Sentences with phrase «as a free man in»

The film is based on Solomon Northup's memoir about his life in slavery after being abducted as a free man in New York.

And indeed, the original Underground Railroad drew its name from an analogy with a powerful new method of travel — built by slaves (or imported cheap labor treated as free men in name only).

Not exact matches

This summer, Gilbert and James met in person to hash out their differences; Gilbert apologized for the letter, the two men embraced, and days later James signed a two - year agreement to return to the Cavaliers as a free agent.

In latin, Carolus is a strong form of the pronoun «he» and translates in many related languages as a «free or strong» maIn latin, Carolus is a strong form of the pronoun «he» and translates in many related languages as a «free or strong» main many related languages as a «free or strong» man.

In other words, women in Louisiana earn 70 cents for every dollar men in Louisiana make, or they spend 10.5 hours of each 35 - hour work week «working for free,» as Expert Market's research team puts iIn other words, women in Louisiana earn 70 cents for every dollar men in Louisiana make, or they spend 10.5 hours of each 35 - hour work week «working for free,» as Expert Market's research team puts iin Louisiana earn 70 cents for every dollar men in Louisiana make, or they spend 10.5 hours of each 35 - hour work week «working for free,» as Expert Market's research team puts iin Louisiana make, or they spend 10.5 hours of each 35 - hour work week «working for free,» as Expert Market's research team puts it.

«Thousands of years of men innovating society and a single generation where women start to do better (in school and so forth) and rather than looking at the big picture, we're free to generalize, so long as those generalizations are harmful only to men.»

In the back, a handful of of people from small businesses also located downtown served free food and drink: A man with tattoo sleeves watched as two women sampled tea from a startup called Tealet, a nationally - ranked barista (yes, there are barista rankings), poured specialty coffee.

Jason; so sorry you were so misled but the Bible refers to the earth as a circle (Isa.40: 22) some 700 years before Jesus ever came here and many other descriptions of what goes on here are so accurate as to make one wonder how man would know and if you are sincerely interested in finding what the bible really teaches (and having those misconceptions corrected) just ask and I will be glad to help or go to jw.org for all the free help you will ever need.

In fact, even the concept of a religious foundation for Statehood guarantees theocracy, and as such should revolt all truly free men, ESPECIALLY Americans.

«That Sudan continues to prosecute these men, and without even allowing them free access to their legal team, makes a mockery of the judicial process and is a clear violation of fair trial principles, as articulated in Article 7 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (ACHPR) and Article 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), to which Sudan is a party.

«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»

When asked what it was like to be in the middle of a diplomatic struggle between two countries he said,» (Chen) as a blind man was willing to risk his own life and his family paid such a heavy price, what about ours who are living in the free world?

Observer, you can call God «Zeus», if you regard Him as our eternal infinite Holy Creator and Judge, who created all and will continue to create, whose purity requires purity to dwell with Him, whose love within overflowed to create man in His image with free will, who permitted rebellion for the purpose of destroying evil, and who surrendered His Son to allow us to use our free will to glorify Him and enjoy Him forever.

They have simply lost interest in metaphysical claims about Jesus, viewing him as a «man for others» or a «free man» in relation to whom we can become free.

One after another the state constitutions had declared that, as North Carolina's put it, «all men have a natural and unalienable right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences» (V: 71) The state constitutions indicated that the right of «free exercise» was meant to be absolute, at least to the point of not «disturb [ing] the public peace or obstruct [ing] others in their religious worship» (Massachusetts, 1780, V: 77) Equally straightforward was the opposition to «an establishment of religion.»

As a guest, you are introduced by the Dirt Bag with whom you came, and on your third introduction, you are recognized as a Dirt Bag (which by the way entitles you to a free, actually quite nice Dirt Bag hat from the rather large selection, and nearly every man in the place is proudly wearing oneAs a guest, you are introduced by the Dirt Bag with whom you came, and on your third introduction, you are recognized as a Dirt Bag (which by the way entitles you to a free, actually quite nice Dirt Bag hat from the rather large selection, and nearly every man in the place is proudly wearing oneas a Dirt Bag (which by the way entitles you to a free, actually quite nice Dirt Bag hat from the rather large selection, and nearly every man in the place is proudly wearing one.)

The knowledge of the «truth» as it is revealed in Jesus makes men free (8:32), free from the bondage of sin (8:34).

But always within limits; there is no complete freedom for anybody, It is important to affirm man's freedom of will, or as it was put in the older diction, to say that man «is a free moral agent,» for otherwise all idea of morality and of sin collapses.

Is it right for a man to be as care - free as a bird, and even to surpass these creatures in unconcern, since they fly hither and thither in search of food?

