Life Jesus and Jordan Peterson

I keep hearing the word 'love' thrown around - God is love, love yourself, love your neighbour and John Lennon even wrote a song called 'All you need is love' - but it's not enough because the word 'love' is the most abused word of our times, and has become almost meaningless. But I didn't realise this until I got a wake up call when reading a passage about love in the bible. Corinthians 13 4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness c

I’m not a very good Christian, instead I’m a much better hypocrite, especially when it comes to forgiveness. I can even quote a couple of passages from the bible where we are clearly told to forgive such as: Matthew 6 14 For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15 But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins. or Epheisians 4 32 Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you. My problem is that intellectually I know forgiveness is the right thing to do, but I’m not sure I would be able to forgive in all instances, although I can think of at least two cases where I have forgiven someone, although it’s taken me many years, and it wasn’t planned. I’m talking about my high school nemesis, Simon Smith, who made life hell for my first two years of school, and I can still vividly picture that first day of class when the misery be

My father pastors at his local prison, and he often tells me that many of the inmates blame their father for being in prison. Some never had a father, some were beaten and abused by their father, and some say their father was the direct reason for their incarceration. As a result these men are angry. It’s not just their fathers’ they are angry at but everyone and everything around them because what is raised in anger only responds in kind, and that’s when they get in trouble. Their anger often started showing through from their school days and was directed at teachers, students or the whole school system and as they’ve grown it transferred to society, their girlfriends, wives and even their own children. It’s become a cycle, or more like a curse, that is passed from father to son. It’s easy for us on the outside to see the destruction such anger is brining into their lives and suggest they somehow change - while many of the inmates see the problem and want to change, it’s hard to

I've got some advice for Jordan Peterson regarding his reluctance to call himself a believer in God. I'm still trying to figure out if I'm a genius or delusional to make such a claim, but I have the sneaky suspicion Jordan takes his own advice very seriously, and might be willing to listen to a regular guy like me, who has no particular talent, when I say I might know something new that he might want to learn. My advice is not just for Jordan, but for everyone who loved what he had to say as he described why he is reluctant to give a definite answer about the existence of God, because he's missing something really important. I can relate to Jordan when he says he’s not good enough to call himself a believer in God. Most men by the time we reach our middle years discover that everyone is having a hard time, especially when we realise we could have been a better person. We look back on our lives and see that we could have been a better husband, father, friend or co