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How far we can take the teaching of tolerance

A rather long bit of discussion, drawn from Freelance Christianity , on the need to be careful who we preach tolerance to.  I'm sure I've covered this theme before, but I don't think we can repeat it too often!



👀👀👀 Absolution ("formal release from guilt, obligation, or punishment") denies the lessons learned from making errors. We get stronger only when we tear our muscle tissues without fully separating our muscle tissue. Jesus did not lose His scars after resurrection. We do not lose our scars from carrying our cross as His students (disciples). We grow from them. There is no magic (slight of hand erasing what has happened) to living life as God has done without beginning, and will survive without end. Children of God from Man have a beginning, as Christ did as the Son of Man, who are offered no end with one, and only one, condition. They must hate human traditions of ignorance, me and mine before all others, so much to accept only one Father, one Teacher and one Instructor (Luke 14:25-27, Matthew 23:8-12, Matthew 12:49-50). The law that all of God is subject to eternally is summed up in everything do to others as you would have others do to you. Freedom of religion practiced by disciples of Christ means having as much empathy, tolerance and forgiveness for those of each religion as we would want each religion to have as much empathy, tolerance and forgiveness for our religion (or nation, or sexual orientation, or gender, or heritage, or ...).

ALL scripture, all the Law and all the Prophets, chronicled forever sharing God’s love, is completely summed up according to the will of God, the Father, as in everything do first to all others, of Godkind and Mankind, as each and all of us would have all others do to us. That is the fruit of love for God, Man, neighbor, sister, brother, and enemy as we each love ourselves in our flesh and in our spirit. This is simply and clearly chronicled in Matthew 7:12, 22:37-40, and Luke 10:27-28. Continued theological scripture study is fruitless if the effort is meant to define an immoral act considered to be a transgression against divine law, ruling Man and God (sin) especially if done so to judge another before yourself (Matthew 7:3).



    • Jennifer A. Nolan 👀👀👀In addition to what Vance Morgan has pointed out, would you please tell us what to do in the face of evil with which George Floyd's family and the Pittsburgh Jewish community have been confronted? This high-minded magnanimity of yours hasn't served these people too well.

        • 👀👀👀 Jennifer A. Nolan
        • You are right, of course, and I meant this not as a "sermon" to minorities, but as a sermon to people like me, of white privilege, seeking absolution in appeals to tolerance, without really understanding the plight of our neighbors.

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