We live in a time of deconstruction in western societies. People talk regularly about how they are deconstructing religious beliefs or dismantling the patriarchy or tearing down traditional social norms. But what exactly are we building?
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Thank you! This touched my heart. It is a great service to all.
Jordan Peterson is an atheist, don’t let him fool you. He speaks of God as a myth. I think he toes the line because he knows his audience and this video is evidence that it’s working. He uses the bible not as a history, but as fictional stories that can be a framework for living life.
Well done Jake. Jordan is a Latter-Day Saint and doesn't even know it. I wonder if he's done any digging on the validity of the Book of Mormon and the restoration of the church/priesthood?
The fundamental problem of this discussion about transcending hedonism is the presupposition that we already have all human activity correctly categorized as hedonistic or altruistic.
I think as a church and society at large we have more work to do in that area.
Rough Stone Rolling is a decitful book. I liked those quotes mentioned. The book as a whole is to be thrown out in my opinion.
This is off topic but feel a need to get this out.
I am a big fan of Speaker Mike Johnson (Good Baptist) who said the following:
Johnson recounted many nights when he was stirred awake.
“The Lord began to wake me up, through this three-week process, in the middle of night to speak to me,” he said. “Now at the time I assumed the Lord is going to choose a new Moses.” He said God spoke to his heart!
Don't Evangelicals mock us members for converting because of our "feelings" and not by biblical text? Seems like another version of faith vs works.
You are all Jesus!
Jesus says so!
Jesus' most important words are found in the Sermon on the Mount. There and then, speaking not just to believers but to the multitude, Jesus said, "Ye are the light…"
In John 14:20, Jesus said simlar, "On that day you will know that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me, and you are in me as I am in you."
Everyone who will ever read this is as Jesus. You came to Earth from your pre-existence in the Spirit world to put on a body. You are as divinely conceived as He.
And, as He, you go through life making mistakes, for that is how we learn. This is why we don't hear about Jesus from age 12 to 30, as even He was off making mistakes. But the last time we do hear of HIm was at age 12, apparently breaking a commandment by dishonoring His parents.
Yet Jesus did not sin, and we children of God do not sin either. For sin requires full knowledge that what we do is wrong, and when we have full knowledge, we cannot sin, for to have full knowledge is to be a god, and God does not sin.
While this argument is circular, go outside at night to know that we live in a circular world. Everything you see is circular.
Yet our circular world is just as surely a spiral. A spiral as all those circles move through time. We, both individually and collectively, spiral up as we become more as God over time. And, just as surely, we, individually and collectively, spiral down as we become less like God.
The difference between spiral up and spiral down is your choice. The fundamental choice, for all, is to center your life on you, or to center your life on all those around you.
Centered on you, you are indeed the center of your own universe. And you fall, fast, down the center of the spiral of life.
Centered on others, you continue to travel up the spiral, and in fact you can stay on that safe outer edge away from self centeredness, and you will not fall.
In my Church, of Jesus Christ, we call this outer edge of life's great spiral, "the covenant path". On the covenant path we live, move, and have our being in Jesus, for He's Us.
We pull others away from the dangerous self center of the spiral, and teach them to look up and out, to be as Jesus, for we are all as Jesus, particularly you. Are you Jesus? That is how I choose to see each and every one of you. Will you make that same choice?
This is your best work yet, Jacob. Keep learning.
We are on the Way to becoming gods. Some of us are there.
Why would Joseph aim to take Jesus’s duty of establishing Zion?
Terrific.
I wonder if the 30 pieces of silver that Peterson has received has anything to do with certain topics, events and players he avoids discussing..
The Lord tells us in Doctrine and Covenants 88:22, “He who is not able to abide the law of a celestial kingdom cannot abide a celestial glory.” Latter-day Saint scholar Hugh Nibley said, “The main purpose of the Doctrine and Covenants, you will find, is to implement the law of consecration.”
This video deserves to go viral.
Joseph taught Mormonism is the embrace of truth from any source. His wisdom is profound and perhaps we need to be humble in seeing what he offers us vs. us offering him. The vehicle of the church after Joseph has become too worldly in its pursuit of wealth and a monetary kingdom. Joseph was closer to the vision and was blessed with divine personages and was broke.
Jordan Peterson used to be an atheist… look at him now… ❤
I can’t listen to the whole thing, but I heard the first few minutes and that was enough for me. It sounds like Joseph Smith thought he was God. Because Jesus did what he wanted to do Jesus did it he already did it. Why did he have to reinvent the wheel or whatever he was trying to do? It was all about Joseph Smith obviously. Jesus was not like that at all and I think it conflicts frankly. I don’t know much about the Mormons, except that they don’t believe similarly to the Christians. And I think we should listen to Jesus, not Joseph Smith and I mean Jesus in the Christian faith and not changed from a different Bible.
I respect your views and you can be what you want but I thought that I was pretty shocked when you were talking about he wanted to transform this and do this and do that and make this wonderful community and create the Mormon people and she has already did that guys that’s all I can say. If I’m wrong, then forgive me but that’s how I feel. Thank you and God bless you.
Jordan Peterson is searching for truth. Jordan Peterson does not have it clearly yet.
Jordan Peterson is trying to find God. Jordan Peterson is highly intellectual and needs to just chill drop it off to let go and tap into his spirituality within his heart. I’m watching him and he’s getting there. But he’s not fully there yet. People are all searching for the one true God. And actually, Jesus Christ is the one true God, the Trinity, the Son….
Being open to the Holy Spirit is from the heart it’s not from the intellect entirely. Jordan is getting there. Many people are that’s a good thing, so I pray for everybody including me.
God is raising up many prophets to speak to the people during this time of social and moral decline. But even amidst the uncertainty and chaos (which has multiplied during many ages of the world), there is still so much light! In fact, the truly good people of this world shine ever brighter against the dark, cynical backdrop.