You never know until it is happening to you and your own family....we always think ourselves noble and upright until the acid test happens - then we find out for sure.
Every single one of you are 100% correct. No one knows, they will destroy the family into prison with me, forced confession, etc.
But that has happened in history before, and a small confession, or sprinkling a little incense on an altar, or promising not to preach about hellfire and brimstone, and all of this goes away.
It actually never goes away, the first time you agree to their demands brings a second time, and the face in the mirror becomes more and more like the people doing the threatening.
Many, too numerous to name, men and women have been threatened like this in the past, they refused to bow or bend the knee, and history eventually vindicates them. And God has and will vindicate them.
I would rather stand for right, no matter the cost. And I do not agree with the statement, “no one knows what they will do.” If you inure yourself to hardship, if you train up yourself and your family to do what is right, no matter how small or the cost, you will KNOW what to do in that day. Whether you do it or not is your choice, but we have the power to do right within us, if we follow the one who set the standard.