that we must be delivered from the communities of the flesh into the “community of the spirit.” The community of the spirit is the community of faith formed by those who are followers of the Lord Jesus Christ. The theory of cultural bias in the social sciences (Douglas 1982; Thompson, Ellis, and Wildavsky 1990) provides support, albeit unintentional, of the biblical notion of cultural systems as prisons. First Douglas and then colleagues who have followed her lead have argued that all human beings