Sentences with phrase «escaped bondage»

The fact, for example, that the idea of God in the Old Testament never entirely escaped the bondage of nationalism can easily be overstressed and misunderstood.

Imagine escaping bondage in southern Louisiana, Mississippi, or Alabama.

Not exact matches

...... «In reality a new bondage has been set up, a gilded bondage in some regards, for the moment man was brought under the law he was given the hope, in spite of all the evidence, that a means was given him whereby he could please God and escape his wrath.»

To be concretely finite is no predicament we should wish to escape, no bondage from which to yearn a liberation; it is simply not to be God.

It was here, in all probability, that the Hebrew people were in bondage to the Pharoahs until by the hand of God, under the leadership of Moses, they escaped across the Bitter Lakes (north of the main part of the Gulf of Suez and a long way north of the Red Sea) to begin their wilderness wanderings.

There can be no escape into otherworldly piety if one is to worship Yahweh, for this is the God who brought his people out of Egypt and for whom bondage and slavery are an abomination.

It is not enough to escape from bondage to a hated, alien foe -LRB-» a law in my members which wars against the law of my mind and brings me into captivity to the law of sin in my members»); something must be done about my own ghastly guilt.

The facts were that Israel had escaped out of bondage in the land of Egypt and become a free nation.

Twelve centuries after the children of Israel escaped from bondage in Egypt and embarked upon their stormy career as God's «holy nation,» there appeared among them an extraordinary person, namely Jesus of Nazareth.

1400 BC Nisan 14 Passover blood of the lamb to escape death, death of the first born Nisan 15 Unleavened Bread sin, the rise up out of bondage from slavery Nisan 16 Feast of First fruits... reserection first fruit of the spirit, resurrection power of salvation

To escape from this bondage, as our guest in Tokyo said, we need to «deconstruct» those linguistic structures to unmask the idols that still haunt them.

Modern life has so many forced required burdens both real and expected that being alone seems the only way to escape a kind of personal negative bondage.

Given the number in bondage — there were nearly 4,000,000 slaves counted by the U.S. Census in 1860 — only 100,000 escaping illustrates the extremely difficult process.

Sold into bondage, Iqbal Masih worked in inhumane conditions until escaping at the age of 10 and becoming an advocate for other child laborers.

After spending four years visiting a dozen countries where slavery flourishes, Skinner tells the story, in gripping narrative style, of individuals who live in slavery, those who have escaped from bondage, those who own or traffic in slaves, and the mixed political motives of those who seek to combat the crime.

The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman's ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage, and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share.

It is possible, but difficult to escape from the bondage of debt once you start to slide down that slippery slope.

It is absurdly ironic that members of the military can go into harm's way, fight in combat and yet return home only to struggle to escape the invisible bondage of student loan debt.

At Tacoma Christian Counseling, we have seen people escape seemingly impossible forms of bondage through faith in Christ with the help of our skilled and compassionate Christian counselors.