{"id":27,"date":"2016-12-19T21:47:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T21:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/felixculpa\/2016\/12\/truth-and-tolerance.html"},"modified":"2016-12-19T21:47:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T21:47:00","slug":"truth-and-tolerance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/felixculpa\/2016\/12\/truth-and-tolerance.html","title":{"rendered":"Truth and Tolerance"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><span style='background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: \"arial\" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;'>In seeking to become a nation of tolerance, we have only succeeded in becoming a nation of gross intolerance. This is the result of living in a society convinced that truth is subjective. Truth, we\u2019ve been taught, is whatever we want it to be. And as believers of such nonsense, we have all, every one of us, gone our own way. But Truth, Jesus said, is found only in Himself and His teachings.\u00a0<\/span><br><span style='background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: \"arial\" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;'><br><\/span><span style='background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: \"arial\" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;'>\u201cI <i>am<\/i> the Truth,\u201d He said.\u00a0<\/span><br><span style='background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: \"arial\" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;'><br><\/span><span style='background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: \"arial\" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;'>Until we return to understanding of what truth is and where it\u2019s found, disunity will continue.<\/span><br><br style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;\"><span style='background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: \"arial\" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;'>Laws against murdering, stealing, abuse of all kinds, homosexuality, same-sex marriage, etc. are all based off of absolute, Biblical truth. Do we REALLY want to rid our country of absolute truth and insist on our own \u201ctruth\u201d? Or do we want to turn back, realizing the \u201cheart of man is only evil continually\u201d, and therefore in need of the Ten Commandments and more pointedly, the forgiveness of the God who authored them?<\/span><br><br style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;\"><span style='background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: \"arial\" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;'>How do we all get on the same proverbial page? We get on the same literal pages of the Bible and act according to absolute truth. That won\u2019t happen of course, until the return of Christ. Until then, there will always be some level of discord. For now, it\u2019s good enough to know that Christ is building His church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it. And it\u2019s a comfort to know that one day, all political, social, and religious upheaval will cease.<\/span><br><br style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;\"><span style='background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: \"arial\" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;'>Maranatha!! Even so, Lord Jesus, come quickly!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In seeking to become a nation of tolerance, we have only succeeded in becoming a nation of gross intolerance. This is the result of living in a society convinced that truth is subjective. Truth, we\u2019ve been taught, is whatever we want it to be. 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