Why are we so afraid of tolerance in this world?

Question

If we didnt "win that soul" over to "our way" of living and believing... could we juss except and HONOR their way of believing and Trust God to meet them where they are at? God truly knows the hearts, OH yes even the ones who dont think like us.. so everyone have love and calm down lol, life cannot be an on going crusade... wat cha think?....

Answer 1

There are only few who are making too much of noice to spread hatred. Majority of the people know tolerance. They are people who have no good eduction, they don't know their own religious scriptures. They attack everyone who does not have the same belief.

Answer 2

Let me explain something. Tolerance is in reality compromise; it is a nice way of saying there really is no absolute truth , so you are free to make your own.

Was Jesus being intolerant when he said: " No man gets to the Father except through me" ?? Or was he simply telling the truth?
Think about it!

Answer 3

If you saw someone about to fall off of a cliff, would you say, " Oh don't worry let them be they know what they are doing, they'll be alright"? This is why I preach the message of Jesus but I won't force anyone to believe it, you must make that decision.

Answer 4

its in the Gospel that we should proclaim the truth to all people even to the ends of the earth. also to proclain Jesus publically as He will proclaim us befor the Father.

ask Jesus into your life and be born again by the power of the Gospel (an actual real life event in your real life) if you do this in a prayer sincerely God will answer you! you have to truely seek then God will answer!

Answer 5

We're so afraid of tolerance because everyone wants to be in control. No one wants to be vulnerable or leave their lives at the mercy of someone else.

Sometimes religion and love makes people feel scared, because their hearts, not their minds, are in control.

Answer 6

Cause of religion, and years of brainwashing. Family or friends intimidate your thoughts. Fear of rejection are very motivating when you want to accept someone who might be different on too many levels, but your don't want to get into hot water with the bigots, or ignorant people you also like,love, or have to be around.

Answer 7

I think that it is ALL Christians duty to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with a sin-sick and dying world. The Bible says to know to do good and doth it not is a sin unto you.

So Get to work.

Answer 8

The tyranny of ‘tolerance’
by Jonathan Sarfati

One of the biggest battles we face concerns the way we use words. One of the most glaring examples is the word ‘tolerance’. Not long ago, this meant ‘bearing or putting up with someone or something not especially liked’. However, now the word has been redefined to ‘all values, all beliefs, all lifestyles, all truth claims are equal’.1 Denying this makes a person ‘intolerant’, and thus worthy of contempt.

Where does this leave Christians? Jesus said, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me’ (John 14:6). And the Apostle Peter said, ‘It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead … Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved’ (Acts 4:10–12). The new definition of ‘tolerance’ makes the Christian claims to exclusivity ‘intolerant’, which supposedly justifies much of the anti-Christianity in the media and the education system.

But this argument is glaringly illogical and self-refuting. That is, if these ‘tolerance’ advocates reject Christianity, then they are not treating this belief as ‘equal’. So, in practice, to paraphrase George Orwell in Animal Farm, all beliefs are equal, but some beliefs are more equal than others. The result is extreme intolerance towards Christianity from people who talk so much about tolerating all views. In short, they are intolerant of intolerance, so logically they should be intolerant of themselves!

Even within the church, organizations such as AiG are called ‘intolerant’ for believing that the days of Genesis 1 were normal days. Conversely, many Bible colleges claim to tolerate all views about Genesis and teach them to their students. But what about the view that the grammar of Genesis teaches, unambiguously, that the days were 24-hour days and all other views are wrong?2 No, that would be intolerant!

We should be ready to expose such ‘suicide arguments’,3 as well as anti-Christian arguments where an evolutionary critic has at least as much of a problem. This issue of Creation deals with the ‘distant starlight’ problem by showing that big-bangers have a light-travel problem of their own (see article on pages 48–49).

The hypocrisy of the new tolerance was shown recently at two universities. At Texas Tech University (Lubbock), Michael Dini, professor of biology, said he would not recommend any students for medical school if they did not believe in evolution. Dini’s university rushed to defend him on the grounds of ‘academic freedom’.4

Contrast that with what happened at Sydney University in Australia. A number of top academics signed the following statement in a full-page student newspaper advertisement:

‘On any criteria, Jesus Christ is one of the great figures of history. More than that, his claims to be the Son of God, who has made God known and taken away the sins of the world, bear up under the closest scrutiny. This is our conviction, and we urge every student to thoroughly investigate this unique figure, Jesus’.

This evoked hysteria about religious intolerance and misuse of academic freedom. Some anti-Christian students even raised paranoid fears about discrimination.5 Yet the above statement said nothing of the kind, unlike Dini’s overt intolerance and discrimination—against biblical Christians—which was happily tolerated.

Many Christians have fallen for another form of tolerance trap, i.e. that one should not impose one’s religious views on politics or science. For example, Scientific American published a profile on Francis Collins, the US head of the Human Genome Project (HGP).6 The article praised him as someone who ‘strives to keep his Christianity from interfering with his science and politics’. (He has elsewhere made it clear that he is an evolutionist who calls biblical creation an ‘extreme view’.7) Ph.D. biologist and AiG staff scientist Dr Don Batten has, in Creation magazine, refuted the faulty fact-value distinction that Collins espouses.8

But contrast this with the former head of the HGP, James Watson, and his co-discoverer of the DNA double-helix structure, Francis Crick. They both used the 50th anniversary of their discovery to push their atheistic views. The media had no objection to them mixing their religion with their science and politics! Crick is so desperate to cling to his atheistic ‘faith’ that he even resorts to the idea (exposed as futile on pp. 54–55) that earth life was brought here by aliens; anything to avoid God.

We trust that this magazine will help you to answer common anti-Christian fallacies, and equip you to help others do the same.

Answer 9

I think it is someone has to be right.