Augustine disputed with Pelagius about free will, and generally Pelagianism has been viewed by the main stream of Christian thought as a heresy in which man's dependence upon grace for salvation is denied.

If man today is asking, can God's existence be reconciled with man's deepened experience of himself as free creator of the world, the Whitheadian approach with its notion of God's persuasive personal action in the world, with its discovery of God's presence yet absence in man's creative activity, with its stress on the mutual immanence of God and the world, offers pathways for further development.

Perhaps man wasn't ready for the redeemer in the beginning, shortly after the beginning man spread across the earth and began to worth ship idols and false gods and perhaps they didn't want a savior and as we know God gave man free will.

If by the power of God's grace we are in a position to accept ourselves as pilgrims, as mortal men seeking their way with difficulty through the darkness, as failing again and again and yet bound in duty to an earthly task; if the Church effects that acceptance by celebrating the death of the Lord, and makes us men of prayer who are really conscious of the future judgment of God, if the Church sends its children strengthened with God's grace out into their own maturity which burdens them but sets them free, then the Church by its official ministry has done what it alone can and must do.

The Church was established in part to free us from these sorts of false constructs of man, as Blessed John Paul II proclaims in his encyclical Veritatis Splendor:

The Law Jesus was referring to (Mosaic Law, which we are «free» from) is not the same as the laws of man, government and the governing authorities (which Anarchists traditionally resist), and Paul and Peter wrote about in Romans 13, and 1 Peter 2:13 - 21.

As soon as we all stop believing in invisible men up in the sky that tell us to worship only them, and convert or kill all other non-believers of this one particular sky wizard, then we can finally be freAs soon as we all stop believing in invisible men up in the sky that tell us to worship only them, and convert or kill all other non-believers of this one particular sky wizard, then we can finally be freas we all stop believing in invisible men up in the sky that tell us to worship only them, and convert or kill all other non-believers of this one particular sky wizard, then we can finally be free.

Not long after his summer blockbuster Free State of Jones came out, Matthew McConaughey explained to The Daily Beast that his character «had a moral code rooted in the Bible and the Declaration of Independence: Love thy neighbor as thyself, and all men are created equal.»

Because God is communicating to mankind through the Scriptures in the Bible in a style that reeks with an obvious understood implication that the hearer / reader, mankind, has the inherent ability to accept / believe or reject His call / drawing, commands, instructions, promises and gifts (some folk briefly refer to it as man's free will), I let the concept of mankind having this inherent ability be the precedence.

It is impossible, for example, to disregard one of India's greatest discoveries: that of consciousness as witness, of consciousness freed from its psychophysiological structures and their temporal conditioning, the consciousness of the «liberated» man, of him, that is, who has succeeded in emancipating himself from temporality and thereafter knows the true, inexpressible freedom».

A genuinely reciprocal relationship demands that man regard himself not as an object of God's thought but as a really free person — a partner in dialogue.

Not a few men today experience their dilemma as that of creatures who were born to be free but are everywhere in chains.

This vocational emphasis affects not only the manifestly practical fields of study, such as the technical and professional disciplines, but even the «pure» liberal arts and sciences, which have commonly been represented as the studies appropriate for the nurture of the free man — studies whose justification and worth lie solely in themselves and not in any extrinsic purposes.

In our generation there is danger and hope — danger that these noncognitive accouterments will lose their aesthetic harmony and hypnotic power when integrated with the basic prehensions of science, and be reverted into impotent and empty symbols, jarring, ugly, and without force in final satisfactions: hope that the power of Jesus as lure will reassert itself in an aesthetic context devoid of supernaturalism, a context such that (the language now picks up echoes of van Buren) the vision of Jesus, the free man, free from authority, free from fear, «free to give himself to others, whoever they were «1 — such that this vision in its earthly, human purity will lure our aims to a harmonious concrescence, integrating scientific insight and moral vision and producing a modern, intensely fulfilling human satisfactioIn our generation there is danger and hope — danger that these noncognitive accouterments will lose their aesthetic harmony and hypnotic power when integrated with the basic prehensions of science, and be reverted into impotent and empty symbols, jarring, ugly, and without force in final satisfactions: hope that the power of Jesus as lure will reassert itself in an aesthetic context devoid of supernaturalism, a context such that (the language now picks up echoes of van Buren) the vision of Jesus, the free man, free from authority, free from fear, «free to give himself to others, whoever they were «1 — such that this vision in its earthly, human purity will lure our aims to a harmonious concrescence, integrating scientific insight and moral vision and producing a modern, intensely fulfilling human satisfactioin final satisfactions: hope that the power of Jesus as lure will reassert itself in an aesthetic context devoid of supernaturalism, a context such that (the language now picks up echoes of van Buren) the vision of Jesus, the free man, free from authority, free from fear, «free to give himself to others, whoever they were «1 — such that this vision in its earthly, human purity will lure our aims to a harmonious concrescence, integrating scientific insight and moral vision and producing a modern, intensely fulfilling human satisfactioin an aesthetic context devoid of supernaturalism, a context such that (the language now picks up echoes of van Buren) the vision of Jesus, the free man, free from authority, free from fear, «free to give himself to others, whoever they were «1 — such that this vision in its earthly, human purity will lure our aims to a harmonious concrescence, integrating scientific insight and moral vision and producing a modern, intensely fulfilling human satisfactioin its earthly, human purity will lure our aims to a harmonious concrescence, integrating scientific insight and moral vision and producing a modern, intensely fulfilling human satisfaction.

