How do trials and persecution affect our personal identities? What effects do they have on our beliefs and convictions? If you are completely changed after a serious trial or persecution - you deny or reject your previous beliefs and convictions - does it mean you were never really true to it to begin with?
No you may have changed your mind or been stressed and have made a mistake and give it time for you to gather your life back together
ReplyDeleteI agree give it time and make your mind up
DeleteThat makes since if your having a hard time in life give yourself time to get you life put back together
DeleteI strongly agree with your thought
DeleteIt's true
DeleteNo it doesn't its just that your having a hard time but you always get back on track but now if your not trying to get your beliefs back then it was never true cause you fail away from you faith wasn't trying to gain it back
ReplyDeleteTrials and persecution could bring and person down but got to stay strong. Sometimes it don't take you away from your faith depends on how strong you are into your belief.
ReplyDeleteIf you truly believe and have faith then you are not going to give up so quickly on what you have been practicing. If you are going through a hard time and you give up your faith then you don't really believe because if you believe you can do anything with gods help then you would pray and ask for help, you wouldn't just give up.
ReplyDeleteI agree, prayer helps a lot.
DeleteI really like this comment it's true what you really believe you want give up so easily
DeleteTrials and persecution can effect your personal identity different ways depending on the person. Some people grow stronger in their religion in hard times, others loose faith. If you loose you faith I don't think it necessarily means that you never had faith just not a very strong faith.
ReplyDeleteJust because you deny your faith, doesn't mean you were never faithful. It just means that you were scared to tell.
ReplyDeleteBut if you were truest faithful you would never lose your faith.
DeleteIt doesn't mean you never had true faith; faith is always there. Human beings, as a whole, have different ways of believing. Some are able to grow as people with pain, while others are traumatized by the thoughts of the belief. Persecution causes people to question, but can also cause them grow.
ReplyDeleteA persecution can affect you in a good and bad way normally it draws you closer to your faith and if you lost your faith or religion normally it's because you lost your hope or faith in the situation.
ReplyDeleteTrial and persecution affect our personal identity because it will slowly break you down and if your not truely faithful, you will lose your faith. They have great affects on our beliefs because it will test your beliefs to extreme limits.Yes because if your true to your faith ou will be faithful grew the hardest times.
ReplyDeleteIf lose your faith you will not be strong, if you keep your faith you will be strong an make it through whatever is going on and you will not give up you will keep trying.
ReplyDeleteI think that it makes your stronger and more wise because you've been through a whole lot and it just changes you. And if you fall away from your faith, I don't think you were never true in the beginning. You just never thought that anything would happen to you like that and if it didn't help you, you didn't really want it anymore.
ReplyDeleteTrials can affect people's faith positively and negatively. Some people are strong in their faith and and the trials they go through can help them become stronger. If you do leave your faith after a trial,you didn't have enough strength to go through it. You didn't have a passion for that faith to help you endure.
ReplyDeleteYes I agree
DeleteIt depends on how strong that person is, if a persons strong then they will more than likely keep their faith. But if a person is weak or a born again Christian they may question their faith or if god is ever going to help them. That person could go to church ever Sunday and say their a Christian and not be one or they could be a true Christian and in my opinion a true Christian will keep his or her faith and may even bring humor her closer to god
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DeleteYou could lose your faith because persecution will make you distressed and not wanting to believe any more. Some times horrible sometimes great because you can become a stronger believer or lose all your faith. If you think that something hurt you so bad that you can't believe any more then you weren't true o your belief.
ReplyDeleteWell going through tough times can change the person you turn out to be it helps you create your morals and values. No it doesn't mean that you were never really true about it, it's just some things can change our perspective of how we see things.
ReplyDeleteIt affects us because when this type of thing happens, all that's left is our faith in our beliefs, if we are religious and we don't think we will make it. Sometimes when times get a little dicey, we will throw in a prayer here and there but thats not necessarily a religious belief and we will lose that after persecution. And no, it does not mean that you were never truly dedicated, it just means you have lost all hope and you just don't think He would put you through that.
ReplyDeleteIf you change you don't have as much faith as you clame they will test your faith
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