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 ).

Furthermore, China's first permanent standing navy was assembled and provided an admiral's office at Dinghai in 1132, under the reign of Emperor Renzong of Song.

Furthermore, he tried to make Catholic property fall to the state, but when this caused too much protest from the Eastern Roman Emperor, he chose to banish a number of Catholics to a faraway province instead.

Furthermore both Emperor Go-Ichijō and Crown Prince Atsunaga were his grandsons.

Furthermore, the display of wealth by the upper ranks of the church, which contrasted with the common expectation of poverty and strict adherence to principles, was used by the Papacy's enemies in raising charges against the popes: King Philippe of France employed the strategy, as did Emperor Louis IV.

Furthermore, the Jin Emperor Āizōng ( 哀宗 ) won a succession struggle against his brother and then quickly ended the war and went back to the capital.

Furthermore, it is generally agreed upon that the founding of the dominant Chinese race, the Han 漢 race, was the result of the " Yellow Emperor " Huangdi 黃帝, who unified a federation of tribes to drive the other tribes out of central China as it was known then ( today's northwestern China ), and several imperial dynasties existed since the time of Huang Di and before the time of Ying Zheng, the last of which integral dynasties, the Zhou 周 dynasty, disintegrated and formed the " Warring Nations " which were principalities of various sizes roughly based on the feudal kingdoms and duchies as ascribed under the Zhou dynasty political system.

Furthermore, the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I had promised not to interfere with the French plans, on condition that the Spanish Netherlands would not be attacked.

Furthermore, Napoleon's mount throughout the battle was named Marengo and further carried the Emperor in the Battle of Austerlitz, Battle of Jena-Auerstedt, Battle of Wagram, and Battle of Waterloo.

Furthermore, through the Samguk Sagi, Kim Busik praised a castellan of Goguryeo who defeated The Emperor Taizong of Tang at the Siege of Ansi Fortress and judged the Goguryeo castellan a hero.

Furthermore on Bebelplatz the Berlin State Opera ( No. 7 ), colloquially called Lindenoper, St. Hedwig's Cathedral and the Altes Palais ( No. 9 ), favoured residence of Emperor Wilhelm I ; in the north the main building of the Humboldt University ( No. 6 ) and House I of the Berlin State Library ( No. 8 ).

Furthermore, Emperor Ai was highly controlled by his grandmother Consort Fu ( consort of his grandfather Emperor Yuan ), who improperly demanded the title of Grand Empress Dowager -- even though she had never been an empress previously and therefore did not properly have that title, and this led to the unprecedented and unrepeated situation of four women possessing empress dowager titles at the same time — Empress Wang ( Emperor Cheng's mother and Emperor Yuan's wife ), Empress Zhao Feiyan ( Emperor Cheng's wife ), Consort Fu, and Consort Ding ( Emperor Ai's mother ).

Furthermore it is believed that in the year 1711, the Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah I and Sa Nay Min Gyi the ruler of Burma also exchanged missionaries, who were transported across the sea by two Mughal ships the Alhari and the Selamat.

Furthermore, the story about Veranzio's jump does not explain what might have motivated a former chancellor to the Holy Roman Emperor and diplomat, at the age of 65 and only a few days before his death, to jump from the Campanile.

Furthermore, the law of the excluded middle requires that one of the following propositions, for example, must be true: either " the current Emperor of Germany is gray " or " it is not the case that the current Emperor of Germany is gray ".

Furthermore, to support his claim as successor of the Emperor of the Weströmisches Reich, he obtained a large number of antiques – for example, pillars to be used for the construction of the church.

Furthermore, during this period Arbogast had become increasingly violent towards Valentinian II and his councilors, so much so, in fact, that Arbogast is described as killing the councilor Harmonius, a friend of the Emperor who had been accused of taking bribes, at the feet of Valentinian II in 391 CE.

Furthermore, he could go on repeating the maneuver endlessly: every time he went in the bedroom, he could drop a slip or a brassiere, or maybe a girdle, next to his shorts.

Furthermore, even the highly trained law clerk who was a part of Jack's total make-up could not understand how the principle could ever be codified.

Furthermore, there is no proposed mechanism of action by which the positions and motions of stars and planets could affect people and events on Earth that does not contradict well understood, basic aspects of biology and physics.

Furthermore, raising such a large army had denuded Athens of defenders, and thus any secondary attack in the Athenian rear would cut the army off from the city ; and any direct attack on the city could not be defended against.

Furthermore the crossbow could hold the tension for a long time, whereas even the strongest longbowman could only hold a drawn bow for so long.

Furthermore, it was suggested that Onesimus could have been the first to compile the letters of Paul, including the letter that gave him his own freedom as an expression of gratitude.

Furthermore, transcripts made from the same gene may not have the same exon structure, since parts of the mRNA could be removed by the process of alternative splicing.

Furthermore, there would be serious concerns among the public in built up urban areas, that malfunctioning or incorrectly operated flying cars could crash into houses, shopping districts or pedestrian areas, severely damaging buildings or killing civilians.

Furthermore, engineering costs could potentially decrease because less time would be spent on designing wiring installations, late changes in an aircraft's design would be easier to manage, etc.

Furthermore, he was unhappy that he had to simplify his music to ensure that Gilbert's words could be heard.

Furthermore, the increased " county business " could not be handled by the Quarter Sessions, nor was it appropriate to do so.

