Was tolerance, love, and harmony his true message or would Jesus have been opposed to multi-culturalism, tolerance, etc.?
Was Jesus a relativist or a multiculturalist? Was he tolerant of everyone or just some folks?
2007-04-26 07:45:20 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes. Now go brush your tooth.
2007-04-26 09:22:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus was not a relativist. He had some pretty specific teachings regarding right and wrong, good and evil, and reward and punishment.
He taught compassion for sinners "Hate the sin, love the sinner". I don't think the concept of "multiculturalism" would have mattered to him much - that's a modern-day secular humanist concept. Things such as multiculturalism and man's culture are things that are *human* in origin, and of *this world*. The KIngdom the Christ preached was not of this world, but rather the Kingdom of Heaven.
While He was compassionate and forgiving towards sinners themselves, He was very intolerant of sin, and things sinful and not of God. "Place your faith and trust in God, not in the things of man." I suppose you could say in an offhand way that it did not matter to Him what nationality you belonged to - you could be saved - His parable about the Good Samaritan for example - a non-Jew actually doing what is right when others passed by and didn't. But yet there is another example with the woman at the well, where He noted that she wasn't one of God's Chosen people, but because of her great faith He helped her anyway - that would suggest that while He considered all people to be eligible for God's salvation, His immediate earthly ministry at that time was to His own people (although His message was ultimately for all men for all time). Later the apostle Paul would expand that earthly ministry to the Gentiles.
2007-04-26 08:05:27 · answer #2 · answered by the phantom 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
He was more than tolerant of everyone... He was just as loving, wise, as His heavenly Father but admitted that without His Father who sent him (which make two people right there no matter how the empire of false religions want to cut it) he could do nothing... so the fact that the Father is altogether love,wisdom, power and justice... He remains the most powerful of all of His other creations, including Christ or Michael or anyone else mankind could ever imagine of replacing Him with; and that Jesus wasn't tolerant of... as he said over and over that worship belonged to his Father and no one else... Now that he gave his perfect life for us, it is only natural that it made him the intermediary between us and his Father... so we pray all things in his name but when it comes to being tolerant of all folks? They love us so much that as long as there's life, as far as they are both concerned, there is hope and then some; as they made it quite clear, Father and son both, that there would be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous... right after or soon after Armageddon... we are all created equal and while we were yet sinners, Jesus accepted to come down and die for us so that we would one day have the promised life that will allow us to really rejoice in all of what it is reallmy meant to be... with no pain, no sorrow, no illnesses, no tears... and even death itself will be one day done away with... Revelation 21: 3-4... Thank you!
2007-04-26 08:30:31 · answer #3 · answered by Teri 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Different religions make mutually exclusive claims, and the relativist is unable to logically reconcile outright contradictions. For example, the bible makes the claim that “it is appointed unto men once to die” -Hebrews 9:27..while some eastern religions teach reincarnation. So, do we die once, or many times? Both teachings cannot be true. The relativist essentially redefines truth in order to create a paradoxical world where multiple, contradictory “truths” can co-exist.
Even when disputing over doctrines, a Christian should exercise restraint and show respect. It is one thing to disagree with a position; it is quite another to disparage a person. We must hold fast to the Truth while showing compassion to those who question Truth. Like Jesus, we must be full of grace and truth.
2007-04-26 07:51:51 · answer #4 · answered by Silver 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Was He not showing tolerance right up to the end and nailed
to the Cross . Did not the whole world reject Him and put Him
to Death ! . How much tolerance do you need to be shown ?
2007-04-26 07:56:50 · answer #5 · answered by S.O.T.C. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was not tolerant of SIN he was about forgiveness and loving your enemies..He was angered to when he turned over the table of the money changers in the House of Worship..
Jesus never said okay you have sinned try not to do it so often.
We do not worship a pablim thumb sucking deity
2007-04-26 07:50:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
I think He had a problem with hypocritcs but I also think He was far more tolerant than many of His present day followers seem to be. For example I think He could cope with the fact that I am Pagan but I know lots of Christians who can't.
2007-04-26 08:00:52 · answer #7 · answered by hedgewitch18 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Yes, he taught universal love and forgiveness. If people don't follow it, that doesn't mean he taught it any less.
You can't be political and spiritual at the same time. Sacred is sacred, politics is profane. Mixing the two is like pooping on a dinner plate.
Politics, when you get down to it is all about who gets what or at least whose opinion is bowed down to. That's selfish. Spiritual implies unselfishness.
2007-04-26 07:51:29 · answer #8 · answered by FooManChu 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
He talked with people that his people never talked to because they were what they were. He sent his followers out into the world to reach all peoples everywhere. He sounds pretty open to me.
JoMo
2007-04-26 07:50:40 · answer #9 · answered by JoMo Rising 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Jesus teaches love which encompasses all.
2007-04-26 07:48:51 · answer #10 · answered by St. Mike 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