In the swarm of the chaos that seeks to devour the West, Dr. Jordan B. Peterson conducts his third biblical series as a | dHNfSTVfb3lVRGlsS0U
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00:00In the beginning, was the Word.
00:03Christ is a master at using short, mysterious stories.
00:07They change the listener who takes them seriously.
00:11My experience with the biblical text
00:14is that they're inexhaustible sources of wisdom.
00:16If I find something in them that is an obstacle,
00:18it's because there's something in me
00:20that has yet to be transformed.
00:22I just don't get it.
00:25The person that you do not think could ever be virtuous,
00:27whoa, let me show you.
00:28This is the person who is fulfilling
00:30the law and the prophets.
00:31But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness,
00:34and all these things shall be added to you as well.
00:36I don't believe in that promise.
00:37I'll just be honest at this point.
00:39That has not been part of my experience.
00:41This parable, I've been trying to understand forever.
00:44While we were talking and while we were sitting there,
00:46then it hit me, I saw it.
00:47Name me one ideology that has supplanted Christianity
00:51that has done good for humanity.
00:54This Jew is very frightened of a post-Christian society.
00:58He was the God-man, the model, the example
01:00of what we ought to become and what we can become.
01:03It's okay, it's safe for you
01:05and all of your doubts and apprehensions
01:07to open up and to let these stories in.
01:10He is the temple, he is the Torah, he is the covenant,
01:13he is prophecy fulfilled.
01:15If you're doing this and it isn't also the love of wisdom,
01:18it's also an attempt at wisdom without love.
01:20In both ways, you're going radically wrong.
01:22Power of love.
01:23It sounds so cliche when you say it.
01:24I'm 60, man.
01:26I don't wanna be in a Hallmark card, I tell you.
01:29We've got our work cut out for us, gentlemen.
01:31This is one peculiar time and one peculiar text
01:34and I sure hope we're up to the task.