{"id":7760,"date":"2020-07-27T19:29:49","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T19:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/?p=7760"},"modified":"2022-02-24T17:27:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T17:27:00","slug":"on-being-broadminded-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/?p=7760","title":{"rendered":"On Being Broadminded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Views: 0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">[<strong>Note:\u00a0 <\/strong>This MS is available in larger font on our <strong>Brief Articles 1<\/strong>\u00a0 page.]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\"><em>Broadminded <\/em>connotes an ample tolerance of beliefs and\/or behaviors other than one\u2019s own. Modern philosophers have created a culture that exalts this trait regarding morals and all religions (i.e., apart from those claiming Bible connections!). Is this trait a virtue, or could it be a vice? Let us consider <em>broadmindedness <\/em>in various contexts.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\"><strong>Personal preferences: <\/strong>Such matters involve no right or wrong, but \u201ceveryday\u201d choices (make of car, color of carpet, Coke or Pepsi, et al.). In the home, at work, and in other settings, tolerance of the choices of others is a virtue and contributes to peace and harmony.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\"><strong>Objective facts: <\/strong>Such absolutes as <em>2+2=4 <\/em>or the law of biogenesis are not altered by sincerity of belief or sweetness of personality. Hebrews 3:4 states two objective facts: \u201cFor every house is builded by someone; but he that built all things is God.\u201d Regardless of the field of study, objective facts and incontrovertible evidence leave no room for \u201ctolerance\u201d for honest and rational minds. Broad-mindedness towards all such matters is not a virtue, but a vice.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\"><strong>Moral issues: <\/strong>The merchants of super-tolerance insist on broadmindedness relative to every form of behavior. Fornication, adultery, and homosexual behavior are excused as mere \u201calternate lifestyles.\u201d However, the Word of God identifies them as sins that, if unrepented of and unforgiven, will cause one to be lost forever in Hell (1 Cor. 6:9\u201310). The Holy Spirit does not allow broadmindedness concerning such evils.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\"><strong>Options in religion: <\/strong>The New Testament urges broad-mindedness toward things that are of no spiritual or eternal consequence. In such cases, we have options, and the opinions of others should be valued. The Lord commanded His people to take the Gospel into all the world (Mark 16:15), but the mode of travel or of communication are inconsequential. In hundreds of such matters, narrow-mindedness is a vice, and broad-mindedness is manifestly a virtue.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\"><strong>Obligations in religion: <\/strong>The New Testament also sets forth doctrines and practices that are <strong>not <\/strong>optional and from which we <strong>may not <\/strong>rightly vary. For example, Mark 16:15 authorizes the preaching of only one religious message\u2014the Gospel (as the New Testament reveals it and defines it). To receive the salvation that it alone provides (Rom. 1:16), Jesus also said (Mark 16:16) that one must believe it and be baptized to be saved. Neither men nor angels have any right to be broadminded concerning this statement or such things as the Deity of Jesus, God-pleasing worship, His plan of salvation, Jesus&#8217; one church, or numerous other issues (Gal. 1:6\u20139).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">[<strong>Note: <\/strong>I wrote this article for and it appeared in the <em>Denton Record-Chronicle, <\/em>Denton, TX, September 14, 2012.]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\"><strong>Attribution: <\/strong>From <em>TheScripturecache.com<\/em>, owned and administered by Dub McClish.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Views: 0[Note:\u00a0 This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1\u00a0 page.] Broadminded connotes an ample tolerance of beliefs and\/or behaviors other than one\u2019s own. Modern philosophers have created a culture that exalts this trait regarding morals and all religions (i.e., apart&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"easywp-readmore\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/?p=7760\">Continue Reading&#8230;<span class=\"easywp-sr-only\">  On Being Broadminded<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,310,33,201,72,329,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baptism","category-bible-2","category-moral-issues","category-religion","category-salvation","category-tolerance","category-truth","wpcat-37-id","wpcat-310-id","wpcat-33-id","wpcat-201-id","wpcat-72-id","wpcat-329-id","wpcat-112-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7760"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19206,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7760\/revisions\/19206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}