To be fair he chooses to say a great deal about Christianity. He repeatedly raises the subject.He claims that atheists don't exist.
But when he is asked to simply clarify if takes the claims of Christianity literally he obfuscates.
Posts by cofty
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22Jordan Peterson - Messiah or Poseur?
by cofty ina jp video came up on my youtube feed last week - he was on a panel in front of a huge audience and some poor disturbed guy ran on stage and started crying and wailing to peterson that he needed his help.
it was agonising to watch.. what was even more disturbing was the comments section.
i do not exaggerate when i say that dozens of people were extolling peterson's wisdom as if jesus had come again.
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Jordan Peterson - Messiah or Poseur?
by cofty ina jp video came up on my youtube feed last week - he was on a panel in front of a huge audience and some poor disturbed guy ran on stage and started crying and wailing to peterson that he needed his help.
it was agonising to watch.. what was even more disturbing was the comments section.
i do not exaggerate when i say that dozens of people were extolling peterson's wisdom as if jesus had come again.
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cofty
One of my biggest frustrations with JP is his obfuscation every time he is asked a simple question about his Christian beliefs.
Q - 'Do you believe that Jesus walked on water?'
JP - 'Well that would depend on what you mean by 'on' and that's a very deep question. I've been studying the meaning of 'on' for 20 years and to really answer that would take a 600 page book. Walking 'on' anything references an ancient archetype that goes back 3 billion years to the beginning of life on our planet and the relationship between physical beings and the way they move through their environment. I've been giving this a lot of thought recently, in fact I've thought about nothing else day and night for months and I'm not even sure I've began to plumb the depths of what it really means to say that somebody walked 'on' water. So you see it's not something that we can properly address in a forum like this. I mean how much time do we have? And that is before we even begin to think about what it really means to 'walk'. It's a profound subject and I don't think we want to go there right now.'
This is hardly even an exaggeration. For somebody who criticises the postmodernists he sounds more obscure than Derrida every time he is asked to commit to anything.
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Do You Use “ALEXA”?
by minimus ini got the amazon echo dot and it’s pretty good.
do you use it for anything?.
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cofty
Social media companies sole source of income is to gather and sell your data.
Alexa listens. Alexa is permanently connected to the internet. Alexa collects data.
Fuck off Google.
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Only One Destiny for All Christians
by cofty inthe following is an extract from an article i wrote when i left the watchtower 25 years ago.
it may be helpful in reasoning with a jw about the anointed/great crowd distinction.. --------------------------------.
to divide people into those with a heavenly hope and those with an earthly one is not a biblical concept.
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cofty
The gospel message is NOT about paradise earth or utopia in heaven.
It is about forgiveness and reconciliation with God now in the present life. The materialistic gospel of the watchtower is alien to the gospel.
The NT looks forward to a time when heaven and earth will be one. Paul claimed to be agnostic about the nature of the resurrected body but the heaven/earth dichotomy is not biblical.
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Only One Destiny for All Christians
by cofty inthe following is an extract from an article i wrote when i left the watchtower 25 years ago.
it may be helpful in reasoning with a jw about the anointed/great crowd distinction.. --------------------------------.
to divide people into those with a heavenly hope and those with an earthly one is not a biblical concept.
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cofty
Eyes - I thought that much was obvious.
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Only One Destiny for All Christians
by cofty inthe following is an extract from an article i wrote when i left the watchtower 25 years ago.
it may be helpful in reasoning with a jw about the anointed/great crowd distinction.. --------------------------------.
to divide people into those with a heavenly hope and those with an earthly one is not a biblical concept.
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cofty
Two destinies - and more egregiously two sorts of Christians - is contrary to the gospel.
You (SBF) got closer to the NT position when you said - 'the distinction between heaven and earth may not be as clearly defined.'
Matt 11 does not teach that John the Baptist would not see heaven. John was a prophet of the Old Testament style. The Kingdom of Heaven is a metaphor for the gospel of reconciliation ' The Kingdom is within you'.
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Only One Destiny for All Christians
by cofty inthe following is an extract from an article i wrote when i left the watchtower 25 years ago.
it may be helpful in reasoning with a jw about the anointed/great crowd distinction.. --------------------------------.
to divide people into those with a heavenly hope and those with an earthly one is not a biblical concept.
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Only One Destiny for All Christians
by cofty inthe following is an extract from an article i wrote when i left the watchtower 25 years ago.
it may be helpful in reasoning with a jw about the anointed/great crowd distinction.. --------------------------------.
to divide people into those with a heavenly hope and those with an earthly one is not a biblical concept.
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The following is an extract from an article I wrote when I left the Watchtower 25 years ago. It may be helpful in reasoning with a JW about the anointed/Great Crowd distinction.
