Him not publicly confessing the name of Jesus is irrelevant if he's actively inspiring others to follow Jesus and isn't promoting any other false idols instead. As has already been stated, God repeatedly chooses unworthy Samaritans to make his points and do his bidding. Jacob vs Esau, Joseph's brothers, etc, etc. But the one thing Jesus said we could possibly ever rely on to "judge" people in any practical way, was to judge them by their fruits. Yet all the butthurt anti-JBP people seem to do, is turn a blind eye to the man's fruits, and judge him based purely on vague speculation and Pharisee-tier legalism:
Unforgivable sin
Wyatt Ross
Jackson Garcia
Literally just look through the youtube comments on his videos, or the comments/interviews on that other pastor's videos. Youtube has no way of easily citing comments, so you're on your own for that one, but there are tons there hidden away. And that's just the easy ones online, not counting the examples I've run into at my tiny local parish. I've talked to at least 4 converts that have mentioned him as an inspiration for converting, and when I brought him up to the pastor, he acknowledged that a decent chunk of the younger congregation likes him, and that a number of recent visitors interested in joining the church have mentioned him as well. I bet you'd probably even be able to verify this for yourself at your own local churches by asking around (if you're in an English speaking part of North America, can't speak for other parts of the world). I live in one of the most liberal, fedora-ridden cities in the entire continent, and even I'm running into JBP converts in a tiny orthodox church, so you might find even more people if you actually cared to look (which you don't, so you won't).
Bull crap, that was 100% your point in framing it that way, pretending that no other significant discussion of JBP happens elsewhere, not to mention completely ignoring that a lot of it actually happens offline as well (especially with regards to matters of church). Also, news flash: JBP rose to stardom on YouTube, and he is primarily a YouTuber, therefore the vast majority of discussion about him actually happens on YouTube *shock*. Naturally, his "flock" would be on the same platform he posts on and actively engages with, not freaking reddit of all places. A single one of his videos gets more comments and video responses in a day than his entire subreddit gets in a year. Like seriously, did you even think through the argument you gave here?
No one said he was, so that's irrelevant. Once again, what matters are his fruits, because *shock* God chooses "unworthy" people sometimes. It's not our role to judge those who do God's bidding.
No, you are. Quite literally by saying he's a heretical gnostic, when such a classification would only make sense if he were actually claiming to be Christian, or even theistic at all. I on the other hand, am treating him as someone who's done a lot of good for the church, nothing more, nothing less.
Sure, via personal responsibility.
No. You need some kind of serious citations or philosophical arguments to back that kind of claim up. On what planet does "clean up your room", "have kids", or "don't act like a victim", constitute some kind of new age god consciousness? Not to mention from someone who doesn't even step outside the limited materialist framework, or claim to be anything more than an agnostic of all things? Your argument would literally imply that all psychologists promote Satanism, because he's basically just saying stuff that any psychologist would say to his patients. Are you secretly some kind of anti-psychiatry Scientologist user? Cause your argument here is incredibly weak.
Actually, that's false anyway: orthodoxwiki.org
Weak. None of what you said invalidates the logical FACT that unless explicitly denied, symbols imply literally nothing about underlying literal accuracy. Not to mention that JBP is best friends with this orthodox icon carver that regularly makes this point very explicitly:
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So it is highly likely that he's aware of how symbolism works, and intentionally treads lightly to not rule out literal interpretations. He even got a ton of flack for not explicitly denying the possibility of the Resurrection literally happening for example:
youtube.com
Thus it is very likely he knows exactly what he's doing in keeping it ambiguous. Your interpretation of what he's "implicitly" saying is just lazy uninformed speculation.
Luis Parker
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Classic case of projection. What you're describing literally describes Vox Day to a T. Look at all the overnight followers he gained just for openly bashing Peterson. He knew there was a market out there just foaming at the mouth, ready for someone to rationalize their dislike of Peterson for them, and he captitalized on it big time. This is despite the fact that Peterson is just as much against SJW's as Vox Day supposedly is, and if anything, has been a far bigger boon to the whole anti-leftist movement than Day has. But it's obvious that Day just chose to capitalize on the whole anti-SJW stuff to sell books as well. And then he just moved on to the next "big thing" to profit off of, and that was JBP. It wasn't enough to just be an edgy anti-leftist, he's now trying to be an edgy alt-righter too. I'm sure he'll be up to the same antics again with another book of the same vain soon, covering some other Zig Forums-tier topic/personality.
There's definitely a false prophet trying to cultivate a cult of personality here, and it ain't Peterson.
Austin Hall
This is what a triggered gamma looks like lol
Xavier Turner
JBP is a globalist. He's a globalist arguing for a slightly different flavor of globalism. He isn't leading a crusade against evil, he's conducting a sectarian debate.
Daniel Bennett
to blaspheme means to give a false report or bear false witness
to blaspheme against the Holy Spirit is to do something the Pharisees were on the verge of committing; attributing the work of the Spirit to satan
this is a sin where one would need to have been graced with so much light as to have God reveal Himself in a magnificent and undeniable way to a man, yet that man say it was an evil thing - a morally repugnant and vile corruption - and thus this defamation of God on the part of man, an atrocity against the Almighty which will never be forgiven
Jaxon Sullivan
Peterson has been persistent and has never recanted from his usurpation of scripture with his false hermeneutics. He just makes stuff up. It's not just scripture he shoehorns every potentially useful notion into his formless philosophy of balance and it only works on people who don't understand what the terms are that he uses which almost always implicitly contradict what he says follows from them. He does this with winnie the pooh everything whether it's scripture, mesopotamian myth or eastern concepts like Tao; clearly not understanding them himself or just using it as a rhetorical tool to make stupid people think he's profound.
He's never bothered clarifying what he means from his statements and has never corrected his misuse of terms and concepts which are concrete outside of his postmodern woo-woo because he doesn't need to. He knows that his woo-woo only works on the dumb and blind and anyone already able to question his manipulation isn't manipulatable by him and thus irrelevant to his intention of conning people with pretty words.
This should be enough to show people he's incredibly dishonest but then he always ends up topping himself later on. I remember when I looked at his Million Dollar patreon that he was ragging against post-modernism ruining schools even though the entirety of his shpiel is postmodern "interpretation of truth", anti-logos dogshit. For winnie the pooh sake he even pissed off Evo-Psych people for misusing their own nonsense which is made up in a similar manner, it's absurd, a farce.
Regardless of what you think of VoxDay his analysis on Peterson is largely concise and correct. I and other have pointed that out for long before Vox ever dove into the gnittygritty of his books to make polemic against him. The comparison to Hubbard and that lineage is obvious by form, I've brought that up long before Vox ever even got wind of the guy. He's a textbook gnostic guru and nothing more. Though I Peterson for exposing the utter bankruptcy of liberalism and killing any remnant desire within me that it could possibly have any merit. So for that I thank his great service to me, a tremendous help, perhaps the only genuine help he's given anybody in contrast to his psychobabble that induces complacent mediocrity.
Thomas Rodriguez
Though I thank Peterson*