JORDAN PETERSON'S FAILED ATTEMPT TO EXPLAIN THE TOPIC: THE TRUTH

Notoriously, Jordan Peterson over the past two years has demonstrated that he is on the path to knowing Jesus Christ, but so far, it is possible to distinguish that he has not accepted Him as his personal Lord and Savior. Therefore, the Holy Spirit has not yet revived his spirit. His words are good, have logical explanations, but all lifeless in themselves!

In the video below, Jordan struggles to explain in a confused and supervacanic way "The Truth".

Jordan explains that it is not enough just to try our best, it is necessary to be more than that, defending that human nature is fallen and that if we are not better, we will end up indistinguishable from those who made, for example, Auschwitz a reality.

The Bible mentions that human nature after the entrance of sin, became vile, malevolent and decadent, regardless of how much man wants to be good and upright. "As it is written: There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God. All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one. Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit. The poison of vipers is on their lips. Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed blood; ruin and misery mark their ways, and the way of peace they do not know." Romans 3:10-17

The apostle Paul, writing to the Romans in the text above based his knowledge on the writings of King David which states: "The fool says in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no one who does good. The Lord looks down from heaven on all mankind to see if there are any who understand, any who seek God. All have turned away, all have become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one." Psalm 14:1-3

Jordan quotes, somewhat distorted and abstruse, the words of Jesus Christ saying that no one goes to God except through the truth. However, it has not yet been revealed to him that the only truth is Christ Jesus. To connect with God, we need to come to Jesus Christ first, accept Him in such a way that our spirit is quickened by the Holy Spirit. Otherwise we remain dead, far from God. Jesus Christ said, "No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6b

Carefully ponder this text: "Remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility. And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near. For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit." Ephesians 2:12-22

Trying, by your own effort to be better is an illusion and for believers, worse than living a religiosity, just legality.

Dear Jordan, even though we try with all our effort to be excellent, we still remain sinful, sordid, mean, and in a miserable human nature. Therefore, it is not only what the cross of Jesus Christ means either but what the resurrection of Jesus Christ does in us when we accept Him and walk with Him. It is to walk the walk. It is the transformation that matters and not the lucid and philosophical exposition about "The Truth" because it is still bashed in on herself.

It is the Holy Spirit who brings life to the words of the apostle John warning us not to love this world and the things here. Read the following text and meditate: ^"Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. For everything in the world - the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life - comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever." 1 John 2:15-17

The only way we can live by not our own diligence and be better is a life of connection with the heavenly Father, otherwise it is a waste of time and at the end we are still doomed to eternal death.

"The Truth" is Christ Jesus and is in Him alone. Without Him, we do not connect to God, the Father, to receive the Holy Spirit, remaining dead for eternity, seeking the things of this world, being vile and evil, no matter how hard we try to be better.

"Jesus answered, I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6

Yes, without Jesus Christ there is no truth, independently how well explained and intended that can lead to the path of eternal life in God!

Thus, Jordan Peterson, it is not necessary to clarify in a circumscribed way as you did what has already been written by Jesus Christ with letters of fire for eternity. You too should accept "The Truth" and proclaim it!

"THE INFINITE IN THE BEGINNING" - AN ESSAY TO DAVID DEUTSCH IN HIS "THE BEGINNING OF INFINITY" - EBER STEVAO

* Note: From an essayist to a theologian, philosopher, educator, my father Gilberto Stevao, and to a linguist, teacher, educator, my mother Maria José de Lima Stevao.

David Deutsch writes a book entitled "The Beginning of Infinity" and I would like to bring light to "The Infinite in the Beginning" as a philosophical essay.

In the majority of the chapters of his book several meanings on his idea about "the beginning of infinity" are encountered, such as, but not limited to: a) Creation of knowledge, b) The mysterious universality to which the genetic code jumped, c) A window on infinity, d) The ending of the ancient aversion to the infinite (and the universal), e) Mini-enlightenments like those of Athens and Florence were potential beginnings of infinity, f) The rejection of bad philosophy, g) Biological evolution was merely a finite preface to the main story of evolution, and h) The unbounded evolution of memes.

He unmistakably discusses theories, philosophers, Karl Popper among several others. Philosophically discusses the earthly seasons, dangerously adventures himself into discussing creation, creationism, and neo-Darwinian theory, quantum physics applied on interference and multiverse, evolution of creativity which shows an absorbing aspect of an unquiet mind.

God is infinite and eternal, characteristics which we only can imagine but never truly scientifically measure it because we reside in a finite vessel containing both eternal and infinite, soul and spirit, which was expressed this way: "then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it." Ecclesiastes 12:7.

Because He created everything centered in Himself from His infinite knowledge, I put forward the comprehension that everything which is infinite in itself has His characteristic of infinite extent.

