(October 30, 2015 at 2:17 pm)Drich Wrote: Willingness to suffer is proof what a person believes. One has to look at the specifics of belief to validate those beliefs. You can't honestly dismiss all who suffer for their beliefs with a broad brush just because one belief is found to be wrong. Their is a vast difference for suffering out of blind faith, and suffering because you personally witnessed something miraclous and will not be moved or influenced in changing your story.
Paul's suffering is a testament to his orgins/conversion to his miracles, to his doctrine. He believe he brought the word of God because he was blessed in such a way that in that time only God could have blessed him. So he stood behind everything he taught with his fullest conviction because everything he witnessed and was able to do in life supported his understanding of who God was and what God wanted from all of us.
Too much special pleading here.
