Sentences with phrase «slaves of new»

There was another flop in there, too: «Slaves of New York,» based on the [Tama Janowitz] book.

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As Stuart Banner explores in his book The Death Penalty: An American History, one of the earliest American - made capital statutes — as opposed to ones borrowed from England — was passed in New York in the aftermath of a 1712 slave revolt.

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation)- Some of the world's biggest retailers and food companies including Kellogg Co, Walmart Inc, and Nestle backed a new initiative on Wednesday to improve global supply chains amid rising consumer demand for slave - free goods and services.

LONDON, April 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation)- Some of the world's biggest retailers and food companies including Kellogg Co, Walmart Inc, and Nestle backed a new initiative on Wednesday to improve global supply chains amid rising consumer demand for slave - free goods and services.

Weymouth New Testament Slaves, be obedient to your earthly masters, with respect and eager anxiety to please and with simplicity of motive as if you were obeying Christ.

New American Standard Bible (© 1995) Slaves, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ;

Ephesians 6:5 New International Version (© 1984) Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ.

Suddenly, someone bursts into the room with new information: a group of white propertied men who have been dead for two centuries, knew nothing of our present situation, acted illegally under existing law and thought it was fine to own slaves might have disagreed with this course of action.

Using concepts from a long time ago, thought of by another society to set - up a relatively new country and doing so on the backs of slave labour... if that is called «establishing the system» then so be it.

Jesus and Saint Paul, the two towering figures of the New Testament were also open supporters of slavery and beating slaves.

Welcome to the new Civil War, only this time instead of slave - owners hiding their avarice behind claims of state's rights, it's religious extremists who are doing that.

And one of the first slave ships to ferry human beings as cargo to the so - called «New World» was named «Jesus.»

The God who is Judge in the New Testament, the God who appoints his Christ to carry out his judgment, is the same Yahweh who showed himself as God by hearing the cries of the Hebrew slaves in Egypt.

Jesus, invoking the words of Isaiah and sharing God's dreams for the world, announces the inauguration of a new Kingdom in which the Year of Jubilee — when debts are forgiven, slaves set free, land and its abundance shared — is celebrated perpetually.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

What makes the New Testament household codes powerful and countercultural is that they actually challenge those hierarchies by instructing all members of the household — even the masters, who in that culture held unilateral authority over their slaves, wives, and children — to imitate Jesus Christ in their relationships by modeling his self - sacrificing love.

Three other references in the New Testament (in Timothy, Jude and 2 Peter) appear to be limited to condemnation of male sex slaves in the first instance, and to showing examples (Sodom and Gomorrah) of God's destruction of unbelievers and heretics (in Jude and 2 Peter respectively).

For example, Moses Stuart of Andover Seminary in Massachusetts (who was sympathetic to the eventual emancipation of American slaves, but was against abolition), published a tract in which he pointed to Ephesians 6 and other biblical texts to argue that while slaves should be treated fairly by their owners, abolitionists just didn't have Scripture on their side and «must give up the New Testament authority, or abandon the fiery course which they are pursuing.»

In speaking thus, the New Testament is in agreement with the Gnostics, for they too speak of «this world», and of the princes, prince, or god of this world; and moreover they both regard man as the slave of the world and its powers.

I believe, with every ounce of my being, that patriarchy is a manifestation of a fallen, broken world and that a new creation in which «there is neither Jew nor Greek, male nor female, slave nor free, for all are one in Christ Jesus» began at the resurrection, an event first announced to the world by women.

From Ryan Lizza's enlightening profile in The New Yorker, I learned that Michele Bachmann's influences include spiritual and political mentors who preach the literal «inerrancy» of the Bible, who warn Christians to be suspicious of ideas that come from non-Christians, who believe homosexuality is an «abomination,» who portray the pre-Civil War South as a pretty nice place for slaves and who advocate «Dominionism,» the view that Christians and only Christians should preside over earthly institutions.

