Famed Psychologist Jordan Peterson Tears Up Talking About Jesus

Tré Goins-Phillips : Mar 15, 2021
Faithwire.com

"The problem is I probably believe that, but I'm amazed at my own belief, and I don't understand it..." -Jordan Peterson

[Faithwire.com] ...After having disappeared for a while as a result of personal mental health struggles, an autoimmune disorder, and an addiction to benzodiazepines, Peterson has re-emerged with a new book, "Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life," a follow-up to his best-selling 2018 work, "12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos." (Screengrab image)

Peterson has participated in a handful of virtual interviews to promote his brand new title, which released March 2.

During his conversation with Orthodox Christian artist Jonathan Pageau, Peterson revealed a profound openness to Jesus with a vulnerability unlike his past comments about faith and Christianity, which he references frequently in his writing.

"The difference—and C.S. Lewis pointed this out as well—between those mythological gods and Christ was that there's a historical representation of His existence as well," Peterson said. "[S]o what you have in the figure of Christ is an actual person who actually lived plus a myth, and, in some sense, Christ is the union of those two things."

"The problem is I probably believe that, but I'm amazed at my own belief, and I don't understand it," he continued, beginning to cry. "Because I've seen, sometimes, the objective world and the narrative world touch—you know, that's union synchronicity. And I've seen that many times in my own life and so, in some sense, I believe it's undeniable"... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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