Sentences with phrase «christians died for their faith»

More Christians died for their faith in the twentieth century than in all the years of Christendom combined.

David Mills is Executive Officer of First Things Justice, Peace and the Martyrs Thousands and possibly tens of thousands of Christians die for the faith every year, notes Daniel Philpott, writing in the Jesuit magazine America.

This year, almost 90,000 Christians died for their faith, according to an Italian research group.

Any way you look at it, tens of thousands of Christians die for their faith every year.

«While it is good that no Christians died for their faith in Vietnam, the authorities continue to crack down on ethnic minority Christians and will start implementing a new law on religion in 2018 for all Christians.»

Not exact matches

On Easter to proclaim that Christians were never really persecuted and didn't really die for their faith is beyond shameful.

Real faith may even require you to die for your belief (as did early Christians).

According to his obituary, Broomfield died «fighting in defense of those being persecuted for their Christian faith.

(CNN)- A Sudanese woman has been freed from prison a month after being sentenced to die by hanging for refusing to renounce her Christian faith.

Indeed, the radical Christian has taken this original ground of the Christian faith to its inevitable fulfillment: if all eternity must pass through «Self - Annihilation,» then God himself must die to make possible the redemptive triumph of the apocalypse, for his death reverses that «Self - hood» which is the source of the fall.

I didn't pray for leukemia but I got it children die everyday new souls in this sometimes very cruel world what kind of god does that I'm sure you'll say the sins of the father or it just wasn't gods plan or if we were better Christians then we wouldn't be punished or our faith was being tested and to all of you I say what a cruel child of a god you have that» tests his flock he so lovingly created excuse after excuse I'll keep my faith in the science that put my cancer in remission and if I'm wrong I'll march straight into hell knowing I made no excuses

If you want to get serious about faith, report on those dying for their faith every day in areas like the Middle East, North Korea, China, India, Afghanistan... places where Christians have no rights and are persecuted daily.

Christians says faith is the evidence of things not seen but the die hard «the big bang is true» refuse to admit that all they have is evidence for the thing not seen thus making it a belief.

Stirred by the example of the martyrs who died rather than deny their Lord, Christians today should be prepared to make sacrifices for their faith.

They alone commend goodness to the world, for most people choose goodness, if they choose it at all, for the same reason that Tolstoy became a Christian: «I saw around me people who, having this faith, derived from it an idea of life that gave them strength to live and strength to die in peace and in joy.»

It is a win - win for this faithful christian man: if he lives then justice has been done and an innocent life is preserved, if he dies his death will only mean the growth of the faith his willing to die for.

* Believe in Jesus Christ, that he died for you This requires that you get rid of your old sinful ways If you TRULY believe, that is, love Him and give your life to Him, good works and fruit will come out, but these are not what make you a Christian, they are simply an indicator of your faith in Jesus Pray, Read the Bible, Love God, Love others, worship God (live for Him in all you do, take up your cross, and know that in all of this God is very patient and loving

Is Christian faith Incompatible with the views of Hitler and his minions, and are the differences worth dying for?

while breifly going thru this artical it was makeing my stomach turn, this is just what the devil wants is for doubt and confusion, christianity is growing stronger than ever, souls are being saved and lives are changing every day, and do nt for one minute think any different, or try tp put christians down, why would we loose faith, god answers our prayers everyday, think what you want and do what you do, but do nt try to put things in other people's opinion or minds, jesus died for our sins, so that we can have better lives and be forgiven for our sins here on earth and move on to a beter place, becouse souls do nt die «read the bible, if you do nt understand it, find a church that can help you learn a better way of life, I pray for everyone out there that does nt know jesus christ as ther savior to accept what he has to offer to you «love forgiveness and ever lasting life «Christians» stay strong and [ass the word of god on and share all your tedtimonies in life» god bless everyone&raqchristians down, why would we loose faith, god answers our prayers everyday, think what you want and do what you do, but do nt try to put things in other people's opinion or minds, jesus died for our sins, so that we can have better lives and be forgiven for our sins here on earth and move on to a beter place, becouse souls do nt die «read the bible, if you do nt understand it, find a church that can help you learn a better way of life, I pray for everyone out there that does nt know jesus christ as ther savior to accept what he has to offer to you «love forgiveness and ever lasting life «Christians» stay strong and [ass the word of god on and share all your tedtimonies in life» god bless everyone&raqChristians» stay strong and [ass the word of god on and share all your tedtimonies in life» god bless everyone»»

The myth of the Last Judgment enabled the Jews, and later the Christians, to believe already that the martyrs had not died in vain, for God would be certain to vindicate their faith and loyalty by his divine pronouncement.