Paulâ $ ™ s most common self - description throughout his letters is: â $ œI am a slave who is sent by Jesus to non-Jews to communicate the good news that the Kingdom of God has come in Jesus.â $ English readers of the Bible find it easy to overlook this important aspect of Paulâ $ ™ s self - understanding, since the 190 different Greek terms used for slavery in the New Testament are sanitized to â $ œservant.â $ This is not a very appropriate translation, since in Paulâ $ ™ s day 1 / 3rd of the population of the Roman empire were masters who owned slaves, 1 / 3rd of the people were slaves, and 1 / 3rd were former slaves.

3From Lucille Schulberg Warner's From Slave to Abolitionist: The Life of William Wells Brown, New York: Dial Press.

The understanding of leadership in the New Testament that should frame our understanding of apostles is the foot - washing, low - status slave (John 13), and the â $ œrace to the bottomâ $ to become a â $ œslave of allâ $ (Matthew 20:20 ff; 1 Corinthians 9:19).

He assigned her a new slave name, «K», causing comparisons to the Story of O.

«I became convinced after my study of the subject in Abolitionists Abroad,» says Sanneh, «that 18th - century evangelical Christianity represented a social revolution of enormous import for the New World and for Africa by offering outcasts, slaves and captives a moral perspective on their oppression and exclusion....

This bond service or indentured servanthood is in stark contrast with chattel slavery of the New World (African Slave Trade).

But why couldn't we consciously create natural slaves who are content to be who they are — as most of the people are in the Brave New World (and the book by that name doesn't even draw upon what might well be possible through genetic engineering)?

This from a person who practices a religion that has millions of it's adherents everywhere calling for the death of anyone who draws their child touching, slave owning prophet, but is upset when new yorkers are mad about the building of a mosque (which as everyone knows, become hotbeds of islamic fundamentalist education) right next to the spot that your pathetic comrades killed thousands of innocent people.

True but there were several holocaust including the deaths of millions of Africans who were brought to the new world as slaves and died in passage from the brutal trip... not to mention the Spanish destroying south Americas indigenous population..

Tommy God has already forgiven you for your sin the moment you asked Jesus into your life and confessed him as Lord.From that point he paid for your sin in full past present future.It is not sin that stops us from being with the Lord so you are saved.The problem you are experiencing is the battle for your life in the here and now satan is out to destroy you and he knows our weaknesses.If you are honest there were already issues in your life that you struggled with and never got the victory over.So where do you go from here as i found myself in the same situation i was a christian but walking according to the flesh.God does nt change his mind he always loves us but because of our choices we distance ourselves from God.The issue is that we like sin thats our wicked hearts and to be fair we cant change our nature only Christ can do that our old nature must be crucified with Christ.The stumbling block is our pride we have to admit that we cant do it For me that was terribly difficult i was so independent thinking i could do anything but the truth was a made a real mess of things.I sense you are at a crossroads and are feeling desperate and confused.So as a brother in the Lord you need to confess your sin to God and tell him that you are weak -LCB- we all are -RCB- and that you cant do it in your strength -LCB- None of us can -RCB- but ask him to send the holy spirit to help you deal with the temptations and the sin that you struggle with and he will help you to change your life he will empower you as he did me.Rather than look at who you are look to Christ and walk in him and he will make you a new man and sin will not have dominion over you.Jesus came to set us free from bondage.Having once been a slave to sin i know what it is like to have been set free by the power of God and that is what Christ is offering you today.All it takes is a desire to change or repent and admit we cant do it and trust him to give you the strength to walk in him regards brentnz

In a statement released online, AQIM said that the attack was «a new message from the heroic champions of Islam, with their blood and their bodies, to the slaves of the cross, the occupiers of our homes, the looters of our wealth, and who would undermine our security.»

I believe it is our calling, as imitators of Christ, to reflect God's new vision for the world, initiated through Jesus Christ, in which there is no hierarchy or power struggle between slave and free, Jew and Greek, male and female, for all are one in the family of God.

... Britain intervened directly to stop the international slave trade... set new standards in healthcare... stood against a Nazi tyranny... forg [ed] the post-war international consensus which... ushered in a hitherto unknown period of peace and prosperity in Europe... [and] helped give birth to a peaceful resolution of the conflict [in Northern Ireland]... Your Government and people are the shapers of ideas that still have an impact far beyond the British Isles...