Furthermore, Thompson argued, the C compiler itself could be modified to automatically generate the rogue code, to make detecting the modification even harder.

Furthermore, externalism could be limited to cognition, or it could address broader issues of consciousness.

Furthermore, a client could easily mount a denial-of-service attack on a server by sending a request and never attempting to receive the reply.

Furthermore, since internal class conflict had been overcome, workers could now be duly rewarded for their qualifications and technical skills without contravening Marxism-Leninism.

Furthermore, Gerbert instructed Constantine that the north pole could be measured with the upper and lower sighting tubes, the Arctic Circle through another tube, the Tropic of Cancer through another tube, the equator through another tube, and the Tropic of Capricorn through another tube.

Furthermore it is doubtful that either insurgent group could develop the international transportation and logistics infrastructure necessary to establish independent drug distribution in the United States or Europe … DEA believes that the insurgents never will be major players in Colombia's drug trade.

Furthermore Denby Transport asserted that two Eco-Links would replace three standard articulated lorries while if limited to the current UK weight limit of 44 tonnes, it was claimed the Eco-Link would reduce carbon emissions by 16 per cent, and could still halve the number of trips needed for the same amount of cargo carried in conventional lorries.

Furthermore, knowledge of that function or end-purpose is essential because any other aitia, or explanations one could offer for the organ, would be tremendously informed given the telos.

Furthermore, since Tantra dissolved the dichotomy of spiritual versus mundane, practitioners could entail every aspect of their daily lives into their spiritual growth process, seeking to realize the transcendent in the immanent.

Furthermore, they noted that quill knobs are almost never found in flightless bird species today, and that their presence in Velociraptor ( presumed to have been flightless due to its relatively large size and short forelimbs ) is evidence that the ancestors of dromaeosaurids could fly, making Velociraptor and other large members of this family secondarily flightless, though it is possible the large wing feathers inferred in the ancestors of Velociraptor had a purpose other than flight.

Furthermore, one can find a neighborhood of Q in which the difference function is monotone, for since it is analytic it can have only a finite number of extrema in any interval.

Furthermore, the thin film dynodes appear to have a natural diameter limitation wherever a mesh support cannot be tolerated.

Furthermore, Dr. Calderone says, a certain number of docile, retiring men always have been around.

Furthermore, all of the controversial agreements have been announced after Sarkisian ’ s frequent trips to Moscow, without prior public discussion.

Furthermore, Carnegie appears to have misunderstood or intentionally misrepresented some of Herbert Spencer's principal arguments.

Furthermore, the bread-making, dessert, pastry, and dairy industries have achieved considerable development in this region.

Furthermore, a number of ~ omics based on analytical chemistry have become important areas in modern biology.

Furthermore, John Murray believed that Disraeli had caricatured him and abused his confidence – an accusation denied at the time, and by the official biography, although subsequent biographers ( notably Blake ) have sided with Murray.

Furthermore, for every a ∈ A we have that a ∧-a = 0 ∈ I and then a ∈ I or-a ∈ I for every a ∈ A, if I is prime.

Furthermore, great apes are not found in the fossil record in the Americas, and no Bigfoot remains have ever been found.

Furthermore, individual bishops, or the Council of Bishops as a whole, often serve a prophetic role, making statements on important social issues and setting forth a vision for the denomination, though they have no legislative authority of their own.

Furthermore, as the contestants did not have heavy leather gloves and wristwraps to protect their hands, a certain amount of restraint was required when striking the head.

Furthermore, not all of his captains had followed his orders to attach cables to their neighbour's bow and stern, which would have prevented such a manoeuvre.

:" Furthermore we have been told that there are many more islands in that sea, one of which is called the Great Estland ( Aestland ) -- And this island is told to be quite close to the Woman Land ( terrae feminarum ), which is not far ( non longe ) away from Birka of the Swedes.

Furthermore, some tramways have steeper gradients and vertical, as well as horizontal, curves, which means tram bogies often need to pivot on the horizontal axis, as well.

Furthermore, the large elliptical galaxy and the edge-on spiral galaxy, both of which have active nuclei, are connected by a stream of stars and dust, indicating that they too are interacting.

Furthermore, while Neuromancer < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s narrator may have had an unusual " voice " for science fiction, much older examples can be found: Gibson's narrative voice, for example, resembles that of an updated Raymond Chandler, as in his novel The Big Sleep ( 1939 ).

Furthermore, Cornell's system pumps significantly less warm water back into the lake than others further north which have been operating for decades, including the coal-fired power plant on the eastern shore.

Furthermore, correct power calibration of the laser in the writer, as well as correct timing of the laser pulses, stable disc speed, and so on., is critical to not only the immediate readability but the longevity of the recorded disc, so for archiving it is important to have not only a high quality disc but a high quality writer.

Furthermore, " labour migrants who maintain ( to some degree ) emotional and social ties with a homeland " have also been described as diasporas.

Furthermore, due to the intense nature of the experience, DMT is generally considered to have no addiction potential.

Furthermore, as a result of this injury, he suffered from a growth on his face that biographers and art historians have defined as a " benign tumour " or " exostosis ".

Furthermore, the pirate mechanics have also changed: the pirate moves through the middle of the map in a fixed path every turn, and attacks the owner of any nearby settlements.

Furthermore, they generally have positive enthalpies of formation and there is little mechanistic hindrance to internal molecular rearrangement to yield the more thermodynamically stable ( more strongly bonded ) decomposition products.