Speaking Boldly

I am a woman.

And yesterday, stood firm ground in regards to my faith. The Christian faith - the belief in the one true God in Heaven and of his son Jesus Christ who died on the cross. I did this because I am told to be bold and speak out for God.

I am told that God will give me that which to speak, I am just to open my mouth. In this case, I used my fingers to type that which my brain would have told my mouth to speak.

I was angered initially to read this outright "nice" attack on another believers thoughts about Heaven as a response to an afterlife and about death. That believing in Heaven was a myth and hallucination.

However, I slowed my anger by putting together a response that contained accurate verses from the Bible to confront the attack such as:
1Th 4:14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
1Th 4:15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive [and] remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
 1Th 4:16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
 1Th 4:17 Then we which are alive [and] remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
1Th 4:18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

When in these situations, I no longer will take an idle stance. We are to be bold. We have God at our back.

If you are faced with a similar situation, do not be mean and ugly but state the truth, give them verses used in the correct context. Don't get into a battle of wills. State the truth and move on or if the conversation is a baited one such as this where the person was "hooded" and did not reveal their identity, shake off the very dust from your feet.