Well, he’s not a Christian, for he doesn’t claim to be. He also exposes ignorance of the gospel message as well as the message of acts and the Epistles. He’s impressive when he understands the subject at hand, though.
almost Kierkegaardian in that statement....and there’s much merit to be found in that line of reasoning
Okay, I'll discuss. Would you have posted this if Jordan Peterson had said that Shintoism is "as sane as people can get?" And does it really matter what Jordan Peterson thinks?
Poor boy doesn’t understand the Gospel. Perhaps he should try reading it sometime.
As a Christian I absolutely LOVE the question. Just saying he hates the question tells me a lot about him.
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.
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He is almost saying faith without works is dead.
But he emphasizes works. And they will say Lord, Lord, we did ... so and so in your name ...
Meanwhile, I am tickled that he talks about God and the Bible, which to me, is evidence that they are real and powerful. Else why would the world’s smartest man even consider them, much less discuss them?
He and Leonard Cohen and Charles Krauthammer went to the same University... and all of them came away with insights that are one off from the world... but ‘one off’ in a wonderful way...
His opinion about spiritual things is as valid as anyone else’s.
And I’m sure there are a lot who would disagree.
So who’s right?
He doesn’t practice Gods teaching of let your “yes be yes” and “no be no”. A Christian would answer YES to the question of believing in God.
*snicker*
I’ll be sure to tell my mother.
I respect his intelligence, and accept he has a following.
I follow Christ rather than any philosopher, and - since I have been studying the Word since five, and chose at that age to emulate Solomon by pursuing wisdom rather than wealth, and have served in ministry - I frankly trust my own philosophy more than Petersen’s.
I do not begrudge others their preoccupation with him, but I realized long ago that if I wanted to read Christian philosophy or commentary by others, I vastly preferred Chesterton, Lewis, or Tolkien to any of the more highly touted philosophers and theologians.
(Tolkien’s is generally more implicit, but he does explicate it in his essay, Tree and Leaf.)
“To believe, in a Christian sense, means that you live it out fully and that’s an that’s an unbearable task in some sense.”
Yes, unbearable, but there is Peterson’s (and many Christians’) lack of understanding of the gospel.
The gospel has a second clause beyond forgiveness, namely the gift of the Holy Spirit. The God I believe in bears the weight of my life, and I live in His strength. By his Spirit I am being conformed to the age of Christ.
We are very fortunate to have such a great man in our midst.
The Truth is unbearable but
for the Lord, dare we carry it.
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Hopefully the entire gamut of self professed "Christians" on this site will watch it and re-evaluate their own actions and words in relation to their own belief.........
The dude’s dancing around the now old circumstance of recognizing the value and importance of religion, but not believing the fundamental underpinnings.
Peterson is a student and admirer of Carl Yung.
By Yung’s later years, he had moved from an aetheist or agnostic, to a belief in a higher power.
Prager a Jew, has described himself, as an ethical monotheist.
I’ll be loking for this conversatioon.
Christianity yes! Catholicism, no.
A person searching.