Faithful Writers

If you were trying to fabricate a clean, respectable Messiah story, you would never choose pagan astrologers as your first witnesses. And yet that’s precisely the detail Matthew keeps, which makes it one of the strongest arguments that the story wasn’t invented.

Sin can not and should not be tolerated; if God tolerated sin of any kind, He would have to tolerate all sin. If He did that, then good would no longer exist, sin would take over, and our understanding of good and bad would cease to exist completely and become a constant state of grey.