Interesting word. Tolerate, tolerance, basically means to allow the beliefs of another without interfering, to recognize and respect others beliefs without sharing them. This is where it gets interesting if you are a Christian. The effort to build a mosque near ground zero in New York is being met with a great deal of negativity. It is the wrong building,at the wrong time, in the wrong place. However, the Main Stream Media tells us that we must be tolerant.
I would like to ask, where is the media's great concern for tolerance when the attacks are against Christians and Christianity. Where was the main stream media when the Creation Museum was being planned and attacked, being built and attacked, opened and attacked, and to this day, there are almost constant attacks by the media. Check out this blog by Ken Ham, President of Answers in Genesis.
http://blogs.answersingenesis.org/blogs/ken-ham/2010/08/23/crowds-keep-pouring-in/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+KenHam+%28Around+the+World+with+Ken+Ham%29
The battle is never ending and we as Christians need to stand fast and defend what we believe. We need to remember as the Apostles did, who it is we serve;
Acts 4:18 - 20 And they called them and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus. But Peter and John answered and said to them, "Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you more than to God, you judge. "For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard."(NKJV) Italics mine
This is why it is so important to read and understand the Word of God. So that we can also speak the things which we have read and understand. This starts with a belief and understanding of Genesis and the Creation message. Why do we need Jesus? Because of what happened in Genesis chapters 1 through 11.
The world demands that we tolerate the very things that oppose Christ and the Word of God. And like the Apostles, we must not bend to their demands. We need to stand on the Word of God using the power of God to share His message with the world. Matthew chapter 28: 18 through 20 Then Jesus came and spoke to them saying, "All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, "teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the earth" Amen (NKJV)
The message is that we are to be about God's business. Don't let the world threaten you or scare you or belittle you into compromising the Word of God with the word of man. There is only one infallible word and that is the Word of God!
