Posted on 09/28/2011 3:56:28 PM PDT by wmfights
"Repent means to return. What should I return to? To the blasphemy that I had before my faith in Christ?" he asked.
"To the religion of your ancestors, Islam," the judge reportedly replied.
"I cannot," Nadarkhani responded.
Ping
FWIW, think of this Pastor's faith the next time you hesitate to explain The Gospel.
May the Presence of the Lord surround him and his loved ones, so that there is no doubt as to the reality of the one and only true and living God.
This pastor is such an inspiration. I just heard that there is an unconfirmed report that the death sentence has been overturned (http://aclj.org/iran/breaking-christian-pastor-death-sentence-overturned). I wish I knew if it would help to write letters to someone about it. Does anyone know? I’ve heard that we need to keep the pressure on Ahmadinijab, but where and how?
This is a true hero, a true martyr. Not a watered down “heroes” that US papers talk about or an Islamic zealot who perverts the word “martyr” by claiming to be one by killing people.
Amen!
You are so right.
Just sent the following to DRUDGE. It needs to be posted there big time.
Where is zero?
Pastor again refuses to recant as pressure builds on Iran to halt execution
Iran is under increasing pressure from leaders around the world to halt the execution of Iranian pastor Yousef Nadarkhani, who on Wednesday refused for the fourth and final time to recant his faith and could be executed at any time.
In the U.S., Speaker of the House John Boehner released a statement urging Iran to spare the pastor’s life and release him. Overseas, British Foreign Secretary William Hague also called on Iran to overturn the sentence.
Observers say external pressure could be critical in preventing the Iranian government from performing its first apostasy execution since 1990.
Arrested in 2009, Nadarkhani was told by an Iranian court this year that he would be executed unless he converted to Islam. The court gave him four chances to recant Christianity, and he refused to do so on four consecutive days this week, the final being Wednesday,...
http://bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=36211
They make it very hard to want to witness to them, but this is why. They are so lost in the evil of islam they serve the devil.
Supporting his islamic brothers?
Joh 6:67-69 So Jesus said to the Twelve, "Do you want to go away as well?" Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God."
The evidence of true faith. May God be merciful and gracious to a man of such testimony and may He richly bless his family. May I have such faith.
Amen Brother, I had the same thought.
If everyone in Persia (Iran) kept the religion of their ancestors, there would be no Muslims in the country, which was Zoroastrian prior to the Islamic conquest.
If they murder this innocent man, then it would be my pleasure if somehow a big old bomb winds up right in the middle of the Imam’s mosque that charged him, or the court that sentenced him. Ka-Boom...one strike for freedom from this death cult...Ka-Boom...one strike for justice for the innocent.
That is true!
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