I am sure I have posted about this before either as a post or in different posts, but we are preached by the secular world to be tolerant of others. However, is that really what God says or wants?
The answer in my opinion is no. He says to love one another, but no where does he preach tolerance. in fact, Jesus was never tolerant of sinners or the Pharisees and Sadducees. What Jesus did was to demonstrate love to all, and yes even the Pharisees and Sadducees.
He would typically teach to people in parables, but when He spoke to several one on one, He would typically tell them to go and sin no more in a loving manner. No where did He say, I will be tolerant of your behavior.
Before I go on, we have to define what is tolerance:
a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward those whose opinions, beliefs, practices, racial or ethnic origins, etc., differ from one’s own.
or
The ability or willingness to tolerate the existence of opinions or behaviour that one dislikes or disagrees with.
Realize, Jesus was doing God’s will. If He were tolerant of sinners, then He would have never said anything to anyone. However, that was not the case.
If I were tolerant of others as the world wants, then I would never introduce them to Christ. Lets face, most people believe there is God or supreme being, but Jesus the do not want to hear about.
Our job as Christians is not to tolerate what others do, but to love them enough to introduce them to Christ through our actions and words. The world will hate us as Jesus has mentioned, but it is not about the world but about doing God’s will. No matter what the world does, our job is to love them even when we do not want too, ask them what hurts even when we may not care, and tell / show them who Christ is even if we do not want too.