We are back with John Piper and a question we get a lot is what should Christians do with

the false religious beliefs of non-Christians?

We cannot command false religious systems.

So should Christians be tolerant of others' religious beliefs and what does this tolerance

look like?

So explain for us, Pastor John, what is Christian tolerance in the face of false religious

systems?

First, let's distinguish between the old tolerance and the new tolerance, which is a

form of intolerance.

And I'm going to point people to Don Carson's book on tolerance, a new form of intolerance.

But the old tolerance is the kind I want to defend.

The answer is going to be yes, yes, yes.

Be tolerant of each other's differing religious and other views.

The old tolerance is the view that there is such a thing as objective truth and objective

right and wrong and objective beauty and ugliness.

And whether any of us can claim to know it, it does exist out there.

And we should all want to find it and believe it and live it.

That was the assumption of the old tolerance.

And therefore, one idea or belief would be better than another idea or belief if it was

more true, more right, more beautiful.

And therefore, the reason people held their ideas or their beliefs because they were convinced

that their belief was more true, more right, more beautiful.

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