Good post.

But, what is IMHO?

@mpwarren - IMHO ... in my humble opinion

@blonde_apocalypse - Excellent comment ... thank you!!!  While others might say our lack of tolerance condemns us, I would say our tolerance of those who do not believe IN Christ Jesus condemns them.  Disagreement, correction must be done respectfully, effectively, lovingly, patiently, gently and according to the leading of the Holy Spirit ... seems to be what Paul taught Timothy and teaches us.

@blonde_apocalypse - "Tolerance" is the new religion preached by Satan to decieve us into thinking that disagreement is ungodly.  AMEN!

And, what liars it would make of us who have believed in Christ who plainly tells us that He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life and that no one can come to the Father but by Him. if we were to be "tolerant" to the point of telling them the lie that "many roads lead to God"

I would rather that the world think of me as "intolerant" and that, because of my fidelity to Christ, someone would rethink their seeking after false gods.

@bwebbjr - Thanks for this post.

I believe we as Christians need to lern to pick our battles better. Let me clarify and you will understand what I mean. When my daughter was growing up she was sometimes very adament in getting her way, very picky on the foods she ate, she wasn't much of a vegitble eater, she still isn't. Sometimes as parents, if we are wise, we know how to pick our battles carefully. Many times what we feel is important really just isn't that big of a deal, certainly not worth risking the parent child spiritual relationship. If we are always battling our loved ones over insignificant little things we put an unneeded strain on the important relationship that can unfortunately carry well into adulthood. A wise parent picks their battles carefully so when there are battles they carry more meaning to the loved one's life.

We as fellow brothers and sisters in Christ need to also pick our scriptural battles more carefully with each other. We should not so quickly take offense or feel a need to argue over so many things that really wouldn't be there if Christ were walking the earth today with all of us. I think many times we all have much more in common with each other than we think. We are the Christ-followers and we need to all come together being united and let the differences stay where they belong, with the accuser. 

For it is the accuser who divides us to weaken us to seperate us from each other. Our unity is scriptural truth. There is no unity through nonexistant unnsupportive church dogma. We will not find this unity unless we all start reading and meditating on scripture more.     

any god that does not include the name jesus christ is a false god, how about if it includes his spirit?

1 remember one of the greatest acts of evangelism that i ever witnessed was when i saw l.c. paul evangelized 1million africans in one appearance. his message was: "if you muslim, stay muslim, if you are hindu, stay hindu , but come..............come and and ask jesus a living spirit and living savior to come into your heart and touch all the anger, and bitterness, and hatred and heal you and let him show you how much he loves you."

being in christ is having a relationship with a living spirit........a living being. being in christ is being against powers and principalities'. those 2 cannot mix.

what is accomplished by transgressing this thru church doctrine?

the hindu bible says that the world will be saved by a man dying on a tree?

being a believer i consider myself a jew. i went to the synogogue to study hebrew to help me better understand the old testament. i found the spirit of christ all over the synogogue, the thing that was painful was not being able to say his name to acknowledge his presence.

mother teresa told her nuns in her ministries throughout the world not to engage in discussions about religous ideas about christ, but instead...............................to be christ.

being in christ is embracing goodness whereever we find it. as believers we are to be led by the spirit of god.(romans)?

where is there a scripture that says we are to be led by church doctrine?

!thess 5:21" test everything, keep the good" test everything and keep everything that is of christ's spirit.

if all good things come from heaven, then heaven is in the lives of believers as well as non believers. are we to disclaim this goodness in non believers out of church doctrine or embrace it because as believers our battle is against powers and principalities?