He is God's clinically depressed man — a former military chaplain, an alcoholic haunted by his son's death in the Iraq War, privately humiliated by the example of Christ and the stern Dutch ministers who once hid runaway
slaves under the floorboards of this small clapboard church.
My heart goes out to its citizens who live as virtual prisoners and
slaves under the most oppressive regime in the world.
Meanwhile, heeding Minto's advice to «do as much good as we can» while governing Java, Raffles reformed the colonial administration of the island, limiting the powers of the great landowners over their tenants and ameliorating the worst abuses of slavery while banning the importation of
slaves under fourteen years of age.
The Church has been and will always be a political organization trying to keep a bunch of
slaves under their thumb.
Their conglomerate tribal origins as
slaves under persecution by Pharaoh Rameses II is the setting for the emergence of the Hebrews as a people under the leadership of Moses.
Slaves under Mosaic Law were different from the harshly treated slaves of other societies, more like servants or bondservants.
observer «The Bible supports:» «slavery» = > No, the Bible begins to reign in the abuse of slaves as was common and remind the Hebrew to never forget what it felt like for 430 years as oppressed
slaves under Egypt; «I am the Lord your God who set you free from the slavery of Egypt».
The Israelites did not choose to be
slaves under Pharaoh's thumb, nor did they ask to be refugees expelled from their land by Babylon's army.
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.
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.
Keep it in context you will note they were reminded of their oppression as
slaves under Egypt and set free by God.
If you answer that you yourself in no way would own
a slave under any circu.mstance, then you have shown that you believe slavery to be immoral, unlike god, and show that god is immoral.
Then for about three hours we'd been rolling our hand truck back and forth between the car and our booth at the Convention Center, then
slaving under the fluorescent lights, which were turned up to nine.
Not exact matches
As for the conditions of Chinese workers etc that some have blamed on multinationals like Apple (and thus by proxy on Jobs), I thank my lucky stars I was born in the West and not in China, but does anybody really believe they were better off
slaving in a rice field for 12 hours a day
under hardline communism?
And if modern central banks are no longer
slaves to national treasuries, they're still
under constant pressure to cater to them — pressure to which they often give in.
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.
The govt had dismantaled the Central bank (
under Jackson I believe) but the creation of the Fed meant Americans will forever be in debt,
slave if you will to thee banking system.
He subjugated other people
under him as
slaves, and he tried to reverse God's will on the planet.
Admittedly, Jews could be
slaves, and could sell their own children into slavery
under Jewish law, however...
«Allah citeth an example for those who disbelieve: the wife of Noah and the wife of Lot, who were
under two of our righteous
slaves yet betrayed them so that they (the husbands) availed them naught against Allah and it was said (unto them): Enter the Fire along with those who enter» (Surah LXVI, 10).
Our Islam teachings tells us that people are not the same it is said that people are consisting of three groups explained here
under: - Some worship God out of fear and that is the worship of
slaves.
c) As minors we are
under guardians and are no better than
slaves to the elemental spirits of the universe.
Historians know that
slaves living
under Catholic - influenced codes were baptized and permitted to marry.
Trading legalism for pietism is really no improvement, we are no longer
under the power of the law, and no longer
slaves to sin, we still can and do fall short of perfection, in fact, Romans 7 gives us a pretty clear picture of the kind of abject failure that results from trying to live a pious life
under our own power.
Israel multiplied
under Egyptian
slave masters, and Jews rose to prominence in Babylonian and Persian exile, as they learned to sing the Lord's songs in a foreign land.
ANDAR or
under is ABD or
Slave.
The climax of the democratization of work has come about through machine technology,
under which machines are used to perform most of what was formerly done by
slaves, and much more besides.
He detailed how some had been: «evicted from their homes and native lands, sold as
slaves, killed, beheaded, crucified or burned alive,
under the shameful and complicit silence of so many,» suggesting it was legitimate to try to stop an «unjust aggressor» like Islamic State.
It will take painstaking research to determine how much liability adheres to a family that might have owned one or two
slaves at different times over two hundred years, and how much to a family that owned hundreds of
slaves without interruption, and
under conditions that would make any civilized conscience falter.
The long record of racial mixing
under slavery between masters and female
slaves (as in the much - debated case of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings) produced populations that were so lightskinned that they passed into white society (as several of Sally Hemings» children did) and populations so darkskinned that they lost all memory of the white European genes they inherited.
Actually Mohammed by his teaching did a great deal to ameliorate the harsh conditions
under which
slaves lived.
In its declining days the despised Aperu
slaved on the mighty works of the pharoah, until hardy spirits among them made a bold bid for freedom and exodus
under their shepherd deliverer.
Under your mohammad,
slaves and poets were executed, captives were beheaded, and adulterers were put into the ground and stoned.
I have a dream that multitudes of God's people will no longer tolerate those man - made systems that have put them in religious bondage and
under a pile of guilt, duty, condemnation, making them
slaves to authoritarian systems and leaders.
I went
under the interstate and to the
slave market for about a year.
So they spent 430 years
under slave masters that oppressed them in Egypt.
We have spent days in discussion of the finer details of the treatment of
slaves bound
under Exodus 21:20 - 21.
Exodus 21:20 - 21 When a man strikes his male or female
slave with a rod so hard that the
slave dies
under his hand, he shall be punished.
You have offered opinions regarding
slaves bound to the Hebrews
under the law are valuable assets.
Exodus 21:20 — When a man strikes his male or female
slave with a rod so hard that the
slave dies
under his hand, he shall be punished.
The Davidic covenant demanded that the king be
under the Covenant Code in which the
slaves are to be liberated and they should be protected.
Exodus 21:20 «When a man strikes his male or female
slave with a rod so hard that the
slave dies
under his hand, he shall be punished.»
is not the same as: When a man strikes his male or female
slave with a rod so hard that the
slave dies
under his hand, he shall be punished.
Under that assumption the
slave would not be damaged property.
Slaves were by common practice disciplined or chastised by the rod which came out of their own 430 year slavery
under Egypt.
Vast stores of hidden wealth, gained by committing every crime in the book, and millions of fear - driven, deluded «
slaves» who have been trained to give their very souls if need be... all
under the thumbs of mere humans who use their power for every vice imaginable.
With all of these discussions and opinions you shared in great detail regarding
slaves bound
under biblical law, how can you say that you do not admit that the bible condones slavery?
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.
Our freedom is that though evil exists it does not have to have power over us any longer that is the message of the Gospel even though
slaves became christians it did nt initially stop slavery not for many years but it helped the
slaves to survive and gave them hope that one day God had something better for them and eventually because of christians activists slavery was abolished.Just like us our hope is not in the here and now but that one day we would be finally free from the corruption of this world but while we are in it we are not
under its evil influence and i not meaning that bad things do not happen to christians but that in Christ we have been set free from its power over us.brentnz
Here is God's rule for beating your
slaves to within an inch of their ilves: «When a man strikes his male or female
slave with a rod so hard that the
slave dies
under his hand, he shall be punished.