It's more than just tolerating other people. And it's basically a pretty poisonous attitude. And if it pleases me to do so, I can always suspend my sense of toleration, and do whatever I please again. Toleration doesn't deal with the rights of other people. It doesn't say that they are also loved by God.
Toleration is a whim.
But the Bible says that the rights and lives and well-being of other people are not optional. They're what God commands. As I said at the beginning this morning, this is simply an introduction. I don't have any specific action in mind for us this morning. This is simply a reminder, of something we already know, which we will be discussing more this coming month. umble mind.