A few takeaways: The comment @ 4:15 that "Jesus drove out the demons before he accepted the person" is backwards. Jesus accepts people then drives out their evil. It's like what hospitals do, they accept patients then heal them.
It's the order I'm familiar with personally. Christ accepted me, then afterwards he began removing the evil and destructive things in me.
Saul of Tarsus found that same order in his own salvation. Jesus came to him on the road to Damascus, then the most dramatic transformation of anyone up to that point began (Acts 9).
One item I didn't care for was his triumphalist attitude toward his wife @ 42:00 about her worrying whether he could make money if he quit his job to go full time studying and exposing the Left. Then as he began to prosper at it he said, "it's worked out. I get to rub it in her face every day. I did yesterday because now I even get paid to tweet." It was a case of saying the quiet part out loud - and in a public talk.
In contrast, I've never heard Jordan Peterson, someone who admits to still be struggling with Faith, express anything like that or put his wife in a bad light. He'd make a better pastor than a lot of the ordained ones do in this regard.
On the positive side, his talk was a brilliant exposure of the state of our culture brought on by the Left, and its origins. For example, I hadn't heard of Herbert Marcuse (4:45), the father of the New Left, but it sounds like his work is worth some investigation.
The Q&A was very good too. |