Not everything was created with the principle of infinity but what was created for eternity has the principle of infinity in itself. What is finite which He created serves to bring the counter notion of an infinite reality. With this idea I mean exactly what is written in Isaiah 40:14: "Whom did the Lord consult to enlighten him, and who taught him the right way? Who was it that taught him knowledge, or showed him the path of understanding?" 

Who is capable of creating mathematical and physical infinite aspects which Deutsch conveys as a raison d'être? Only who is infinite in itself, capable of using the same principles of endlessness found in Himself reiterated in "…and your years will never end." Psalm 102:27.

So the beginning of the infinite is only found in God (Elohiym - God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit) who together created the finite and the never-ending from an eternal perspective of infinity.

God created human beings in His image and likeness. Our infinite way of abstraction about infinity and aptitude to discussing it per se is an infinite representation of the Creator.

‘This is Earth. Not the eternal and only home of mankind, but only a starting point of an infinite adventure. All you need do is make the decision [to end your static society]. It is yours to make.’ [With that decision] came the end, the final end of Eternity. – And the beginning of Infinity wrote Isaac Asimov in 1955 in his novel The End of Eternity. 

David Deutsch and Isaac Asimov are constrained in their rationale or logic mind that man was created for finitude only breaking the barrier of eternity when adventures himself out of his static condition.

Both insisting in a possibility of the unlimited growth of knowledge in the future, seemed to remove the existence of the concept of eternity inserting the perception of infinity which can only exist within the eternity framework. A solid modifier, a meme using his own wording, with no infinity in itself.

Now, the only way to terminate the notion of eternity is getting rid of God from the human mind because a finite vessel with his predetermined power could never bring an end to what is eternal let alone destroying God from real existence. Unless if that mind uses the infinity yearning of knowledge to take out of equation the only authority in eternity which is represented by God.

David Deutsch ends his dense book with this very paragraph: "Many people have an aversion to infinity of various kinds. But there are some things that we do not have a choice about. There is only one way of thinking that is capable of making progress, or of surviving in the long run, and that is the way of seeking good explanations through creativity and criticism. What lies ahead of us is in any case infinity. All we can choose is whether it is an infinity of ignorance or of knowledge, wrong or right, death or life."

For sure what lies ahead of us is the eternity which will be infinite. Infinity without eternity and its Creator cannot exist or co-exist because they are mutually inclusive. Before us is presented life and death; eternal life or eternal death, leaving us the option to ignore the knowledge of Jesus Christ and His redemptive power for a saved eternity, a real infinity of days created by God.

Choose eternal life from the infinite in the beginning of all things which is centered in Jesus Christ because "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. " John 1:1-3, 14

P.S.: For those willing to read David Deutsch´s book "The Beginning of Infinity" you can acess it at https://docs.google.com/gview?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pdf-archive.com%2F2014%2F06%2F18%2Fthe-beginning-of-infinity%2Fthe-beginning-of-infinity.pdf&embedded=true

YOUR SLEEP, YOUR NAP WHICH WILL TAKE YOU TO YOUR ETERNITY

I woke up at this dawn to pray but first I went to check on my two boys who were quietly melted in their sleep. While reading Psalm 84:12: "Lord Almighty, blessed is the one who trusts in you", and meditating on it, the Spirit of God took me to a journey, a biblical one, as I write below.

What if you, reader, lay in bed tonight or take a nap in the middle of the day and kept sleeping indefinitely until you woke up with the return of Jesus Christ or before His Great White Throne Judgment after His thousand-year reign?

In fact, in this event above, you would have passed from this life to eternity, that is, you would have "used" your life here on earth and "used" your first death, if you would rather have two. There would be no turning back; c'est fini, tutto finito, for God's Word categorically states thus: "Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment." Hebrews 9:27.

The feeling you might sense waking up from that sleep would be you were literally cheated on your life, on your future, on your plans, on your possessions and on your family. How would you react? How would you, waking up at that exact moment, think about eternity, its implications and its truth?

Honestly, we have no control over our time here and we have no idea when we will leave this earth. The Word of God is very clear and states that those who departed from this life now sleep awaiting the resurrection (those who died in Jesus Christ) or His final judgment (the wicked).

Are you sure you will escape the second death if you pass the first one? The Word of God says thus in Daniel 12:2: "Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt." He who wakes up from sleep at the first resurrection will wake up and reign with Jesus Christ, for we read that: "Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years." Revelation 20:6

Understand that death, the passage of this life into eternity to come, is like the sleep above. Paul explains this to us: "Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope." 1 Thessalonians 4:13 To those who are in Christ Jesus, dead with Him and raised with Him, have no cause for sorrow, for Jesus Christ is our own hope of eternal life.

