Righteous among the Nations

Despite a quite universal acceptance of life as precious and worthy of preservation, the debate over human life has raged on for many years and in many situations. Specifically, biblical views on life and the preservation of this gift have brought tension and attacks on the holistic views of Christ followers. Many Christ followers would argue that life comes at conception and this disallows such actions as abortion or negative treatment of a woman 's body especially during the time of pregnancy.…

having a decent burial; all things that were seen as very important at this time. Abram’s part of the covenant is to have faith, be obedient, and offer sacrifice to God. This part of the covenant is easy for Abram to uphold since he is in fact, righteous (6). Abram would not want to lose God’s faith by breaking or not entering into the covenant, so he enters into the covenant to please God and incur the benefits of the LORD’s…

the founding of America firstly, 'seasoned slaves' were an important 'cash crop' for Virginia, after cotton, wheat and tobacco. Jefferson himself believed that slavery was going to stump the revolution and would be 'the greatest threat to the new nation'. Jefferson, being a modest man believed in and supported the idea of slaves being colonized as he believed that slavery corrupted both the slave and their masters but he also had conflicting views, believing that the slaves wouldn't be able to…

which gives the reader some thought of how the issues of organ transplantation are overseen the nation over. Since a large portion of the gathered data in this book originated from significant focuses in the United States, exchange of the act of organ transplantation in different countries framework is excluded, but rather the pertinence of this procedure all round the world is self-evident. At times among specific gatherings of our general public or in specific areas, the thought of particular…

One was when he was awarded the Righteous Among the Nations, which is an award bestowed by Jerusalem on Non-Jews who helped Jews at the risk of their own life. He is in the Yad Vashem Museum of the Holocaust in Jerusalem. Even being nominated for this award is an honor but to win is like being accepted…

Carnegie Hero Medal award recipients, only 9 percent of them were women, while 57 percent were women who were willing to “undergo pain and potential medical problems, in order to help another person,” in another aspect of the award (188). The Righteous Among the Nations category, showed that 61 percent of the recipients were also female, who “risked their lives during the Nazy holocaust to save Jews” (188). Like Alice Eagley and others who performed this study, I believe altruism exists…

The lords supper comes to mind, It was disagreement over this sacrament, and not baptism, that led to a breaking up among the Protestant Reformers. Though, baptism held the importance in Luther’s thought. Luther’s appreciation for baptism was tremendous and he meant what he said as affirmation by his practices. Luther further vary’s with the medieval Church in that baptism…

More Americans have heard of Oskar Schlinder, a businessman of Germany who employed more than 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust in efforts to keep the Nazi party from taking them to concentration camps, than they have heard about a Japanese diplomat named Chiune Sugihara, who broke his country’s laws in order to let more than 6000 Jews avoid territories in Japan that had been occupied by the Nazi party. On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Holocaust survivors and their descendants remember…

Throughout the New Testament, Jesus used parables directed at the often hypocritical religious leaders of the time and used it to bridge the transition from Judaism to Christianity. The Parable of the Tenants is a great example of Jesus chastising the Jewish lawgivers and the leadership of the religion. In doing so establishing the 'cornerstone ' of the new church. In Matthew 21, Jesus tells us the Parable of the Tenants while instructing these elders and leaders to listen carefully because…

Like what professor Magagna mentioned in the lecture, righteous and virtuous leadership composes of “virtuous balance, leadership, and function of institution and character”. (Magagna, Victor). Virtuous balance defines that the self interests of self and others need to be considered simultaneously in both short…