It just hit me this afternoon and of course it will sound crazy to many people but I feel obliged to write about it. I'd send an email but I can't see well enough to do the research to find that kind of information any more. I can't read much and websites are usually a confusing chaoes of images and unreadable print.
JORDAN PETERSON: After doing a few posts on you and your Bible series it hit me that what you wree doing is actually blasphemy. I'm slow on the uptake, I didn't catch that for a while. but whenever a person adds to or subtracts from the word of God we are warned that plagues will be added to our lives. That part is what just hit me about an hour ago because I know you've been sick for some time.
I'm glad you are better, I missed your voice on the internet like so many others deid, but now that I've seen some of your Bible series I'm worried that there is a cause and effect hjere that you wouldn't suspect and I even missed it myhself until now.
If you really want to live as if God exists, as you've said, please take this seriously. God does not let us get away with this kind of sin. You are actually defending the Bible in many ways, but since you are refusing to take it as written and imposing your own interpretations on it, treating the actual meaning as myth and offering metaphorical meanings instead, you are tampering with the actual word of God and that is very dangerous. I just hope that since you do it in ignorance you may be forgiven.
I wiswh I couodld write this to you personally. I hope that somehow someone who sees it might get it to you and that you would take it seriously. I know that is not too likely with people who believe in evolution and have dismissed the Bible as the actual revelation of God irbelievers know it to be, but if you have a concern about your own wellbeing, PLEASE TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY. God is not mocked.
Then I started wondering if Chrisopher Hitchens' untimely death had a similar cause. He actively ridiculed the Bible and its central teaching of Christ's death in the place of sinners.
I don't know the timing of Peterson's Bible series but I rthink it preceded his sickness in a way that is suggestie r of a connection.
Monday, June 20, 2022
It's rReally Modernity Not the Ancient World, tthat's Build on Myth Rather than Reality.
Enough of Jordan Peterson for now. He's got some interesting and useful ideas for how to live one's life that are apparently benefiting many people, but making the Bible represent those ideas is a sort of blasphemy. he's attracted to the Bible, that's obvious, he likes some of its teachings very much and doesn't even have to doublethink some of them, such as leaving father and mother and cleaving to spouse. That's practical wisdom for life in his thinking. But the Kingdom of God becomes your highest ideal, as does God himself, the highest good, the ennobling aim and so on.
That's what happens when modernity has stolen your ability to believe the bible as written, which so many of the thinkers of the nineteenth century did to us. You either just throw it out and don't give it a second thought or like Peterson who appreciates it as an ancient text containing wisdom even for today however pincomplete or however he sees that, then you just double think it and put your own best concepts in its place.
So they think we believers are just reifying -- making read -- what is really only mythical or an abstranction. So unsophsticated are we. Funny, it's really evolution that reifies what is really nothing but an imaginative construct. The whole thing is a mental construction that has no solid grounding in reality. but people get convinced of that idea and must throw out the Bible as a consequence. It really isn't that hard, at least once you see it, to recognize the utter nonsense of evolution, but the myth holds them spellboudn. ,br>
So a real Godis too much for them now.
Later: It really IS blasphemy, it's been nagging at me. You don't take God's word and substitute your own earthly wisdom in place of its truth, no matter how good your wisdom is in its right context. The Bible has p has plenty of wisdom for our current situation, the woke insanity, the identy politics insanity, the COVID nightmare insanity, the evolution insanity, but it's to be taken on its own terms, you don't make it mean something else.
That's what happens when modernity has stolen your ability to believe the bible as written, which so many of the thinkers of the nineteenth century did to us. You either just throw it out and don't give it a second thought or like Peterson who appreciates it as an ancient text containing wisdom even for today however pincomplete or however he sees that, then you just double think it and put your own best concepts in its place.
So they think we believers are just reifying -- making read -- what is really only mythical or an abstranction. So unsophsticated are we. Funny, it's really evolution that reifies what is really nothing but an imaginative construct. The whole thing is a mental construction that has no solid grounding in reality. but people get convinced of that idea and must throw out the Bible as a consequence. It really isn't that hard, at least once you see it, to recognize the utter nonsense of evolution, but the myth holds them spellboudn. ,br>
So a real Godis too much for them now.
Later: It really IS blasphemy, it's been nagging at me. You don't take God's word and substitute your own earthly wisdom in place of its truth, no matter how good your wisdom is in its right context. The Bible has p has plenty of wisdom for our current situation, the woke insanity, the identy politics insanity, the COVID nightmare insanity, the evolution insanity, but it's to be taken on its own terms, you don't make it mean something else.
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