Christian faith, for Wright, is not about going to heaven when you die.

Francis, who became pontiff in 2013, has repeatedly paid tribute to Christians suffering or dying for their faith in current times, especially in the Middle East.

As the demographic cotinues to change and these people die off, the conservative far right will be either irrelevant or forced to embrace those true Christian ideals of loving and accepting their neighbors in a country not founded upon Christian beliefs but tolerance for all faiths.

Gil you have asked some very good questions why does bad things happen in the world i personally do nt know God did nt explain to Job either why he had to suffer.What i do know is that God desires that none of us should perish but that all would have eternal life in him through Jesus Christ.This world will one day pass away and the real world will be reborn so our focus as christians is on whats to come and being a witness in the here and now.Both good and bad happens to either the righteous or the sinner so what are we to make of that.What we do know is that God will set all things right at the appointed time the wicked will be judged and the righteous will be rewarded for there faith isnt that enough reason for us to believe.Free will is only a reality if we can choose between good and bad but our hearts are deceitfully wicked we naturally are inclined toward sin that is another reason whyt we need to be saved from ourselves so what are we to do.For me Christ died and rose again that is a fact witnessed by over 500 people that were alive at the time and was recorded by historians how many other religious leaders do you know that did that or did the miracles that Jesus did.As far as the bible is concerned much of the archelogical evidence has proven to be correct and many of prophetic words spoken many hundreds of years ago have come to pass including both the birth and the death of Jesus.Interested in what philosophy you are believing in if other than a faith in Jesus Christ so how does that philosophy give you the assurance that you are saved.Its really simple with christianity we just have to believe in Jesus Christ.brentnz

True Christians have never denied his existence, in fact believe it so much they are prepared to die for their faith in God.

Within a very few years at most the resurrection had become so prominent and so firmly joined with the crucifixion in Christian faith that Paul would speak of «Christ Jesus, who died, yes, who was raised from the dead» (Rom 8:34), and would give as the substance of the gospel he had received and passed on «that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures... and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve,» and to others (I Cor 15:3 - 5).

Given the sheer numbers of Christian dead and the number of ways they were killed, it is difficult to determine whether they fit the canonical criteria of dying in odium fidei (at the hands of enemies of the faith) or for refusing to apostatize under specific pressure to do so.

But today in countries all over the world Christians are still dying for their faith.

Decisions had to be made from time to time as to where or when services of the church would be held; the church needed to be told of the impending visit of an apostle, or of some prophet or teacher from abroad; a question has been raised as to the good faith of one of these visitors, and there must be some discussion of the point and a decision on it; a fellow Christian from another church is on a journey and needs hospitality; a member of the local congregation planning to visit a church abroad needs a letter of introduction to that church, which someone must be authorized to provide; a serious dispute about property rights or some other legal matter has arisen between two of the brothers and the church must name someone to help them settle the issue or must in some other way deal with it; a new local magistrate has begun to prosecute Christians for violating the law against unlicensed assembly, and consideration must be given to ways and means of meeting this crisis; charges have been brought against one of the members by another member, and these must be investigated and perhaps some disciplinary action taken; one of the members has died, and the church is called on for some special action in behalf of his family in the emergency; differences of opinion exist in the church on certain questions of morals or belief (such as marriage and divorce, or the resurrection), differences which local prophets and teachers are apparently unable to compose, and a letter must be written to the apostle — who will write this letter and what exactly will it say?

I was saved through Faith in Christian who loved me, and everyone who would receive his gift, to die for us on the Cross for our sins.