We all have our reasons for being tolerant, Linda. The question is, are we being tolerant because we care about people (perhaps tough love) or are we being tolerant because we are giving in to our need or desire to follow, or perhaps some other (self-serving) emotion.

Could this thread be leading to an adjuration for me to know myself? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

I've been doing that for a long time now Linda.

It takes a great deal of self control to watch people slander the truth that you have so diligently studied, nevertheless, the role each person plays in this life is up to them.

If a person chooses never to learn the truth about Christ and instead decides to slander His name and twist the well-established truth about Him, it is an evil thing they do. (Would you want someone to slander you?)

Have you not slandered Christ by sharing your uneducated opinion about Him?

Perhaps not, so long as qualify your opinion as being from someone who has never studied the Bible—which is the authoritative book about Christ.

If someone instead decides to actually read the Bible and explore its claims, they may gain an understanding about what life is all about, complete with love and massive evidence; the experience seasoned with a profoundly positive change in their life.

Been there and done that, Linda.

In the end, God will judge all.

Now, you choose.


A word to the wise--->

[color:"darkred"]"And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six."[/color]

—Revelation 13:16-18


The Bar Code and the Mark of the Beast
(Interesting Reading)