The Kingdom of God is a new order in which there is no Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male or female (Gal.

20 years behind us southern states and NEW YORK, sad and scary... nobody denies freedoms like the south, nobody... the top ten incarcerators on the planet are southern states and more blacks are in prison then were slaves before the civil war... even if marijuana reforms did pass the republiCANTS in charge would deny you all your freedoms, centuries of practice... no matter though, we never planned on getting your backwards brethren from day one, half the country already but not one southern state, lol... not 1....

One of the most beautiful passages in the New Testament is that in which Paul sends Onesimus back to Philemon — not emancipated in the legal sense, but «no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother,... both in the flesh and in the Lord» (v. 16).

The Potter's House pastor and writer T.D. Jakes has created a powerful new video that he's posted on Instagram showcasing the unimaginable horror of the modern - day slave trade.

And just as we no longer countenance slavery, which both Old and New Testaments regarded as normal, so we also no longer countenance the use of female slaves, concubines and captives as sexual toys or breeding machines by their male owners, which Leviticus 19:20 f., II Samuel 5:13 and Numbers 31:17 - 20 permitted — and as many American slave owners did slightly over 100 years ago.

In the context of a discussion about the new life in Christ, general teaching about sexual purity, wise use of time, and the pleasure of praising God in song preceded a more specific discussion of husband - wife, parent - child, and master - slave relationships.

Let's not forget Maryland (Catholics), Pennsylvania (Quakers), and I can't help but add Georgia — a southern state and the only one at the time of its founding to prohibit slavery (Oglethorpe who had made his fortune in the slave trade felt bad about how he had made his money and paid off the debts of folks imprisoned for their debts and procured them land and gave them a new chance), New York (originally a Dutch colony procured after the Dutch lost the Dutch - Anglo War, the Carolinas, and so new chance), New York (originally a Dutch colony procured after the Dutch lost the Dutch - Anglo War, the Carolinas, and so New York (originally a Dutch colony procured after the Dutch lost the Dutch - Anglo War, the Carolinas, and so on.

His daughter, Scout, now in her mid-twenties and visiting home from her erstwhile and vaguely described life in New York, finds Atticus at a meeting where a professional scaremonger warns the sympathetic audience that their concern is «not the question of whether snot - nosed niggers will go to school with your children or ride in the front of the bus... it's whether... we will be slaves of the Communists» and «nigger lawyers.»

Even the recent history of pastoral care by E. Brooks Holifield sees women, slaves and «others» primarily as the objects of care, rarely as caregivers and never as the source of new ideas.

We rightly use «servant» instead of slave for the New Testament doulos because Jesus freely gives his life.

The conference finally adopted several arguably peripheral constitutional amendments such as forbidding acquisition of new U.S. territory without approval by a majority of both slave - state and free - state senators, guaranteeing federal compensation for fugitive slaves when failure to return them was due to anti-slavery violence or intimidation, and restoring and perpetuating the Missouri Compromise line that once satisfied both regions but had been struck down by the Dred Scott decision.

The Israelites had been enslaved for more than two centuries; their backs broken by whips and their souls crushed under the weight of Pharaoh's mercilessness; their identity as the children of Abraham — God's chosen people — shadowed by their new title as slaves.

The reaction is hardly a new one: abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier wrote to Sarah and Angelina Grimke, early American abolitionists and advocates of women's rights, about their concern for women: «Is it not forgetting the great and dreadful wrongs of the slave in a selfish crusade against some paltry grievance of [your] own?»

Even now we have not achieved full equality between the white European immigrants, the native Americans, the children of black slaves from Africa and the newer immigrants from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Some years before Revelation was written, Paul was sending letters to churches in Asia Minor and Greece to build up the Christ - rooted societies with an egalitarian credo, recognizing believers whether they were Greek or Jew, male or female, slave or free, These assemblies stood «in contrast to the hierarchical social relations» in the empire, Horsley wrote in Paul and Empire, a book deemed significant by Wright, a New Testament scholar and the Anglican bishop of Durham.