have you ever stopped and really thought about the Fruit of the spirit, if you look closely its not too hard to see that that tolerance is not generally encouraged in the Bible. The fruit of the Spirit includes love and kindness, but missing from the list is tolerance. In fact, in reality we aren’t called to tolerance, because we serve an intolerant God.
Lets just look at a couple of examples from the Old Testament:
God didn’t tolerate Adam and Eve’s sin. He didn’t accept their lifestyle choice to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
So he banished them from Eden and left a Cherubim with a flaming sword to guard the entrance so they couldn’t return.
although they were punished for wrong doing they were still Loved and provided for because they repented.
God punished them because they went against his wishes and this is something he does not Tolerate.

Think of Noah and the Flood we cannot forget this is about immense judgment. The flood involved terror, suffering, and death. It was a catastrophic event that only one family survived.
Not really a great example of tolerance! Man was too wicked for him to tolerate so despite his Love for us he executed his punishment.
in 2 Samuel 6-7 we find the following account
6 And when they came to Nachon’s threshing floor, Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook it.
7 And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah, and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.
Uzzah’s attempted to steady the ark of the LORD after an oxen stumbled on the journey back to Israel. When he reached out and touched the ark (an expressly forbidden action), God didn’t say, “Well, his heart was in the right place. I know he was just trying to help.” Uzzah’s instinctive response was met with God’s intense anger, and Uzzah was immediately struck down.
There are many accounts that could be listed but the point is that God. Has never tolerated sin
The message does not soften as we move to the new testament and indeed why should it as we know God is constant in all things
[Matthew 10:12-13]
12 And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house, or city, shake off the dust of your feet for a testimony against them.
13 And, verily, I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.

Both the Old and New Testaments display a God who doesn’t tolerate sin. Yet there is one story in Scripture that demonstrates most clearly the intolerance of God.
It is the story of the cross.
Here is an innocent man—whipped, beaten, nailed to a tree, bearing the sins of the world. Is this the picture of a tolerant God who ignores evil? No, this is a gruesome picture of divine wrath and judgment. The story makes no sense if God is a tolerant God.
The cross demonstrates God’s character in all its complexity. It shows his love, kindness, and mercy united with his justice, holiness, and wrath. It perfectly demonstrates a God who surpasses understanding. The Lord is giving us a glimpse into the immensity of his love for us. The love of God is not a tolerant love. It is much better. It is a redemptive love.
But what about tolerating each other.
Lets start with a couple of definitions.
Tolerance
the ability or willingness to tolerate the existence of opinions or behavior that one dislikes or disagrees with.
Acceptance
the quality or state of being accepted or acceptable
Clearly as humans we cannot smite people as God would so while we may have to tolerate certain things in our lives but we do not have to openly embrace or accept.

We ae indeed told Love thy neighbor but this is an instruction love the spirit it does not mean we have to be accepting of the vessel the spirit is carried in.

On an individual basis the only way to overcome an intolerant God is to follow his Guidance and Repent your sins

we are given a play book if we choose not to use it there will always be a consequence.

 

(All quotes from IV version of scripture)