Many who side with this view disagree that Luke portrays Christianity or the Roman Empire as harmless and thus reject the apologetic view because “ Acts does not present Christians as politically harmless or law abiding for there are a large number of public controversies concerning Christianity, particularly featuring Paul .” For example, to support this view Cassidy references how Paul is accused of going against the Emperor because he is “ saying that there is another king named Jesus .” ( Acts 17: 7 ) Furthermore, there are multiple examples of Paul ’ s preaching causing uprisings in various cities ( Acts 14: 2 ; 14: 19 ; 16: 19-23 ; 17: 5 ; 17: 13-14 ; 19: 28-40 ; 21: 27 ).

For American Christians, The Oxford Handbook of Religion and American Politics notes: " The GSS ... has asked a born-again question on three occasions ... ' Would you say you have been ' born again ' or have had a ' born-again ' experience?

For example, in the United States, IntegrityUSA represents the interests of lesbian and gay Christians in the Episcopal Church, while United Methodists have the Reconciling Ministries Network and evangelical Christians have Evangelicals Concerned.

For most Christians, it is the stated or " confessed " belief in Jesus as Savior that makes God's grace available to an individual, and salvation can come no other way ( Solus Christus in Protestantism, Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus in Catholicism, see Dual covenant theology for a dissenting view ).

For some Christians, such as Roman Catholics and Orthodox Christians, this New Covenant includes authoritative Sacred Traditions and Canon law.

For Christians, Jesus is also fully human and fully divine as the Word of God who sacrifices himself so that humans can receive salvation.

For many centuries the Enchiridion was regarded as a suitable manual of practical philosophy, maintaining its authority both with Christians and Pagans.

For instance, they interpret the exhortation to defend one ’ s faith “ with gentleness and reverence ” in 3: 15-16 as a response to Pliny executing Christians for the obstinate manner in which they professed to be Christians.

For effectively crushing the tyranny of the infidels, we grant to those who go to Jerusalem and also to those who give aid toward the defense of the Christians, the remission of their sins and we take under the protection of St. Peter and the Roman Church their homes, their families, and all their belongings, as was already ordained by Pope Urban II.

For Jews and Christians alike, the theological importance of Genesis centers on the covenants linking God to his Chosen People and the people to the Promised Land.

For 250 years Christians suffered from sporadic persecutions for their refusal to worship the Roman emperor, considered treasonous and punishable by execution.

For some Christians, the success was simply the natural consequence of the truth of the religion and the hand of Providence.

For those Orthodox Christians who follow the Julian Calendar, this day falls on December 25 of the Gregorian Calendar, and thus provides a spiritual alternative to what some believe to be the increasingly secularized celebration of Christmas.

For the majority of Christians, the belief in the Holy Trinity implies the existence of three distinct Holy Persons: God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit being One Eternal Triune God.

For the majority of Christians, the Holy Spirit ( prior English language usage: the Holy Ghost from Old English gast, “ spirit ”) is the third person of the Holy Trinity — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and is Almighty God.

For example, the crossing of his arms to bestow his patriarchal blessing on them in is seen as a foreshadowing of the blessings Christians believe resulted from Jesus ' death on the cross.

For Christians, the concept of a Judeo-Christian tradition comfortably suggests that Judaism progresses into Christianity — that Judaism is somehow completed in Christianity.

For instance, amillennial and postmillennial Christians do not believe in the same timeline of the Second Coming as premillennialists, while preterist Christians do not interpret the Book of Revelation to predict future events at all.

For Christians, Moses — mentioned more often in the New Testament than any other Old Testament figure — is often a symbol of God's law, as reinforced and expounded on in the teachings of Jesus.

For centuries, it has been the custom of many Christians to share dyed and painted eggs, particularly on Easter Sunday.

For example Tuomas Abrahaminpoika ( to be read in English as " Tuomas, Abraham's son ") and Martta Heikintytär ( to be read in English as " Martta, Heikki's daughter ").

For instance, there is the Borg Verhildersum in Leens, Abraham's Mustard Museum in Eenrum and many churches, towers, listed heritage farms, terps and protected village settings.

For Abraham's portion is in heaven, and yours is on earth, for you have selected here, become enamored of the dwelling place of your blemish.

For Abraham's portion is in heaven, and yours is on earth, for you have selected here, ( and ) become enamored of the dwelling place of your blemish.

For example, in the Milgram experiment, researchers wanted to determine the willingness of participants to obey authority figures despite their personal conscientious objections.

For example, a student or a senior consumer will have a different willingness to pay than an average consumer, where the reservation price is presumably lower because of budget constraints.

For example, the willingness to defend oneself and others, or property from injury may benefit society at large.

For example, Prof. Jack Balkin has averred that neither the original understanding nor the original intent of the 14th Amendment is compatible with the result implicitly reached by the Originalist Justices Thomas and Scalia in their willingness to join Chief Justice Rehnquist's concurrence in Bush v. Gore,.

