Is dying for your beliefs the ultimate test?

Answer 1

== == No. This "dying for your beliefs" is used on the ignorants to propagate the zealot's agenda. Osama bin Laden is still alive, isn't he? Yes and no, which is really the way it is. If a Christian lives his life as best he can, glorifying Christ in all that he does all his life (once he was saved), he can die at peace in his bed, or in that of a hospital or even better at peace being killed for his beliefs, like Christ, Stephen, most if not all of the Apostles, and those Christians in Foxes book of martyrs. Christ lived a perfect life, and at the end, he died an unbelievably savage death, but He was at peace still. He was at such a peace that He unknowingly witnessed to the thief next to Him and won him too, promising him paradise, not to mention praying to His Father to forgive those who were killing Him. Dying for your beliefs, if they are correct, is one of the best ways to die. If your beliefs are correct, there is no better way to show your love and devotion to Jehovah than to die for Him peacefully (without taking the lives of others, who may not be saved like you. Taking the lives of random people will send the lost to hell and that is inexcusable). No. I think dying for faith in The Lord is rare at least in the West. Its not a factor in say the USA, Britain or Australia all that much. Probably more common in the Third World where there is violence and unrest and demon powers oppressing the peoples. I think PERSEVERENCE is also "an ultimate test". Getting born again (John 3:3) and marching on with Jesus every day, through lifes ups and downs, is as noble as dying for Him. Every day we put away sin and soldier on, giving Jesus the Glory. Every believer is the ultimate warrior if he or she stays with Christ.