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No, but it sure helps when someone makes a claim that they can back it up with evidence. Sorry, but your claims are not necessarily going to be believed based on your word alone any more than mine. If you're not able or willing to back up what you say, then don't hold me accountable for not taking your word only as truth.
We have been promised persecution.
There are preachers here in the US that rant and rave AGAINST the news as lies designed to drag people away from Faith.
Yes. We do not find Paul rolling over and just letting his persecutors have free reign.
That has nothing to do with the discussion. In the US people have lost jobs, positions in education and so on because of exercising their right to free speech. (A teenager girl objected to a teenage boy who decided to declare himself “trans” so he can watch the girls change. He himself wasn’t changing or part of a team.) She was suspended. So much for free speech but Milk-Drops doesn’t believe this happens unless he can see hard evidence, something no court demands of witnesses.
When Jesus told us to be his witnesses, I suppose the unbelievers have the right to demand hard evidence of the resurrection from you right? Your claims He lives should not be believed if you cannot provide hard evidence of him being alive.
Actually he did not argue with his persecutors. He usually left town if he could. He debated those in the synagogue who were willing to listen to the claims of Christ. They were not persecuting him at that point.
I was thinking of when he was arrested in Jerusalem and appeared before Felix Herod etc.
I looked into this, and he was indeed fired by the mayor. He then won a cival suit against Atlanta for 1.2 million dollars because the courts did find it discriminatory.
I looked in on this, and it looks more like Peter was fired for expressing that he thought homosexuals were "into bad stuff" to his lesbien boss after she mentioned she was getting maried. Now do I think he should have been fired? No, but do I think that telling your boss you think they are bad and expecting nothing to happen?......yeesh.
This is a strange one. It looks like the situation was the Abraham was working at a biological research facility where one of the the projects being researched involved Oceanic evolution. So the situation to his employers seems similar to an electrician not believing in electricity. He was fired because the institute didn't think he could actually do the research.
The first one ended with the person winning a settlement, the second one was because of a signed antidiscrimination clause in their working agreement. The last one is weird because it seems like a person didn't accept what they were even researching.
Ah, I see. You meant like arguing his case in court in a controlled situation, not when being whipped. When given the chance to defend his position, that is, the faith, he did and superbly.
No
Ezekiel 9:4 kjv
Except here in the states the US Supreme Court ruled in favor of religous liberty.
The examples I gave all happened in the states.
If you are lucky enough to have your case presented there although by then you have suffered injustice so long it doesn't mean as much to you personally.
The US has become scary. Since you are from England, you probably know about the 100+ ministers who wrote to Johnson declaring that they were not going to close their doors in Covid times. Boris did not know what to do, probably not wanting to take on the church united, so the government opened up the whole country to everyone. To me it was like BIBle courage as in Daniel and won a blessing for the land. I am proud of my British brethren who stood up to the government. A few in the US did not but most bowed down and closed their churches. Rolled up their arms and when the government said, "be afraid" they obediently were afraid. My compliments to your clergy!!!
Nevertheless this is not it.
Yes, are you aware of the Supreme Court verdict from this year?