Why is Donna, a Christian Apologetic who has dedicated her life to Christ, lamenting that tolerance is being taught, if apparently Christ taught tolerance as a virtue?
2007-04-26 07:28:17 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
This is a joke right....
2007-04-26 07:35:12 · answer #1 · answered by ﺸÐïåMóñdÐôññåﺸ 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If tolerance means what society says it is today - that you not only allow others to differ with you on beliefs but also that you embrace their beliefs - then absolutely not!! Not all beliefs are based in absolute truth or reality!
Someone may believe that 2+2= 9. If I believe 2+2=4 am I being 'intolerant' to say 2+2 only = 4? In today's world culture, yes! Much of the world is not into truth; it's into what it wants to believe!
I can be tolerant of others while intolerant to lies!!
2007-04-26 14:35:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus was reflecting the loving-kindness of his Holy Father, YHWH God in Matthew 15: 22-28--when the Phoenician woman asked Christ for healing--because he was sent out to the Israelites and not the other nations.
The commission to teach all other nations came from God to the Christian Apostle Peter--Acts 10.
Jesus, also knowing his Father is long-suffering towards ALL,
is also, out of love and honor for his Father, tolerant.
Romans 9: 22. " If now, God, although having the will to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, TOLERATED with MUCH long-suffering vessels of wrath (wicked ones and those not loving Him as their God) made fit for destruction."
2007-04-26 14:57:16 · answer #3 · answered by avaddohn-Apollyon 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because Christ didn't teach tolerance as a virtue.
2007-04-26 14:31:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes Jesus taught tolerance...the Good Samaritan, the Tax Collector, the Woman at the Well...etc.
don't panic
2007-04-26 14:31:28 · answer #5 · answered by Fran 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jesus taught compassion for sinners and those who have wronged God - he didn't say that it didn't matter what you believed, or how you expressed it. That's a modern "New Age" feelgood belief. Which actually borrows from the religious syncretism of the Roman pagans of the time, who worshipped multiple gods in their Pantheon. What Jesus preached was something entirely different:
"Jesus answered, 'I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.' " - John 14:6
"But whoever disowns me before men, I will disown him before my Father in heaven.
Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn
" a man against his father,
a daughter against her mother,
a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law—
"Anyone who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and anyone who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
Matthew 10:33-39
2007-04-26 14:47:53 · answer #6 · answered by the phantom 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A person should make sure that his beliefs can be supported by the Scriptures, for there is only one true faith. Ephesians 4:5 confirms this, mentioning “one Lord, one faith, one baptism.” Jesus did not agree with the modern, relaxed view that there are many roads, many religions, all leading to salvation. Instead, he said: “Narrow is the gate and cramped the road leading off into life, and few are the ones finding it.”
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2007-04-26 14:38:58 · answer #7 · answered by lynn 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No Jesus was not tolerant at all.
Jesus told the Phrases they were ruling by man's law and not God's law then he rebuked them for doing it.
He was very intolerant to non Godly ways or rules(laws).
At the same time he was very loving and forgiving to people. He helped people, fed them, made them well, forgave, and blessed them.
2007-04-26 14:43:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Peter had noticed a man who was healing the sick and doing other good works. This man was not a Jew or "Christ Follower" so Peter suggested to Jesus that they go attack him. Jesus turned to Peter and gently said, "Calm yourself Peter. I consider him to be doing the works of my Father."
Jesus appears to have been tolerant. You tell me. Are all of his followers? You will know them by their fruits and intolerance is not one of them.
2007-04-26 14:45:50 · answer #9 · answered by Shawn B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess that would depend on your definition of tolerance. I'm not sure that Jesus was as "tolerant" as you are painting him, although for the time he was quite progressive.
2007-04-26 14:31:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus had no tolerance for sin or false religious teaching...but much tolerance for sinners and false teachers, all of whom He loved.
2007-04-26 14:34:44 · answer #11 · answered by whitehorse456 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