Since the Bible quotes Jesus with dont throw stones if you have sins, does that mean you are to tolerate sin?

Question

Difference between tolerance and acceptance.

I tolerate Fundamentalists but I don't accept them.

Answer 1

I answered the definition question before I found this one. I accept everyone but might not accept their beliefs. I tolerate everyone but I might not like them. I'm lost. I had some lady tell me I am stupid today and that I live in a bubble of non-existing sunshine. Not word for word but nicer than what was actually said. I don't accept her opinion of me as truth but I will tolerate her right to have that opinion. When I am done here I am going to go look up both of those words to see how I misuse them.
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Answer 2

Jesus forgive sins. In fact, He died for your sins, He was buried and took your sins away and He rose again the third for your justification. We should not tolerate sin, Jesus didn't tolerate sin but forgave sin. When He comes back the second time He is come to judge and make war against all that have not trusted in what He did for them. Romans 6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? Romans 6:2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? Revelation 19:11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. The fact that you don't accept fundamentalist but tolerate them is your personal right but be sure you accept the Lord Jesus Christ and what He did for you on the cross. Romans 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Answer 3

No, it doesn't mean to tolerate sin. It just simply means do not judge someone. Don't accuse someone of sinning, if you are not sin free yourself. It is easy to point our finger at someone, but if we would realize when we point one finger at someone, there are three others pointing right back at us. Jesus told the men who were about to stone the woman caught in adultery to cast the first stone if you are without sin, but he also told the woman to go and sin no more. We shouldn't tolerate sin, but we should not be judgmental either, because none of us are perfect. We are all just sinners saved by grace.

Answer 4

We are to tolerate sin that we may help save the sinner, but never to accept the sin.

Answer 5

To me this means not to judge others because I know I've not been perfect/blameless/sinless.
Since we (the whole human race) have been given (by GOD) a free will, we can not make or force people to think and act the way we choose to or should do. We therefore respect their decision to choose (whatever the act or ommission) even though we do not accept/respect/tolerate the choice/act/sin. GOD never forces us to do anything, and since we ought to reflect HIM we should not force other. Again GOD never accepts/respects/tolerates the act/ommission, he allows us to choose for ourselves. (Bearing in mind that there are consequences for everything we do, say or think.)
We are not to judge or we will be judged in the very same way.

Answer 6

The Pharisees (those who were the lawyers of their day - remember that the Old Testament laws were their civil laws as well as their spiritual laws) brought the woman caught in adultery to Jesus for the express purpose of entrapping Him. According to the law of Moses, those caught in adultery were to be stoned to death. But you couldn't just claim that, there had to be witnesses (plural - never just one). Since they were under Roman occupation, they were not allowed to carry out any of their own death sentences (which is why they had to entrap Jesus to have the Romans kill Him). They brought the woman to Him, but they were already out of line in that they failed to bring the man.

If He said to stone her, they would have taken Him straight to the Romans for violating Roman law. If He said not to stone her, they would have claimed that He was refuting the law of Moses.

I don't know what He wrote in the sand, but I believe that His purpose was to avoid their question. They took an issue that was about a woman and the state of her sin before God, and used it as a means of entrapping Him. His assertion “He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first.” calls their attention to themselves and to her. Her life was nothing more to them than a means to an end. Suddenly, they had to face that. From the oldest to the youngest, they realize that they are all guilty, and walk away.

Jesus doesn't stone her Himself, not because of sin on His part, but because He wasn't a witness to her sin (and therefore not eligible to convict or condemn her), and also because His purpose was to save such as herself from the guilt and death sentence of sin.

He did not say adultery was okay. He said, “Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more.”

He neither accepted/tolerated her sin nor did He condemn her.

Answer 7

First of all in a highly complex and corrupt society,then and now,that too with total ignorance about the so called heavenly abode of GOD, the word SIN is to be understood not intellectually but through your conscience,if at all you can derive and define the `CONCIOUS' plane.

Answer 8

It basically means that you are to live your own life and not concern yourself wiith the way others live their own lives.

However, Christ also speaks of "righteous anger" that one has a moral responsibility to exercise when a 3rd party is being wronged or injured. For example, if you know a man is cheating on his wife, then you have a moral duty to confront him about it. If, on the other hand, he just likes to masturbate a lot, then it's not your business at all.

Answer 9

No, he meant that we should not condemn and forgive the individual because we too are in need of forgiveness. He made the distinction between the person and the act. He then turned to her and said "Go and sin no more".

Answer 10

a) the situation refered to was literal, the people were going to bash her to death with stones. He went through the law of jealousies as he obviously refered to the levitical statute for a woman about whom there was a question of adultery.

b) I suppose that people, in order not to be hypocrites, have to consider their own sin state, before accusing another: unless of course, they are ignorant hypocrites, then they'll do just about anything.