Website owner: James Miller
Anyone who has seriously read the entire Bible (Old and New Testaments) knows that the God of the Bible, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, is a stern, strict God. He is not permissive. He has zero tolerance for sin. For those who will turn away from their sin and follow in his ways he is forgiving and loving. But for those who stubbornly walk in sin he is unyielding and intolerant. He could certainly be described by such adjectives as stern, strict, intolerant, uncompromising and narrow-minded. He has called himself a jealous God who permits the worship of no other Gods but him. He laid down a set of rules for the ancient Israelites that were to be followed strictly with very severe penalties for breaking them (usually the penalty of death). He is a God who expects absolute obedience and will accept nothing other. It ought to be expected that anyone who loves such a God as this and is committed to a life of obedience to him will himself be stern, strict, uncompromising and intolerant. Why? Because that person, as a true child of God, will have the same attitudes, values and outlooks as this God he serves. He is like him in spirit. If the attitude of God on a particular practice is that it is sin and completely unacceptable then the attitude of his disciple will be the same. He carries the same attitude on it as God. Thus if a follower of this God finds himself abused and called intolerant because of his uncompromising attitudes toward certain sins this abuse is not just abuse of him, it is also abuse of the God he serves. Dec 1996
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