For example, there is evidence that smokers are more willing to do risky jobs than non-smokers, and this greater willingness to accept risk might reduce insurance purchase by smokers.

For the first time, the court referred to historical materials such as the debates of the Constitutional Conventions in order to ascertain the purpose of the section, and the unanimous decision indicated " a willingness to overturn established doctrines and precedents perceived to be no longer working ", a trend which typified the Mason court.

For instance, the historian Daniel C. Peterson, chairman of the LDS apologetics group Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies ( FARMS ) at Brigham Young University, suggested the Tanners ' willingness to debunk false documents regardless of their content was a sign of integrity:

For the facilities in the municipalities with historic minorities on the Walloon-Flemish border, there is still a willingness to consider maintaining them on condition of reciprocity ( that these facilities are also properly implemented in Wallonia ).

For many countries around the world this relative difference has resulted in widespread hostility towards American power and a relative willingness to cooperate with the European Union.

" For a long time afterwards, every time Dixon made an error, he would say, " I'm sorry, Sarah Lee …" Dixon's less-formal atmosphere and willingness to admit his errors on the air endeared him to audiences.

For example, sex, weight, hair, eye, and skin color, personality, mental capabilities, and physical abilities, but also attitudes like motivation or willingness to participate.

Music ( For Robots ) are well known for their diverse, comprehensive musical tastes and willingness to cooperate with the record industry, and only post music with permission of the artist and / or label.

For democratic republics ( and to a somewhat lesser extent for aristocratic republics ), this spring is the love of virtue -- the willingness to put the interests of the community ahead of private interests.

For instance, according to Classical Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic, the Arabic root ( to sacrifice ) can be derived the forms ( he sacrificed ), ( you ( masculine singular ) sacrificed ), ( he slaughtered ), ( he slaughters ), and ( slaughterhouse ).

Adam also presents idolatry, human sacrifice as religious practice: For all their gods there are appointed priests to offer sacrifices for the people.

For calculations of OBP before 1954, or where sacrifice flies are not explicitly listed, the number of sacrifice flies should be assumed to be zero.

For Paul the necessary sacrifice was the death of Jesus: Gentiles who are " Christ's " are, like Israel, descendants of Abraham and " heirs according to the promise ".

" For example, James Madison argued for a constitutional republic with protections for individual liberty over a pure democracy, reasoning that, in a pure democracy, a " common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by a majority of the whole ... and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party ...."

For an elevation offering, one must sacrifice a young bull, a ram and seven lambs who are a year old.

For their sacrifice, many people of Marsala were awarded civil medals.

For example, it is provided that all persons present at a pagan sacrifice may be indicted as if for murder.

For Raeder, the idea that all of the suffering and sacrifice of the Great War, which had affected him personally was all in vain was unthinkable, and he become obsessed with making certain that Germany would one day obtain the " world power status " that the Reichs leaders had sought, but failed to achieve in the Great War.

For example, in 1923 he claimed that we would not sacrifice even the hind leg of a frog to the type of social experiment that the regime was conducting in Russia.

For the Hellenes he is a native of Boeotia, where Phoenician influences were strong ; at Tenedos he was propitiated by the sacrifice of children which seems to point to his identity with Melqart.

For this service, well-off families offered Ceres sacrifice of a pig.

For example, the Luhansk sacrificial site shows evidence of human sacrifice in the Yamna culture.

For example, Tacitus reports Germanic human sacrifice to ( what he interprets as ) Mercury, and to Isis specifically among the Suebians.

For both sides, there can be a trade-off between outs and runs: the offense can sacrifice a batter to advance runners, while the defense may allow a runner to score if the remaining runners can be put out in a double play.

During an annual sacrifice, the emperor would carry these tablets to the north part of the Temple of Heaven, a place called the " Prayer Hall For Good Harvests ", and place them on that throne.

Finzi ’ s choral music includes the popular anthems Lo, the full, final sacrifice and God is gone up as well as unaccompanied partsongs, but he also wrote larger-scale choral works such as For St. Cecilia ( text by Edmund Blunden ), Intimations of Immortality ( William Wordsworth ) and the Christmas scene In terra pax ( Robert Bridges and the Gospel of Luke ), all from the last ten years of his life.

For example, before any meeting could begin, a sacrifice to the gods was made, and a search for divine omens ( the auspices ) was taken.

For example Hippolytus of Rome says in his Commentary on the Song of Songs, " The blessed Isaac became desirous of the anointing and he wished to sacrifice himself for the sake of the world " ( On the Song 2: 15 ).

For offering and austerity, sacrifice and suffering, are equally calculated to appease an offended deity's wrath or win his goodwill.

For the Tupí warriors, even when prisoners, it was a great honor to die valiantly during battle or to display courage during the festivities leading to his sacrifice.

For Ghandhi, competition comes from the ego, and therefore society must be based on mutual love, cooperation and sacrifice for the well-being of humanity.