That is nonesence, all religions with book are free to practice in Iran except Bahi which is precived as man made branch of Islam

He calls attention to (1) the degeneration in syncretism of the old Yahweh faith prior to the appearance of the eighth - century prophets; (2) a kind of «emancipation» from Yahweh in increasing dependence upon the maturing structure of the political state; and (3) the dissolution of the old tribal social order with the shift of economic power to the cities, the increasing inability of the farmer, because of the burdens of heavy taxation, to maintain himself as a free man, and the growing concentration of land in the hands of a few wealthy urbanites (cf. Isa.

Those, on the other hand, who say that they are in despair are generally such as have a nature so much more profound that they must become conscious of themselves as spirit, or such as by the hard vicissitudes of life and its dreadful decisions have been helped to become conscious of themselves as spirit — either one or the other, for rare is the man who truly is free from despair.

No GOD didn't wite the bible, man did humans just like you, and as we all know humans make mistakes, or words get mistranslated, the point being is have faith in GOD but he gave you free will to use your brain too.

Spelled out in a lengthy lead editorial entitled «Evangelicals in the Social Struggle,» as well as in books such as Aspects of Christian Social Ethics, Henry's understanding of Christian social responsibility stressed (a) society's need for the spiritual regeneration of all men and women, (b) an interim social program of humanitarian care, ethical proclamation, and personal, structural application, and (c) a theory of limited government centering on certain «freedom rights,» e. g., the rights to public property, free speech, and so on.18 Though the shape of this social ethic thus closely parallels that of the present editorial position of Moody Monthly, it must be distinguished from its counterpart by the time period involved (it pushed others like Moody Monthly into a more active involvement in the social arena), by the intensity of its commitment to social responsibility, by the sophistication of its insight into political theory and practice, and by its willingness to offer structural critique on the American political system.

This goal of liberal learning as a privilege of free men is fulfilled in America and in other advanced industrial societies in the sense that problems of subsistence

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 God's eyes you are not married to this man as he already has a wife, so as he was not a widower he was not free to marry you.

Theologian Henri de Lubac dealt with this issue at length in his masterful book, The Drama of Atheist Humanism: «If man takes himself as a god, he can, for a time, cherish the illusion that he has raised and freed himself.

Because God is communicating to mankind through the Scriptures in the Bible in a style that reeks with an obvious understood implication that the hearer / reader, mankind, has the inherent ability to accept / believe or reject His call / drawing, commands, instructions, promises and gifts (some folk briefly refer to it as man's inherent - free - will capacity), I let the concept of mankind having this inherent ability be the precedence; and I interpret difficult passages that can possibly be interpreted to appear contradictory to that precedence (of mankind having inherent - free - will) in light of mankind having inherent - free - will capacity.

The paradox of Christian living is that the more one submits in obedience to Christ as Lord, the more one becomes a free man.

Also I have adhered to the «In Christ Life» teachings of Warren Litzman a very old but truly gifted man of God and you can download his magazines as well online for free.

Then, freed from its downward tendency to the finite, it can effect the dynamism towards the God of eternal life who, in his innermost reality as communicable and as communicated, is the goal and end of man's supernatural vocation.

That man can see, analyze the determinists that press on him attest8 to the fact that be can envisage them simply as objects confronting him and, by seeing them in this way, act as a free man.

The spiritual struggle of Western man can be interpreted as his search for a way of life which will make possible free personal selfhood in the midst of all the forces, dogmatic, ecclesiastical, economic, social, and technical, which depersonalize him.

Freedom is never a mere choice between individual objects, but it is the self - realization of man who makes a choice, and only within this freedom in which man is capable of realizing himself is he also free as regards the material of his self - realization.

But if a man believes in the omnipotent, omniscient and loving God his life will be destiny in an even deeper sense: for it is wholly borne by the power of God without which nothing, not even man's own free act, can exist; his life as a whole and in all its details is always lived before the omniscient God of love.