Posted on 03/14/2021 6:47:28 AM PDT by Kaslin
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Jordan Peterson calls himself Jungian, which is maybe a little more than a atheist. However, I believe in the existence of a knowing all-powerful God, because of DNA. How can any non-believer explain DNA? One of the tiniest strands of matter yet the most complex? And that everybody has their own individual strand of DNA that is unique to each person and nobody else has it?
I saw his interview with Cathy Newman, and I’ve been a fan ever since.
He’s sort of our modern equivalent of C. S. Lewis, but without the overt Christian label. Regarding Christianity, he seems to share my opinion about it before I gave my life to Christ.
I was cleaning up the ditch around our property (the “Adopt a highway” people are taking time off because of the Rona flu). I found a dead Coyote as well as a black bag full of coyote bones. They were clean as a whistle. I actually kept the backbone vertebre because they are all attached and they fit together like a jigsaw puzzle, and yet have freedom of movement.
It is a design marvel with every part of it designed for a function. And people think that just throwing a lot of years at evolution allows it to accidentally be designed.
When you consider that the design and function of a single cell and its place in the environment to keep it alive is more complex than a modern Porsche, it seems kinda silly to think it just accidentally came about.
And then, like you said, there’s DNA.
There was a debate on Theism between Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson. Jordan is obviously, at the very least, a “friend” of theists. Sam could not compete, IMO.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK5M1BrQeG8
Part 1 of the long (really long) version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jey_CzIOfYE
I sometimes wonder if Peterson could be a modern age “Saul” (who became Paul).
Step one, become famous for blistering intelligence and perspective. We’re just waiting for step two: Add God.
>>Peterson warns while we know when the right goes too far, we do not know when the left has reached extremes.
The Left has no guardrails. This has been proven over and over again for over 200 years, since the French Revolution.
There Are No Guardrails On The Left
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3929301/posts
I always had a feeling that Jordan Peterson would find his way back to Christ. I think he’s there, or almost there.
Thanks for posting.
Right after my first baby was born at 9 pounds 13 ounces, a total miracle, I exclaimed to the midwives in a northern California hospital, “you just have to believe in God after witnessing the birth of a perfect baby, who nine months earlier was a dividing egg”?
JP is an acquired taste and I don’t have it. Philosophically he is all over the place.
In the end, it's the Lord having to come into someone's life and change it...just like Paul.
Maoism and Stalinism isn’t too far?
Exactly right. That is why it is a fool’s errand to continue arguing ad-nausium with the same people. It is what is meant (IMO) by “Shake the dust off your feet.”.
Fact is, we all tend to get bogged down in such discussions because it can be fun to argue, partly because there is a possibility (though slim) that you can “win”.
I’ve actually stopped arguing with atheists and agnostics on some site by saying pretty much exactly that. They get seriously offended sometimes, but that can be a good thing. They’ll think about it and come to Jesus, if they are a lost sheep. If they are a goat, they won’t, which means I’m wasting my time and offending them is irrelevant.
Either way, there are lots of lost sheep out there that need the good news. I was one of them at one time.
Why get that deep into it? Just watch himshred the alert every chance he gets and enjoy it.
Shred the Left**
Good post, thanks.
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His last interview I saw he was sort of a Deist. He acknowledged God as helping him through his withdrawal crisis.
He speaks highly of Christ but does not seem to know Him in a saving way. He is well familiar with scripture but tends to approach it as significant, excellent, but ultimately non authoritative.
Listening to him with a firm biblical standpoint, I have enjoyed his work. I think he is a remarkable man. But I won’t follow him blindly.
Excellent article. Thanks for posting.
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