Posted on 05/29/2019 12:37:41 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
May 27, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — Speaking with one of the best-known conservative Jews, Dennis Prager, at the PragerU summit last week, world-famous psychologist Jordan Peterson spoke of God and his views of faith. After speaking about his dislike for the question ‘Do you believe in God?’ Peterson said, “I think that Catholicism — that's as sane as people can get.”
Peterson has often been asked about his faith, if he believes in God, and he said the question has always troubled him. He promised a podcast on the matter since he has given his dislike for the question much thought.
He explained, “Who would have the audacity to claim that they believed in God if they examined the way they lived? Who would dare say that?”
“To believe, in a Christian sense,” he added, “means that you live it out fully and that's an that's an unbearable task in some sense.”
Then in one long drawn-out, rapid-fire thought, the type that has enthralled his millions of fans, he laid out extemporaneously the vision of a believer in God:
“To be able to accept the structure of existence, the suffering that goes along with it and the disappointment and the betrayal, and to nonetheless act properly; to aim at the good with all your heart; to dispense with the malevolence and your desire for destruction and revenge and all of that; and to face things courageously and to tell the truth to speak the truth and to act it out, that's what it means to believe -- that's what it means -- it doesn't mean to state it, it means to act it out. And, unless you act it out you should be very careful about claiming it. And so, I've never been comfortable saying anything other than I try to act as if God exists because God only knows what you'd be if you truly believed.”
See the full exchange of Peterson and Prager here.
“I know I’m in a state of grace. I hope always to be.”
Candidly, I doubt any human knows the depth of their sin - omission as well as commission.
Either Christ paid for it all or none.
Either you have given up on personal merit, works, rituals, etc., or you have not.
Either you have entrusted yourself to Him alone for salvation, or you are trusting something else.
As a result, you are either saved, or you are not.
I know Him, know my own sin, accepted His sacrifice alone, exercised saving faith in Him, am saved, am sealed, am the recipient of His imputed righteousness, and am saved.
I wish you the same.
A state of probationary grace sucks.
Trent Horn from catholicanswers doesn't seem to think so.
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/are-protestants-the-real-catholic-christians
You seem to be saying you know you are saved...which I'm glad to hear, but some of your fellow Roman Catholics have called that the sin of presumption....which would seem to place you out of a state of grace.
+1
She is also Mary, since she is the Mother of the Messiah.
The woman is also portrayed as representing the People Of Israel,corresponding to the OT poetic metaphor or personification of the nation, "Daughter Zion" or "Daughter of Jerusalem". The image of the sun, the moon and the stars is taken from Gen. 37:9-10 and represents Jacob (Israel), Rachel and their sons.
This is something I have so very much appreciated in the Bible, the brilliant use of multivalent types and images.
I don't think you want to "see" Mary in Revelation.
If so....it's going to wipe out the Immaculate Conception and a lot of Roman Catholic thought on her being an "ever" virgin.
I repeat my conclusion, think about how joyful your life could be if you had the confidence that you were held by the hands of God and NOTHING can pluck you out of them. Think about how much more fulfilling your life could be if you started living for God out of love and gratitude for His amazing grace and not because you fear going to hell.
I hope you do. I’ll pray for you.
In the Revelation, John numbered an army of 200,000,000 (two hundred million). He also stated a number so large no man could number it comes OUT OF THE SEVEN YEAR TRIBULATION into Heaven. Now you see why I keep telling Catholics who exhibit a ‘not yet saved’ attitude toward The RISEN Lord Christ to ‘not take the mark of the beast. These same Catholics have placed faith in their priests that they believe feed to them the real flesh and blood of the crucified Jesus. The great lie which is coming will be more powerful deception than merely a religion claiming to feed real flesh and blood in a wafer..
Where is what?
And MY grandson just graduated from WP.
Posted to Ft. Benning.
The dogmatically defined verses of Scripture you claim Rome has.
PROTs read the Scripture without being spun by Rome's 'evidence' and come up with totally different answers.
I wonder what the Change Agent is???
Opinions are like; uh; elbows...
Yeah; that’s the ticket!
Remember; I'm a PROT. I can't DO complicated.
Just gimme some simple stuff.
Yes, ET seems to have a; uh; special kind of fixation about the leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
Grace only kicks in when there is sin. If a person were sinless, they would not need God's grace.
Romans 5:20 Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,
If you do activities to *merit* grace, then you are expecting pay, not grace.
Romans 11:6 But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Eternal life in Christ is a FREE GIFT. You do not work to merit a gift. Nor do you work to merit forgiveness. Forgiveness by it's very nature is a gift freely given.
If you have to do something to merit grace, you have just nullified the whole thing and then God becomes indebted to you for the work you did or the activities you performed.
There is NOTHING we as humans can do to get God to love us any more than He already does.
Romans 5:8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:10-11 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
...and nothing we can do to get Him to give us the grace we need.
Throw yourself on the mercy of the court and God WILL save you and keep you saved.
All He wants is our trust and taking Him at His word. He certainly doesn't need us to DO anything for Him.
Have you mixed your metaphors here?
ealgeone posted this in post 77 ...”I’ve yet to see a Roman Catholic do an exegetical breakdown of a section of Scripture.”
And in post 83 you responded with.....”I read that twice, and I had to laugh a second time.”
Now, if you find that funny, why is that? Do you think it’s happened? Cause I don’t ever recall seeing it either and if has been posted, I would like to see it as I am sure ealgeone would.
“The passage refers to the Church (as we are her offspring, defined in the text as “those who keep God’s commandments and bear witness to Jesus” -— that would include all Christians.)
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She is also Mary, since she is the Mother of the Messiah.”
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The passage is about a specific group - Israel.
It is not about the Church.
You have to ignore the rest of the book and the OT to make this about the Church.
Nor is it legitimate to make this about both groups, since God has a different plan for each.
The. Catholic wants so much to make Mary into that which God never did.
In this case, “study to show yourself approved.”
Nor should you.
As long as you continue to believe that Revelation 18 does NOT apply.
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