Why are many Christians so intolerant of other religions and spiritual paths?
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A Christian wife is encouraged to stay with a heathen husband because her faith is something that umbrellas the whole family. A sinner in the family would probably be the one that is forgiven 70 x 7 rather than any stranger with a story about belonging to the same congregation. That is the family for a Christian be it a man, woman and child where faith is in the same Gospel as Paul taught in that Gentiles became a 'child of a Jewish teacher' as far as salvation was concerned.
Neither Greek nor Jew would certainly apply to the personal qualities of having a relationship with God with the addition that the rules for the new earth would apply to when a person can be judged on matters of sin. That would mean you would find no Gentile under 20 that is in sin that requires repenting to have it lifted. The list of things that is given that required repenting doesn't seem to be any different than the ones given to the Gentiles that read the first edition of Revelation.
1Pe:4:6-19:
For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead,
that they might be judged according to men in the flesh,
but live according to God in the spirit.
But the end of all things is at hand:
be ye therefore sober,
and watch unto prayer.
And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves:
for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
Use hospitality one to another without grudging.
As every man hath received the gift,
even so minister the same one to another,
as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
If any man speak,
let him speak as the oracles of God;
if any man minister,
let him do it as of the ability which God giveth:
that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ,
to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever.
Amen.
Beloved,
think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you,
as though some strange thing happened unto you:
But rejoice,
inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings;
that,
when his glory shall be revealed,
ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
If ye be reproached for the name of Christ,
happy are ye;
for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you:
on their part he is evil spoken of,
but on your part he is glorified.
But let none of you suffer as a murderer,
or as a thief,
or as an evildoer,
or as a busybody in other men's matters.
Yet if any man suffer as a Christian,
let him not be ashamed;
but let him glorify God on this behalf.
For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God:
and if it first begin at us,
what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
And if the righteous scarcely be saved,
where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing,
as unto a faithful Creator.
Re:9:20-21:
And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands,
that they should not worship devils,
and idols of gold,
and silver,
and brass,
and stone,
and of wood:
which neither can see,
nor hear,
nor walk:
Neither repented they of their murders,
nor of their sorceries,
nor of their fornication,
nor of their thefts.
Phill Collins - Another day in paradise - YouTube
Neither Greek nor Jew would certainly apply to the personal qualities of having a relationship with God with the addition that the rules for the new earth would apply to when a person can be judged on matters of sin. That would mean you would find no Gentile under 20 that is in sin that requires repenting to have it lifted. The list of things that is given that required repenting doesn't seem to be any different than the ones given to the Gentiles that read the first edition of Revelation.
1Pe:4:6-19:
For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead,
that they might be judged according to men in the flesh,
but live according to God in the spirit.
But the end of all things is at hand:
be ye therefore sober,
and watch unto prayer.
And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves:
for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
Use hospitality one to another without grudging.
As every man hath received the gift,
even so minister the same one to another,
as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
If any man speak,
let him speak as the oracles of God;
if any man minister,
let him do it as of the ability which God giveth:
that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ,
to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever.
Amen.
Beloved,
think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you,
as though some strange thing happened unto you:
But rejoice,
inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings;
that,
when his glory shall be revealed,
ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
If ye be reproached for the name of Christ,
happy are ye;
for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you:
on their part he is evil spoken of,
but on your part he is glorified.
But let none of you suffer as a murderer,
or as a thief,
or as an evildoer,
or as a busybody in other men's matters.
Yet if any man suffer as a Christian,
let him not be ashamed;
but let him glorify God on this behalf.
For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God:
and if it first begin at us,
what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
And if the righteous scarcely be saved,
where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing,
as unto a faithful Creator.
Re:9:20-21:
And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands,
that they should not worship devils,
and idols of gold,
and silver,
and brass,
and stone,
and of wood:
which neither can see,
nor hear,
nor walk:
Neither repented they of their murders,
nor of their sorceries,
nor of their fornication,
nor of their thefts.
Phill Collins - Another day in paradise - YouTube
Social experiments have proven that subconciously this is not the case. The various Asch experiments prove that a person alone will conform to even the absurd to avoid standing out.
I hadn't meant to imply only Christians do this. I hadn't meant to imply only ideological thinking in this either. It's a very broad spectrum of human traits that fall under this.
I love the part about rabid Atheists.
3.40 if you cannot wait.
Bill Maher Takes On PC Nazis on the Left - Liberals Can Be Obnoxious Too! - YouTube
3.40 if you cannot wait.
Bill Maher Takes On PC Nazis on the Left - Liberals Can Be Obnoxious Too! - YouTube
Actually self defensive would be putting it mildly .
I am directly attacking the extent to what their faith is in their god.
If they have a complete faith in their god or belief system then what ever anyone else is into should not cause any emotional repsonse or any show of intolerance.
For they would know something that no one else does.
There is a reason no one can define God but can define the various gods.
Once you define God then it becomes just another god. Whether that god is real or just a figment of one's imagination and understanding is another matter.
Which does not concern me in the least.
For God is beyond human comprehension and senses . What we are left with can only be described as something experienced.
That would well be a very personal one and not up to disclosure or contrivance.
so anyone upset with another person's experience is just someone with not a shred of experience.
lol........
Not necessarily. There's no denying that people do have numinous and transcendental experiences, for instance, but one can certainly take issue with how people understand their meaning and origin.
It does if they're proselytizing. And it does if we're simply talking about our experiences and our understanding of them, which happens a lot in my life, that's often the source of the best conversations.
I am trying to concern myself with why exactly the intolerance is being acted out.
If one has some experience, then it is personal.
Lets for arguments sake sake ,admit something was experienced. Then how do you get upset with someone who has not expierenced the same thing, or similar.
You can't get upset with someone's understanding of God for all the masters agree you cannot know God. All of them including Buddha , never commented on what God is or the Nature of God.
How inane is it to get upset and show intolerance with someone else who can't know? No one knows and are taught that they cannot know.
So like I said anyone showing intolerance ,is someone who has not experienced anything. For, if you have has some experience, then to you it is valid.
Why would you show intolerance for you now know, and you know ,it is personal.
So the intolerant don't know and are showing their intolerance out of frustration and not knowing.
They do not even have faith , for they are intiolerant of something that cannot be known.
LOL!
No, it doesn't. You have the choice of not listening.
Again, their personal experience with God does not effect you in any way. Not unless YOU insert yourself into it, like you do on thses forums.
I've said it before, and it still holds. Practice any religion makes y'all feel all special and holy. Just keep it off my land, out of my face, and out of the civil laws.
That last one is the refutation of "effects (sic) you in no way."
