Dr. Jordan Peterson
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Dr. Jordan Peterson
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“One would hope that Christians would show sufficient discernment to see the errors in Peterson’s presentations. But the size of his audience indicates there are probably many who would otherwise call themselves evangelical but have been duped by his mendacity.
To them, we give a warning: Peterson’s method of interpreting Scripture according to his pre-existing beliefs, and his preaching of our ability to choose our own ‘noble aim’, is serpentine, not Christian.
Even if pop culture wants to view Peterson as some sort of conservative voice of religious reason, he is actually promoting a worldview which is diametrically opposed to Christianity.”
The premisis is wrong.
The question should be is Genesis myth or history
[“The poor fundamentalists, they’re trying to cling”]
Hahahahaha. Obama said similar things about bitter clingers.
Weep not for us, but for yourself.
We’ll be just fine.
Peterson still struggles with faith and reason. But he is an ally in many other respects particularly on our current social condition. No need to be dismissive because of those disagreements.
No good reason that it can’t be history.
I’m not a fundamentalist so don’t go for the literal interpretation, but I would point out that the Bibile has been around a lot longer than CNN.
I have no problem following his lectures. They are enlightening, I find.
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Genesis clearly falls within the genre of historical narrative.
Moses penned Genesis and he was not a first hand witness...The Creator told Moses what to pen... Peterson is clueless as to Whom he is questioning.... and Peterson has NO clue what Genesis actually declares. It is the beginning of the history of those that were elected to be the blood line to Christ ... and those that of the devil attempted to disrupt... without success.
I’ve just recently discovered Dr. Peterson. I would not take everything he says as gospel (no irony intended). However, I find him a thoughtful man and I would not dismiss him lightly.
I think he places too much emphasis on evolution. I accept evolution even if I don’t like it, but it is used to describe too much and it cannot be falsified, which I think weakens it as a theory.
Dr. Peterson is our modern day C.S. Lewis, the leading Christian apologist of our generation.
If this topic is of interest to anyone I recommend “So Noted”, The Genesis Commentary by Dr. Henry Morris the father of the modern creationist movement. He also co-wrote “The Genesis Flood”, a total rebuke of the last 200 years of uniformitarianism philosophy that invaded all the institutions of higher learning.
Why be a Christian if you open up the Bible and on the first first sentence say “God Lied.”?