Posted on 03/05/2016 1:33:18 PM PST by truthfinder9
Yes, I’ll take Jesus at His Word.
It is perfectly fine to say you belief Christ is the only way to God.
It is also perfectly fine to declare that your belief is based on faith.
Hebrews 11:1 - Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
First, it is incumbent upon the speaker to define “tolerance”. The objective, always, of Christianity in the modern era, is to gently, through example and appeals to both emotion and logic, that acceptance of Christ as Savior is a fully VOLUNTARY act. But with the understanding that if the spark of belief is not lighted in the breast of the potential convert, that is not necessarily a fatal flaw of the unconvinced, as the inspiration may occur at a later time. Or sometimes, not at all.
Forcible conversion to the particular set of religious beliefs, as practiced by certain other cults claiming supernatural authority, up to and including slaughter of those unconverted, would seem to defeat the whole purpose of the drive to proselytize, by creating a class of “believers” that only remained in the religion because of fear of terrible punishment at the hands of not a divine power, but other very savage and unforgiving men. And the dedication to that set of beliefs has to be proven over and over by complying with demands that truly horrible acts must be committed to assure these same savage and unforgiving men that your faith is “pure”.
I just do not see an upside for that kind of enforced “faith”, which is certainly not “tolerant”, and would never practice reciprocity with the Christian version of tolerance.
Intolerance relates to how you treat others who are different than you, because of those differences (including faith). It has nothing to do with anything you claim to be true, or any other beliefs that you have, Christianity or otherwise.
By definition, if you believe something to be true, then anyone who belief different than yours must not be true, therefore ONLY your belief is true. So I don’t see how anyone can really believe in Christianity if they don’t also believe that it is the only religion that is true. Otherwise, it’s not really a belief, but more of a culture, or a preference, or a fondness for a particular religion, which you affiliate with based on habit or familiarity, but not based on belief.
I always tell those who ask this question to take it up with the person who first said it, He wrote the book, I didn’t I just follow the Truth.
Claim? Of course we’re being tolerant. We’re not killing those who disagree.
... Unlike another religion...
Deuteronomy 4:19 and Malachi 1:11
Is it intolerant to claim that only Global Warming is true?
Our society seems much more intolerant than in the 50s and 60s I remember.
People called each other intolerant. But nobody used government grants to choose winners and losers in the debate.
We now lack the distinction between intolerant individfuals and intolerant government. By suppressing the intolerance of those not in control of the government, the government now is the intolerant power.
If one believes any religion, one implicitly believes it is true and the others are false. This is a silly grouse.
One would think so, but Pope Francis apparently thinks both the Catholic and Jewish religions are true and both have means to eternal salvation.
Why isn’t this ever asked about Islam?
As opposed to Jews that say it?
As opposed to Muslims that say it?
As opposed to Hindus that say it?
The reason this country was founded on religious freedom is that religion is faith which is thought. Who among us should be allowed to dictate the thoughts of others?
Two people are born in a field at the exact same time. At what point in their lives does one become the master of the other?
No, and it is not intolerant to claim that Catholicism is the only true form of Christianity....both statements are true.
bkmk
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