct relation to the accounting profession. Integration of the biblical ethical standards guides is similar to some accounting principles that are widely used for the completion of accounting tasks. Chartered accountants can derive morality from a Christian point of view that is guided by biblical research. The aim of this paper is to relate the concepts of management accounting in the accounting field to Christian ethics and the worldwide view. The Bible has numerous ethical annotations and quotes that were ...

Matthew, the Evangelist, and apostle came from Capernaum. His father was Alphaeus and he was devoted to the Hebrew religion first. His birth name was Levi but he called himself Matthew. Matthew worked as a tax collector. Jesus asked him to give up his work and join Him because Levi knew human psychology well and had some good business habits that would be useful in his future missionary work. Those features of Matthew’s personality gave him an opportunity to make a way to the hearts of sinful and unfaithful people and convert them. In Acts 1:1-15 Matthew is ...

Technological advancements in the last century have resulted in a focal paradigm shift in terms of healthcare from the traditional service-oriented methodologies to the technological care-oriented models. Technology has played a critical role in ensuring that life has been prolonged with the intentions of having patients emerge with desirable outcomes and satisfaction. However, recent advancements on the care provision paradigm have shifted from primarily focusing on science to the incorporation of a healing environment with spirituality (Dossey et al., 2012). The major challenge however that continues to face many patients is whether healthcare settings are in a position to ...

that we can read about in all four Gospels. Despite His grief, Jesus returned from the deserted place and started healing ill people who came a long way on foot from the city in order to see Him and listened to Him. Jesus was very sad because John the Baptist was beheaded by Herod’s order. The disciples took the body, buried it and told Him the terrible news. (Matt. 14:10-14 New King James Version) When the evening came, the apostles asked Jesus to send the multitude away because people were hungry and exhausted and it would take them ...

Effect of Scriptural Violence on Aggression

Effect of Scriptural Violence on Aggression There is a growing concern about the foundations, or cornerstones of violence in our society, as we try to rationalize the loss of life that has occurred in multiple instances of extreme violence. One possible source under scrutiny is the bible. Psychologist Brad Bushman, of the University of Michigan, and his peers, recently performed a detailed study of the violence found in the bible, and other religious instructional texts, or “holy books” in order to determine whether or not these texts specifically sanction violence as a commandment of God. Further the study hoped ...

Rene Descartes is a French philosopher and mathematician of the XVI century, considered as a father of modern philosophy. He defined an opening point of existence and he is an author of well-known dictum “Cogito ergo sum” that means “I think; therefore I am.” He was influenced by Plato, Aristotle, Anselm and Thomas Aquinas. Descartes’s famous proofs of God’s existence are based on the system of personal experience and the “I” conception but in his speculations, it was not a person that have a conversation with God but the idea of the human “I” as a thinking ...