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To divide people into those with a heavenly hope and those with an earthly one is not a Biblical concept. “There are new heavens and a new earth that we are awaiting according to his promise, and in these righteousness is to dwell” (2 Pet.3:13), but that does not mean that God has selected some for heaven and some for earth. In the sermon on the mount Jesus began by making the nine statements known as the beatitudes, in which he declares certain types of people to be happy or blessed, and in each case he makes a promise concerning their future. (Matt.5:3-12) It is clear that Jesus is painting a composite picture of all those who belong to Him, not a list from which individual statements could be chosen and applied to individuals at random. Among the promises that Jesus makes are, “the kingdom of the heavens belong to them”, “they will inherit the earth”, “they will see God” and “they will be called sons of God.” If we are part of Christ’s body then we all have the same hope as Paul reminded the congregation at Ephesus. “One body there is, and one Spirit, even as you were called in the one hope to which you were called; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all.” (Eph.4:4-6) Since Jesus will keep all of His promises we can conclude that seeing God, and inheriting the earth, are not mutually exclusive destinies......
There are, by the Bible’s reckoning, only two sorts of people. Everybody begins as the same sort; children of Adam or, “in Adam”. In this state they are, under “condemnation” (Rom.5:18), “alienated” from, and “enemies” of God (Col.1:21), “children of wrath” (Eph. 2:3), under the “authority of darkness” (Col.1:13), walking in “accord with the flesh” (Rom.8:4), “slaves of sin” (Rom.6:17), and “dead in their trespasses” (Eph.2:1&5).
This is not the Bible’s description of an especially depraved person but of the normal human condition from God’s perspective. It matters not at all that we may not feel guilty or under condemnation, God’s inspired word says emphatically that we are.
The other sort of person is, “in Christ”. These are, “declared righteous” (Rom.5:1), “reconciled to God” (Rom.5:10), “born of God” (1 Jhn.5:1) or “born again” (Jhn.3:3), “beloved children” of God (Eph.5:1), “transferred into the kingdom of the Son of God’s love” (Col.1:13), indwelled by “God’s Spirit” (Rom.8:9), part of a “new creation” (2 Cor.5:17), and “alive together with the Christ” (Eph.2:5).
The difference between these two groups is not that the latter are more worthy, or that they try harder to be good, nor that they naturally have more interest in spiritual matters or an ability to read and understand the Bible. It is simply that they have put faith in God’s provision for their salvation. They have humbly abandoned their attempts to earn His favour and trusted in Jesus as their Saviour. For someone to feel that these blessings could not apply to them because they are not worthy is for that person to miss the point of the good news. Nobody is good enough, that is exactly the point at which the gospel begins.
We cannot pick and choose which of the above descriptions of those who belong to God apply to us, and which ones do not. We cannot for example be reconciled to God, but not be a “new creation”. (see 2 Cor.5:16-19) We cannot be “beloved children” of God, but not be “born of God”. We cannot draw a line between calling God “Father”, and calling him, “Abba, Father”. If we have not been adopted then we are not His children, He is not our Father, and we have no right to call Him such at all. If we are His children then we are also joint heirs with Christ. If we are “in harmony with the Spirit” then “God’s Spirit truly dwells” in us, but if we do not have the Holy Spirit then we do “not belong to” Christ. (See Rom.8:9-17) Only if we are “led by the Spirit” can we produce the “fruitage of the Spirit”. But again, if we are, then we can cry out “Abba Father” and we are adopted as sons of God and joint heirs with Christ. (See Gal.4:6,7;5:16-24)
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The Simpson's APU is now NOT politically correct...
by The Fall Guy in...so he's being cut from the the programme.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-51158261.
the world is going bonkers!
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cofty
Pretending to take offense on behalf of others is how boring people amuse themselves now. It's all about virtue signalling and earning social capital.
People who cave in to these bullies need to know that it will cost them more to capitulate than to stand firm. 'Go woke go broke' Gillette is a classic example.
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Jordan Peterson - Messiah or Poseur?
by cofty ina jp video came up on my youtube feed last week - he was on a panel in front of a huge audience and some poor disturbed guy ran on stage and started crying and wailing to peterson that he needed his help.
it was agonising to watch.. what was even more disturbing was the comments section.
i do not exaggerate when i say that dozens of people were extolling peterson's wisdom as if jesus had come again.
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OneEyedJoe - you summed up my thoughts exactly thanks.
For somebody who has done so much good work exposing the fraud of postmodernism Jordan sounds exactly like the philosophers he despises whenever he is asked a challenging question.
Stephen Hicks is infinitely more interesting and informative than Peterson on many of the the same subjects.
I think neverendingjourney hit on something when he said that Peterson is a father figure for lots of young men in particular.
He definitely tries to play both sides in the area of spirituality. He must know he is being dishonest.