[RnMomof7]

My sister told me once that in these end days there will be some Christians that will be martyred, and that I might be one of them- that I just don't know. I proceded to tell her that if she was right, I could never trust God (have faith in His word) that He would protect me from lethal persecution, for I would always wonder (doubt) if perhaps this was His plan for my way of death. I proceded to tell her that since I don't doubt God, I cannot accept her doctrine. Her doctrine is one that placed doubt into our faith for God's protection upon us. And since you cannot please God without faith, her doctrine would cause us to be displeasing toward God.

Ask Steven,or Peter or Paul..

If your faith depends on being saved from prosecution you need to consider if it is saving faith.

Revelation - 12:11And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.

[greggy]

If you take off the blinders of tradition and look at what the bible actually says, you will see that Steven yield up his spirit- any Christian can do that. He was not killed.

Neither was Paul. Do you remember what Paul said? He said that he did not know which to choose, to be here on earth or up in heaven. According to your beliefs, the choice was not his.

I believe Jesus when he said that greater works will I do, since he went to the father. What was one of the works he did? He CHOSE when to die.