Jordan Peterson makes sense, some of the time

JMJ
April 08, 2018
   
    I am on page 182 on Jordan Peterson’s 12 RULES FOR LIFE. I decided that I would read every word of his 370 page book before I wrote a word of criticism or praise.. Sorry I can’t stand it. I promise truly to myself and to the world that I will  finish the book but , like one of his favourite yin and yang symbols nonsense and sense flows in and out of book in stark contrast to each other.

    Some of his favourite words are myth, symbolic, millions or billions of years et c et c. But the one sentence that gagged me up to the point I had to grab my aging DELL was “ in the great and fundamental myths of ancient Egypt , the god Horus, often regarded as a precursor to Christ .......

    I do not know about Horus but I do know about Christ. Not only that I know Christ.
In the Baltimore Catechism The first question is Who made you?A. God made you. It proceeds Q. Why did God make you? A...to know, love and serve Him and to be happy with Him in Heaven  forever.”
   
    Jordon’s problems start with not knowing the first few pages of the Catechism, or of Genesis or of the first pages of the Gospel of John.  It’s like he arrived late in class and only got the fancy stuff that makes you sound erudite. He knows the actual words of the Bible very well . He even quotes the Book of Wisdom and Protestants don’t even know that one exists. But he can’t read without surfing. It’s like he says “ if I start really reading this Book and concentrate on It I’ll start really Believing in It. Then I’ll start talking as if Jesus Christ is real. Then my persona as an academic and intellectual will be lost and gone forever. Even my friends and allies will insist that I’ve gone too far.

    Peterson knows the importance and significance of Genesis but because he is thoroughly entrenched in the Religion of Evolution he can’t take it straight. Everything to him has to be a myth that evolved through millions of years , that is a compilation of an amorphous committee spread throughout eons of continents, cultures and vertical time zones.

    Then poof, Jordon starts making sense. When he’s faced with “ a two year old monster “ (his words) he gets it right.  In short if there is a power struggle the adult better win.  He even has experienced real cold. I think his home  town is in the same latitude as Brabant Lake. Maybe he thinks that reality should be part of the debate on the myth of  global warming.  He gives us a real, useful and painful picture of a friend who lost his grasp of reality and thus lost his life by marijuana.

    He is obsessed with real evil, the evil in us, in the world, in  history but he has no coherent explanation and I think he knows it. If Genesis is only a compilation of myths then Genesis has no answers. But Peterson cannot accept that Genesis does have the explanation of evil.  Perhaps he would use the old saw “but that is too simplistic.” Why a great many people read and listen to Peterson is because they are simplistic enough to trust their instinct on logic and illogic.

    What is wrong with Peterson’s book is what is wrong with evolution which is an unscientific dogma without proof, that answers nothing. Evolution cannot explain evil and good. It can’t even explain why it matters. Evolution can’t explain why people sing and create music. Evolution can’t explain worship and why we need to worship. Evolution can’t explain evolution.

    Jesus,  Jordan, is Not androgynous . He is a real Man.   When  St. John says “ In the beginning was the Word”, he is saying that Jesus is the Word and the Creator. He is a real being who really exists, creates , lives. As the Baltimore Catechism states, our job is to know Him.   Gay

Throw out Genesis one and the church is gone

JMJ
Jan.08, 2018
Baptism of Jesus

    The first verse of the Bible is Genesis 1: 1. In the Beginning God created the Heavens and Earth . The first statement of the Apostles’ Creed is I believe in God , creator of Heaven and Earth .  The first statement of the Nicene Creed is I believe in One God, Father Almighty Maker of Heaven and Eath and of all things visible and Invisible.  There is nothing ambiguous about the statements and no contradiction between the Bible and Catholic Teaching. St. Francis Xavier taught the Apostles’ Creed to illiterate people in many dialects and tongues of the Far East.  Farmers would sing the twelve points of the basic beliefs of Christianity while they plowed their fields. In this way the great missionary set the Eastern World Afire for Christ. If you wanted to be a Christian then you must believe that God created you and the world as a starting and necessary point.  No ifs, maybes or on the other hand.


    No body believed otherwise . It was never an issue until the nineteenth century. Darwin was on an agenda against God so he went on a trip to find evidence.  The evidence did not come first and the analysis later. One person who clearly saw the consequences of his theories was the Captain of THE BEAGLE , Darwin’s ship. Captain FitzRoy , great grandson of King Charles II spent many months in close quarters with Darwin, saw the same so called evidence that Darwin saw and drew very different conclusions. He opposed the work and conclusions of Darwin all his life.

    Evolution is not science. It is a theory with an ideological agenda.  It is not logical, not reasonable, and completely unprovable.  Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI while the Pontiff had put on a Conference THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF EVOLUTION in Rome. All the papers were available on the Internet.

    I asked Mr. Richard Fangard of CREATION MINISTRIES in Canada why he did not do an article about it for their magazine. He said that he had never heard of it. Apparently no Catholic publication has officially heard of it either.

    While marking the 500 years after Martin Luther’s thesis was nailed to a door on October 31, 1517 much nonsense with no historical basis was said. The worse was on a Catholic Radio programme where it was said that Catholics don’t have to believe Scripture about Creation because we don’t believe Scripture Only.
   
    All the early Church Fathers who wrote on the Subject believed in the inerrancy of The Creation Account including that a Day in Genesis was the specific word of a 24 hour period.  The Catholic Church compiled the Canon of the Bible . There was and is no contradiction between The Bible and The Church Tradition . Nobody in 1517 questioned the Creation Account of Genesis. Throughout the ages there has been difference of opinion in some details but what clearly contradicts historical Biblical and Church Tradition has never been accepted as a Belief Option.
   
    Billions of years of death, decay violence and arbitrary mistakes is not the Very Good that God saw on the seventh day.  Evolution throws out everything : Adam, Eve, original sin , a need for a Savior , a purpose and goal for Man. Throw out Genesis and the whole Bible is gone .  The Apostles understood that. That is why the first tenant of Faith is I BELIEVE IN GOD. CREATOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH.  Gay