I have to admit, I have a lot of respect for people on this site that can reasonably defend and state facts concerning their beliefs. Regardless of your faith (or lack thereof) I would like to know how far would you go to defend those convictions? Would you turn the proverbial cheek, or be willing to die for what you believe in?
2007-12-23 07:01:42 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I know what I am supposed to do. I hope that God would not ask me to face this kind of an event, because I know that I am weak. We should pass though all dangers with prayer. He will guide us.
2007-12-23 07:33:03 · answer #1 · answered by Bibs 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would die for them. I can honestly admit whiles I don't condone the 9/11 attacks, those Muslims taught me something. They taught me that its better to stand and die for something than to sit and live for nothing. Their are way to many people in this world that do nothing. Hell that's how Bush got in office.
God Bless
2007-12-23 15:19:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Many of my faith have died rather than compromise our faith. I would like to say me too. Reason stops me from being so overconfident.
The guiding thought is to obey man only leads to, perhaps, a rest time before agony and death. Never trust your torturer. Or obey God, who even though we die, can raise us from the dead onto a paradise earth cleansed of all tortures and those who would apply it.
2007-12-23 15:15:23 · answer #3 · answered by grnlow 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Dear friend, The truth of the Word of God is definately worth dying for, rather than to compromise and accept the lies of the Devil and his evil system. Freedom of conscience to worship God and freedom of thought is worth everything even death.
Jesus said this in Luke 12:4-6."And I say unto you my friends, be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, fear him. Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?" KJVBible.
Jesus illustrating and emphasising here the importance of the freedom of the expression of the truth of scripture, and that God is Omniscient, and Omnipresent, He knows all things at any given time and that absolutely nothing in His divine plan and the affairs of man and their intentions and devices escape His awareness! The apostles and disciples of the Lord Jesus refused to renounce their faith in God and would rather die and suffer as martyrs! Not only that, also the prophet Daniel and the three Hebrew boys, Shadrach, Mesach and Abednego were unafraid of the face of man but rather than deny the living God and serve a pagan king Nebuchadnezzar and bow down to idols, chose rather to suffer the affliction of the fiery furnace in Daniel chapter 3! No, freedom of conscience is worth living for and dying for. Rev. Joseph.
2007-12-23 16:19:25 · answer #4 · answered by Rev. Joseph . 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hope I would be able to die for my faith if it came up. Living for it tends to be the harder job though usually.
I'd also like to think I would not kill for it as we believe in learning war no more and are all conscientious objectors.
Debbie
2007-12-23 16:38:25 · answer #5 · answered by debbiepittman 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would die to defend my right to practice my religion in freedom. If it got to that point, however, I would be dying for much more than that. It would down to dying for my free speech and everything else this country is supposed to stand for.
2007-12-23 15:17:17 · answer #6 · answered by Cheryl E 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Thanks for a very timely and profound question. This has been much on my mind, as of late.
I am a born again Christian. I would never renounce my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Jesus promised that "he who lays down his life for Me will find it". I believe that with all my heart.
I think it is amusing that anyone would think that threatening a Christian with death is much of a threat. All that it would accomplish is a one way ticket home to a place that is infinitely more desirable than anything this earth has to offer.
2007-12-23 15:14:11 · answer #7 · answered by stucknda70s 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Of course I cannot know until I'm actually threatened (if that ever happens), but I like to think I'd die for my faith.
For example, if I was a missionary to some cannibals...well, I would go (I hope), even if it gave a 99% chance I would die. The thought scares me, but I hope I'd find courage.
2007-12-23 15:09:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
I was told my son would die without a blood transfusion and I refused it for him. For the record, a few years before that I refused one for myself as well....and we are both here still thriving :-)
2007-12-23 15:17:38 · answer #9 · answered by Dana C 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When I was a Christian I was willing to die for my faith and now that I am pagan I will still die for my faith if need be.
BB
2007-12-23 15:12:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