Sentences with phrase «slaves of god»

«But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.»

Q7) Do you consider any none Christians «Religious or not Religious», as Slaves of God and not as Godly as you are?

22 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.

We have been set free from sin and our responsibility as Christians is to work together with Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit to stay that way, slaves of God.

It is also to be the slave of God's slaves (to exaggerate only slightly the meaning of servus in the traditional description of the pope as servus servorum Dei).

«In the name of God, the compassionate, the merciful; from Muhammad, slave of God and prophet, to Heraclius, lord of the Romans; peace be upon the rightly guided.

When the Christian is freed from sin and becomes the slave of God, the return he receives is sanctification (Romans 6:22).

That is no lovely, interesting theory about the origin of the world; if you believe this, you are a «slave of God,» your life then has another meaning, then you are really another man.

As for the gentiles, they were slaves of gods who actually have no existence; they served the elemental spirits (later, through Christ's work, weak and impoverished).

Isra means slave and el means God and totally means the slave of God and is the name of prophet Jacob a.s.

You're going to want to play Slave of God, a little indie game from Stephen Lavelle.

Not exact matches

(Surah 9:37 --RRB- Fight for the cause of God with the devotion due to Him... He has given you the name of Muslims...» (Surah 22:78 --RRB- Blessed are the believers... who restrain their carnal desires (except with their wives and slave - girls, for these are lawful to them)... These are the heirs of Paradise...» (Surah 23:1 - 5 --RRB- Muhammad is God's apostle.

Keep it in context you will note they were reminded of their oppression as slaves under Egypt and set free by God.

The Chosen Ones were a holy people onto God and the laws protecting foreigners and slaves was unique to honor God who brought them out of slavery.

It doens» t sound strange to me at all, I too can think for myself... because I was a believer in God long before I read His book, the difference is I acknowledge that I am not in control of this life, I can choose to either be a slave to sin or a slave to God, either way I am a slave just as you are, but I choose to be a slave to my God who created me, who or what do you choose to be a slave to?

We have been slaves to an idea of an abstract God for thousands of years and now that we finally realize it, we are becoming slaves to reason.

Tom, Tom, the Other One «Perhaps it is right and good for this God to make unrighteous, morally weak, ignorant unbelievers slaves under the control of the people who do believe and obey its Word.

Slavery might not be the ideal, but God still provided rules that would provide for better treatment of slaves.

God knows that we are slaves of the original sin by nature.

ME II beat me to it, but it's unbelievable that you are trying to rationalize slavery, regardless the of «type» and this is why we view god as immoral while you still think god can be moral and outline when it's acceptable to own a slave.

Perhaps it is right and good for this God to make unrighteous, morally weak, ignorant unbelievers slaves under the control of the people who do believe and obey its Word.

Why didn't your extra-special all - knowing god tell his people that they should free their slaves instead of keeping them?

It fosters an attitude of self hatred and slave mentality to a vengeful, petty god.

9We also know that lawa is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious; for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, 10for adulterers and perverts, for slave traders and liars and perjurers — and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine 11that conforms to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which he entrusted to me.

Since you chose the right god, you will now be allowed to be one of God's slaves for all of eternigod, you will now be allowed to be one of God's slaves for all of eterniGod's slaves for all of eternity.

Then he also started receiving regular communications from God telling him to kill pagens, smite unbeilevers, take no prisoners, beat your wife if she steps out of line, be a martyr by fighting for Allah and receive 72 virgins in a beautiful garden, and my favorite... Allah said that Muhammed alone could have access to any woman he desired except wives of other Muslims — slave girls, prisoners, widows, NIECES, daughters, you name it, all fair game for the Prophet of Allah.

The real Tom «Why didn't your extra-special all - knowing god tell his people that they should free their slaves instead of keeping them?»

Ephesians 6:5 - 9 (NRSV) Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, in singleness of heart, as you obey Christ; not only while being watched, and in order to please them, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, in singleness of heart, as you obey Christ; not only while being watched, and in order to please them, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart.

What logical, caring person can support slavery, discrimination against women, discrimination against gays, discrimination against the handicapped, beating children, beating elderly female slaves without punishment, supporting a god who would let the family of his greatest supporter be killed to WIN A BET, etc..?

To not only claim to know there is a God but to claim you know his name and how he wants all his slave humans to behave is beyond hubris, it is self deification, claiming to know the mind of God, regardless of whether you rely on some ancient book for that knowledge or not.

The Bible is the source of equality... in that it is written that God is not a respector of persons for there are neither male nor female, slave or free... we are all equal.

Maybe a slave or two could help you with that as you beat them and curse them in the name of your God because they just need some «discipline».

Evidently, you have never heard of John Newton — the former slave trader gave up that vocation upon coming to understand the Gospel of Jesus Christ, became a clergyman, and wrote the words of the great hymn «Amazing Grace» to celebrate and glorify God's unfathomable ability to FORGIVE — which hymn then became an anthem of the Christian anti-slavery movements in both Britain and the United States.

You have NEVER explained where the morals come from that find it IMMORAL to support the sale of 6 - year - old (or 8 - year - old or any age) girls to STRANGERS for their use as SLAVES like God did.

A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell - mouths mercy, and invented hell - mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!

They asked who could question the Word of God when it said, «slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling» (Ephesians 6:5), or «tell slaves to be submissive to their masters and to give satisfaction in every respect» (Titus 2:9).

I believe in choosing to be a servant, to be a slave to my neighbors as a reflection of God's love.

The American Black slave is a descendant from the God of Jacob & the Star of Jacob is Christ (Psalm 77:15) * Exodus 11:7 *

Until the current deity of choice (The God of Abraham) actually shows himself, I for one will not accept the talking snakes, virgin births, and condemnation of personal freedoms that surround the belief in him — like stoning someone for working on the sabbath, or killing children who curse their parents, or the rules of owning slaves, all concepts clearly stated in the Old Testament.

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.

Discovering this reference to Judas made by slaves caused me to look at the Beatitudes again, for this was the model of blessing from God with which I was familiar.

According to the Bible God hated more than he loved, and the crap that is the 1st few books of the old testament, which s barbaric and evil, not only to those men that are an abombanation, but those that not only eat pork, but touch a football, shellfish, work on the sabbath, blasphamy, slaves who do nt allow there master to sleep with there wifes / daughters, and those that dared not idolise him because he is a jealous and vengeful God!

When I get to heaven goin'ta put on shoes and walk all over God's heaven») For the slave, it was a place like John the Revelator saw — a place where «night shall be no more; they need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they shall reign for ever and ever» (Rev. 22:5)

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God / The Prophet Samuel: «they have rejected me [God] as their king» «warn them solemnly and let them know what the king who will reign over them will claim as his rights» «He will take your sons and make them serve» «He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers» «He will take a tenth of your grain and of your vintage and give it to his officials and attendants» «you yourselves will become his slaves.

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).

Yes, the Apostle Paul spoke about how there is «neither male nor female, slave nor free, Jew nor Gentile» in the family of God, but he was also quick to acknowledge those same categories when he saw one group oppressing the other.

As an expression of His mercy and His goodness to His slaves, He has made man master of the earth, God's deputy on earth to make use of its blessings by using and developing its natural resources.