There are things that Christians should be tolerant about. There are things that Christians should NOT be tolerant about.
To illustrate this point, I am reminded of something I once read about manufacturing tolerance. In the 1980's, Dodge came out with their Caravan, which started the whole "minivan" line of vehicles by every auto manufacturer. They were wildly popular, and to keep up with manufacturing demands, the Chrysler Corporation contracted the building of transmissions to the Japanese, via the Mitsubishi company. The next year when the new model of minivans hit the showroom floors, it seemed that a "random" number of transmissions had fatal problems within 200 miles. Upon further investigation, it turned out to be the ones made in USA that failed. When they checked with the Japanese engineers to troubleshoot why the Japanese made transmissions lasted so much longer. It turns out that when they got the blueprints, and specs for the transmissions, the parts had a 0.1% tolerance specified. The Japanese engineers re-tooled all of the machines that make the parts, and built the new transmissions with 0.01% tolerance. In other words, if a part was meant to line up with 1mm variance one way or another in the US, it was made with 0.1mm variance in Japan. This tighter (LOWER) tolerance reduced friction by 90% and almost ELIMINATED the failure problem during the break in period. The US engineers re-tooled their
Today's Political Correctness seems to be demanding a higher tolerance of everyone, especially Protestant Born Again Christians. They demand tolerance of everything. They demand that we be tolerant of homosexual marriage, despite the fact that it cheapens traditional Christian Marriage. They demand that we should be tolerant of Muslims, Hindus, Mormons, or any other cult, despite the fact that you can be fired from your job as a schoolteacher for having a Bible on your desk or a Jesus Saves pin on your lapel. The same crowd of people who demand that we cannot scrutinize a radical Muslim from taking a plane ride, because it might offend someone, also demands that we cannot have a prayer over the PA system in a public school football game. They demand that we allow two homosexual men to be allowed to adopt a baby, but they have problems with a school voucher system that allows free trade and true competition in the education marketplace.
Truth is truth. Jesus said that you shall seek the truth, and the truth will set you free. All Truth is God's Truth is the title of a book written by Christian philosopher Arthur F. Holmes. It teaches some very important philosophies. Namely, that anything that is proved to be true cannot contradict anything else that is true. There is NO SCIENTIFIC PROVEN FINDING that can ever contradict the truths that are in the Bible. This cannot happen. Logic dictates that if A=A and A=B and B<>C then A<>C.
There are other concepts about truth that we cannot ignore. 99% truth is a lie. 99% clean is dirty. If you are 99% right, you are still wrong. You can have a DNA 90% similar to a chimpanzee and NOT be a chimpanzee.
Scientists have been trying for years to discredit God from creation. The more we learn about ourselves from a scientific standpoint the more scientists are convinced of the idea of Intelligent Design. We are far too complex to be here by accident. You cannot shake a box of watch parts and end up with a watch. You certainly wouldn't end up with one that is wound up and running and keeping perfect time. Even if you opened the box and carefully put the parts together, and wound and set the watch, you STILL wouldn't have a watch that could reproduce itself. Even a box full of watches left alone with romantic music wouldn't reproduce.
If I was the first man to explore the moon and I found a wristwatch, I don't think that I would assume that it evolved from the rocks. I would have to draw the conclusion that it was designed and manufactured by SOMEONE.
Its funny to me that we have to be tolerant of everything but the truth.
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