A. Choose TWO of the following questions and write a 300-word essay for each question.
1. Explain the power of myth using examples of a fable, poetry, and allegory.
2. Using examples from both religion and philosophy explain the relationship between God and human beings.
3. What did you learn about the concepts of “time”, “eternity”, “truth” and “goodness” through Plato’s allegory of The Cave? Explain your answer.
4. Explain this word equation: Telos = Zoe Life = Fully Human = Supreme/Perfect Happiness
5. Explain the differences between the first and second creation accounts in the first two chapters of the book of Genesis.
B. Choose TWO of the following questions and write a 300-word essay for each question.
1. What were the names of the two trees in the middle of the Garden of Eden? Which tree did God forbid Adam and Eve to eat from and why? What was the outcome of the story of Adam and Eve?
2. Explain the Cain and Able story.
3. How is the Noah story another creation account?
4. The 40 days after Jesus’ baptism are very important. Where does Jesus go? What does he do? Who does he talk to? What is their conversation about?
1. Choose TWO of the following questions and write a 300-word essay for each question.
1. What does Gospel mean and how is it connected to the Kingdom of God?
2. One very important moment in the life of Jesus is his baptism. Recount the events explaining their significance. What Old Testament story does this remind you of and why?
3. Explain Jesus’ teaching of the Beatitudes (Matthew 5).
4. What are the “rules for life” according to Moses and Jesus?
The relationship between God and human beings
In the Garden of Eden there were two trees standing in the midst of it. One was the Tree Of Life, the other was the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. After creating heaven and earth and while completing earth by the 7th day, we read about two mysterious trees in the middle of the Garden of Eden. “And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil” (Genesis 2:9). God`s first recorded conversation with Adam was about the forbidden fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. Adam and Eve were told they could eat anything they wanted – except the fruit from that tree.
proficient and compelling results. John Kotter clarifies that a few powers for change are more noteworthy monetary coordination, development and log jam, innovation, and fall of communist nations and their reorientation toward industrialist economies (Palmer, 2006).
Several change management theories depict the way toward building up an arranged way to deal with the progressions occurred in an association. The principal display is John Kotter’s 8 stages, which was distributed in 1995 in the Harvard Business Review. Initially, setting up the requirement for direness alludes to performing market examination by deciding the issues and openings. The second step, guaranteeing there is a ground-breaking change gathering to direct the change can be performed by making group structures to help drive the change and ensuring the groups have adequate capacity to manage the change. Thirdly, building up a dream can be done by giving concentration to change. At that point, the vision must be conveyed by utilizing different channels to continually impart this vision. The following stage is enabling the staff by evacuating authoritative approaches and structures that restrain the accomplishment of the vision. When this is done, the association must engage the staffs which helps bolster the requirement for change and give inspiration. Merging increases is the seventh step.
Nonetheless, while the Kotter’s 8 stages plot the administration of an authoritative change, the Bridges Transition Model proposes that change won’t be fruitful if progress doesn’t happen. For this situation, progress is characterized as the consummation of something, which is the main stage. The second stage is the nonpartisan zone, which is a confounding state between the old reality and the new. Amid this stage, individuals are not prepared or agreeable to welcome the fresh starts. Much significance must be given amid this stage, on the grounds that the change may be endangered if the association chooses to rashly get away. Although, if the unbiased zone is finished effectively, numerous open doors for innovative change can be exhibited. The last stage is acknowledgment of the fresh starts and distinguishing