We are aware of our life but in this sleep that we will enter, if Jesus Christ does not return during the time of our life on this earth, we will not be aware of it (sleep/death). In Ecclesiastes 9: 5,6,10 it is written thus: "For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even their name is forgotten. Their love, their hate and their jealousy have long since vanished; never again will they have a part in anything that happens under the sun. Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom." 

This last verse seems to bring desolation but see what Jesus Christ himself promises us through the words of the prophet Hosea: “I will deliver this people from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death. Where, O death, are your plagues? Where, O grave, is your destruction?" Hosea 13:14

Those who were justified in Christ Jesus, who walked with Him as His disciples on this earth (not the churchy, religious, and false disciples who would not die for themselves, for they preferred to cling vigorously to this soon to end world), will be resurrected in Christ in His Second Coming. God's Word says so in 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17: "For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever."  From now on we are children of eternal resurrection, as it is written in Luke 20:36: "And they can no longer die; for they are like the angels. They are God’s children, since they are children of the resurrection." 

Note that in the text written by the apostle Paul to the Thessalonians, nothing is said about those who died without Jesus Christ. But another verse addresses the theme: "They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years. The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection." Revelation 20: 4b,5 That is, who died being with Christ, whom we shall call the wicked (because he was not washed by the blood of the Lamb), shall still sleep and he will have to wait for a thousand years which is the Sovereign Kingdom of Jesus Christ. Then he will wake up from his sleep, yes, that sleep mentioned above there in the beginning, to everlasting death.

And you may ask: - But who are the wicked? I am not a wicked person, I am a good person, I am not eveil, I only do good, I even believe there is a God, I go to Mass, to church to worship within my available time, etc. Understand what the following texts say about the wicked, in their respective biblical sequence:

1) "Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God." 1 Corinthians 6:9,10 (The unrighteous ones are all of those who were not justified by Jesus Christ, for they did not accept the righteousness of God through the saving Grace of His only begotten son, Jesus Christ);

2) "For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God." Ephesians 5:5;

3) "But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death." Revelation 21:8;

4) "Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood." Revelation 22:15

Final words

Why not thinking of your eternity now and prepare for when Jesus Christ returns for you do not know when you will definitely sleep until you awake to His Free-given Resurrection or to His Final Judgment? Why playing Russian roulette with your eternity?

If you are asleep, dozing, but not yet dead, awake from your sleep, your drowsiness, your slumber, for "Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed." Romans 13:11

100 YEARS FROM NOW!!!

In the year 2119, in just 100 years from now, every single reader of this message, and certainly all of your sons and daughters, will be underground, our bodies having become part of the soil. During that time, our fate in respect to paradise or hell would have been made known to us.

Meanwhile above the soil, our houses that were left behind would have become homes for others or demolished for better structures. Our clothes would have become rags for others and replaced by more recent trends, our cars will be on display as historical artifacts by others, also replaced by more advanced technology. As for us, we will be, for the most part, never thought about by anyone again. How often do you think about your great grandfather? How often does your great grandmother cross your mind?

Our presence here on earth today, that presence that we make so much noise about and shed so many tears for, was preceded by countless generations before us and shall be followed by countless generations after us. Every generation that passes through this world barely finds the time to take a glance at the world before needing to bid it farewell and handing over the baton, having not fulfilled even a fraction of ones ambitions. Our lives are, in reality, far shorter than we imagine.

In 2119, every one of us will realise from within the grave just how worthless this world actually was, and how trivial those dreams were that centred on it.

In 2119, every one of us will be wishing that we had dedicated our lives to great matters of GOD, and devoted ourselves to doing good deeds, particularly those that continue to benefit us after our death.

In 2119, many reading this piece will be screaming out, but in vain: 'My Lord return me, so that I may do good in that which I have left behind...' 

The response to this request, however, shall be: 'No!' And behind them is now a barrier until the Day they are resurrected.

In 2119, many will be in regret, saying: 'I wish that I had prepared for my life.'

Let us become righteous, for surely what happened to those we talk of, heard of and read of will surely happen to us. In fact, personal believe in JESUS CHRIST, HIS DEATH and RESURRECTION is the only answer to this problem. 

Live your life on this planet earth wisely. May the Almighty God be your immediate helper in Jesus Mighty name l pray.

WE WILL ALL DIE SOMEDAY!

Let us put more of our time, money and  energy  in serving God and helping humanity, taking care of the widows, sheltering the orphans, giving cloth and bread to the poor and hyngry we meet on our way.

Yes, certainly there is no more time to waste on an illusory world that will take us to heaven or hell, depending on the choices we make today! 

Why to get stuck here, everything will pass and tomorrow will be no more. Only eternity will remain which will SCREAM in our ears: "did you live or die to yourself while you lived?" 

Today, that SCREAM is still a gentle and sweet voice of Jesus Christ saying: "Die to yourself, follow me I will get you to my Father's mansion!"