Sentences with phrase «out of slavery by»

With Jesus» exodus he was rescuing us, God's people, out of slavery by releasing us from all those things that have an unholy hold on us — work or money or death — and by placing his own blood on the doorposts of our lives.

Not exact matches

The advantages of slavery by debt over «chattel» slavery — ownership of humans as a property right — were set out in an infamous document called the Hazard Circular, reportedly circulated by British banking interests among their American banking counterparts during the American Civil War.

Why is the holocaust remembred but slavery out of Egypt unspoken of by Jewish powers that be?

I've seen a lot of silliness on the belief blog, but on the Joel Osteen topic, I was gobsmacked by the number of apologists for Biblical slavery coming out of the woodwork.

They pointed out that slavery was practiced by the people of Israel and regulated by God, and that Jesus never said a word against slaveholding.

When the natives, weakened by sickness, overwork, and trauma, died en masse, the illusion of reciprocity devolved into out - and - out slavery.

It reminds us that our most pressing constitutional questions (on slavery and secession) were settled out of court; that it took more than a wiser judge to reverse our most villainous chief justice (Roger Taney); and that our Constitution's most consequential interpreter wasn't a robed philosopher - king but a self - taught lawyer from Kentucky by way of Illinois.

I think God speaks clearly in these times because of his silence it means he has had enough of our ways we havent listened we have gone our own way we havent acted on what his prophets have spoken so he distances himself until such time that we will take him seriously.Thats how it was in the old testament he allowed his people to go into captivity or bondage when they refused to obey his word.We see this pattern repeated over and over for example In Egypt when they were in slavery it wasnt until the people acknowledged there sin and cried out to God to save them and he did by sending a savior moses.Because we have Christ we have grace he wont spurn us like he used to because Christ took away our reproach and he is free to love us despite our sinfulness.brentnz

Considering the chaos, destruction, death wars, faster spread of disease, murders, slavery, attempted genocide... all justified by belief in the bible... 40,000 different versions of christianity, with each person interpretting it differently... clearly chaos (a tool of the devil) then you see all of the things that are flat out wrong... it becomes clear

Slaves were by common practice disciplined or chastised by the rod which came out of their own 430 year slavery under Egypt.

Horrific reports are coming out of Mosul, where ISIS still has a stronghold: According to a Kurdish Democratic Party spokesperson, at least 250 girls were executed by the radical Islamic militants after they resisted sex slavery and refused to be a part of forced marriages with ISIS terrorists.

European culture was long distinguished by the thoroughness with which it coerced labor out of its population — slavery and industrialization, phenomena equally indifferent to such inconveniences as considerations of family, were natural extensions of feudalism, only more ambitious and ingenious in their exactions.

I am absolutely staggered by all these apologists for biblical slavery crawling out of the woodwork.

This growing sensitiveness of conscience about Hebrew slavery was doubtless responsible for the fact that, whereas according to the earlier history Solomon prepared and transported the materials for his temple by «a levy out of all Israel», (I Kings 5:13 - 16.)

And this creation - faith is articulated in Israel always in terms analogous to the exodus experience of formation out of the lifeless ground of Egyptian slavery, animation by Yahweh's breath and Word in escape, and autonomy, unqualified save by the creator - creature relationship, in Canaan's productive environment.

One answer is that given by Rabbi Lord Sacks, in the case focusing on the biblical sanction of slavery: God leads us by steps out of barbarism into civilization.

From a desert bush, enveloped yet not consumed by fire, Moses heard a voice announcing that the cry of the Hebrews had been heard, and that he, Moses, was the one destined to lead them out of slavery to freedom.

What if Slavery was put on the Ballot for a Vote, state by state would it of passed???? You can vote on civil rights, and the Supreme Court will finally have to legalize it, just like they did when Blacks could not marry out of their race as recent as 1971 in some states.

-- but instead by a breathtaking announcement of freedom: «I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery» (Ex.

Again as regards the slavery to sin, often it is only when we experience theconsequences of sin with a certain intensity that we are humble or docile enough to allow ourselves to be led out of it by God.

A nurse saying «I'll be right here beside you» becomes the action of a man risking his life for a stranger because he knows in his bones that he just can't leave him, «I am the Lord your God, who brought you... out of the house of slavery» prompts us to live lives shaped by the freedom created by that God.

Giving more insight for stopping the Nigerians from travelling, the source said it is to prevent young Nigerians from being lured into terrorism, prostitution, slavery and other untoward activities abroad by unscrupulous individuals hence it has continued to be stringent in scrutinizing those intending to travel out of the country.

Matthew Modine plays the handsome, well - educated swindler William Shaw, sold into slavery and bought out of it by Morgan when she needs someone to help her read the maps.

Based on a true story, the plot follows Solomon Northup (Ejiofor), a free black man tricked into slavery by a pair of men posing as circus promoters, then transported south to Louisiana, where he's forced to live out his predicament alongside a plantation owner (Fassbender).

The plot follows Solomon Northup (Ejiofor), a free black man tricked into slavery by a pair of men posing as circus promoters, then transported south to Louisiana, where he's forced to live out his predicament alongside a plantation owner (Fassbender).

The title of DuVernay's extraordinary and galvanizing film refers to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution — «Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States...» The progression from that second qualifying clause to the horrors of mass incarceration and the prison industry in the U.S. is laid out by DuVernay with bracing lucidity.

He soon was being hired - out by his master Samuel Turner (Armie Hammer) to other plantations, whose owners wanted Nat to preach scripture to their slaves, convincing them that they should stay obedient, even under the terrible conditions of slavery.

While the $ 38 million Steve McQueen's «12 Years a Slave» has now grossed could be seen in comparison to many recent major Oscar contenders as mildly underwhelming, when one considers the hardly marketable content (a dark, sometimes brutal exploration of slavery), its $ 20 million budget, and the fact that there could be a good $ 10 - 20 million where that came from once the Oscar nominations come out, «12 Years» stands firmly in the success story column (and should end up topping the aforementioned «Instructions» as the year's highest grossing specialty film by the end of January).

For a festival dedicated to online culture, transmediale served to remind us of the offline bodies intrinsically bound up in capitalism — through slavery, labour, migration — and demanded that we activate our bodies by speaking up and out in resistance.

Kara Walker also offers an unforgettable and disturbing comment on the horrors of slavery in an animated piece that portrays the rape of a black woman by a white man using her signature paper cut outs in the work «Ms. Pipi's Blue Tale.»

As per a recent survey carried out by the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply, only one in ten UK supply chain managers say that they have found evidence of modern slavery in their supply chains since the MCA came into force.