How Then Should We Behave?

In view of the exclusive view of other religions in scripture, one might wonder how one is to behave towards those of other faiths. In Contending for the Faith, Robert Reymond, Professor of Systematic Theology at Knox Theological Seminary offers some insight. From page 369:

Christians, of course, should normally support legal tolerance toward the other great world religions, that is to say, they should actively support laws that adequately protect the rights of the individual to profess, practice, and propagate his religious views, with due allowance, of course, for the protection of the citizenry from excesses of religious fanaticism that would inflict bodily harm upon others. Christians should also cultivate in themselves and encourage others social tolerance toward the other great faiths of the world, that is to say, they should respect the other great world faiths and seek to understand them and to encourage the same in others toward the Christian faith. But when it come to intellectual tolerance, that is, the cultivation of a mind so broad that it can tolerate every religious view as of equal intellectual validity, without ever detecting anything in any of them to reject, this “is not a virtue; it is the vice of the feebleminded.” (quote from John Stott(1985), The Authentic Christ, Marshalls, 70.)

Good advice, don’t you think?

randy