Pretty good interview to listen to. Though I wished it could have gone a little deeper as Prager can be a deep thinker sometimes when he has the right guest.
However the topic of this thread is on Jordan Peterson's take on whether or not he believes in God.
I am a big fan of Peterson and follow him quite closely. As someone who is no longer a "true believer" I do admit his lecture series on the Bible really turned me around on understanding the profound significance of and good that has come from the book, though I still do not think it to be divinely written.
His take that he professes in this interview, which is at 9:48 if you don't want to listen to the entire interview, is that it is dangerous to say that you "believe" in God because to truly be a believer you would live out that truth 100% every day. So instead he says "he tries to live as if there were a god". I have no problem with living that way, or claiming to live that way. What I want to dissect is his implication that one is only a TRUE believer if he lives exactly as he would believe the god he believes in wants him to. He makes no ties to salvation or anything, he is just speaking to the essence of being a "believer".
You really just need to listen to the whole explanation he gives in the video.
My contention is that one does not need to live a 100% authentic life to literally believe in a god, be it the christian one or whatever.
I see it similar to the question "do you love your mom?"
You can absolutely, 100% love your mother, yet you will still have many instances of disobeying her.
Would you say that in the moment of disobeying your mom, like lying to her about doing your homework, that you did not love her?
I get that Peterson is really trying to look at the question on a meta level, as he does most everything, but I don't follow with his logic on this one.
What is your take?
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