Sometimes we hear someone say of someone who used to be pleasant, but then is not anymore: They changed. However, we also read "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow." I might have a counterpoint. In the Old Testament, when the Israelites, God's people, had problems with enemy tribes, God "backed them up." Now when Christians have problems, instead of backing them, He tells them to "count it all joy," and the Bible administers us, the more people mistreat us, the nicer...