Tolerance

     An issue I've been thinking of for a while is the topic of tolerance, like when it comes to stuff such as the gay rights movement.  It is so sad for me to see how the propaganda from that has made its way into how Christians think and act, especially among those in my age range.  It seems I see items of the propaganda daily, on Pintrest and Facebook.  Even friends who I met on a Christian camping trip re-post some of it.  I'm worried about what it is doing to God's message.
     Let's review the most amazing love story ever: God created a perfect world, in which everything was perfect.  He gave this perfect world to Adam and Eve, whom he created, and gave them one rule.  Don't eat from the tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.  When surrounded by a plethora of other perfect foods, it would seem that this rule should be a piece of cake, right?  And it was a rule put in place to protect Adam and Eve.  While that rule was obeyed, they lived in blissfulness, never knowing anything bad.  It was a perfect world.  But it was not to last.  Encouraged by an evil snake, who we know to be Satan, the devil, Eve broke the one rule God had.  She ate the fruit from the forbidden tree, and gave some to Adam as well.  Instantly, they knew what evil was, and knew that they would never be good enough to be in the presence of a perfect God again.  They tried to hide the wrong that they had done, tried to cover it up themselves, but it was no good.  Nothing they could do would ever return them to what life had been before.  The only thing that could rid them of their sin in God's eyes was a blood sacrifice.  God himself performed that first blood sacrifice, and covered their sin for them.  Once more, they could be in the presence of a perfect God.  
     This is the story of Salvation, and although the provision of Salvation has changed some since then (but not a lot), the story of God's love and sacrifice is still there.  And it is still true that God is perfect, and only perfection can be in His presence in Heaven.  There's not a lot of wiggle room on that.  It's pretty ... not tolerant.  Perfection is perfection, and anything less doesn't even begin to cover it.  
     So why are we being so tolerant?  Tolerance isn't what God's message says.  Tolerance isn't the way to His side.  We are doing no one any favors by being so tolerant of sin.  We might think that we don't want to damage the relationship with that person.  How damaged is it going to be when you both are on opposite sides of eternity?  We might think "I want that person to like me." Well guess what- IT'S NOT ABOUT YOU! It's about the welfare of that person's soul.  We have to ask ourselves what are we living for? Kingdom or Comfort?  Tolerance is living for comfort.  Comfort fades away as fast as the blink of an eye.  Perfection through Christ is what will last for eternity.  So why tolerate anything less?