Oh, that would be so wonderful!!!!!

I mean, that would be pretty cool, but we all know the general authorities aren't spending their spare time doing podcasts.

@@FebbieG yeah, I know, but it would be very cool.

@@FebbieG Maybe they should. Podcasts are the new form of communication.

We have inherited many spiritual attributes from our Heavenly Father. Like the sense of empathy, sympathy, modesty, creativity, logic and even humor. But in different portions. It seems that you fortunately have been endowed generously. I hope the Zion you have built in your home goes viral. Notwithstanding your effort and that of many others, my pessimistic frame of mind tells me that Zion will not happen except The Savior returns.

@@edwardgabriel5281 I often feel the same way. But I also feel that the Book of Mormon calls us to have hope and faith that the Lord's work can be carried out by even imperfect servants. Ether 12:32 is a great reminder to have hope.

Where do you get the concept that you are "preparing the earth" for the second coming? This is completely false doctrine, based solely on the belief that the "prophet" is for our day. How is that so, apart from the church always and only goes right along with everything and anything that is politically expedient. Jordan Peterson also says to do things that are meaningful, not that are expedient. The mormon church will do anything to save its bacon and protect its 501 3 c status. Nelson going to visit the pope and returning referring to him as "his holiness" is a far cry from the doctrine taught in prior years that the catholic church is the great and abominable church. So either they never were, or now the mormon church is also part of the great and abominable church. There is no way around this, and either way it shows how wrong the church is about everything. I suppose you also believe that the second coming will be announced from conference pulpit and Jesus will appear and kindly ask the current "prophet" to step aside and allow him to take control of the church. Puerile, in the extreme.

I like that.

Wow really? Jordan Peterson "spiritual"? I wouldn't consider him spiritual at all. Let alone most spiritual.. You must not listen to many people. Thats good. Only listen to Jesus.

@@br.m I listen to Jesus a lot. And to Jordan Peterson. Try listening to his Exodus series. Or Genesis. Or his maps of meaning lectures on KZfaq. He is getting at the deepest in us and the highest outside of us. I think he is spiritual.

@@sagegallagher No. Thanks. I appreciate the offer, but it's like this. Jordan Peterson is not that smart, he is over rated. He talks about the Bible like a fool. The truth is I'm much smarter than him and I understand the Bible. He does not. He should stop acting like an expert and authority on literally every topic. Plus I have a dad and my dad is way cooler than JP.

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Now wouldn't that be something.

The Paul Brothers from the stick of Joseph got him and even put his name on it they said waiting to be in the same place as him to give it to him.

He's too smart to fall 4 the Book of Mormon!!!

He has them. He is trying to stay as non-controversial as possible to reach as many people as possible. Bringing up the BofM would instantly cost him most of his audience and the potential lives he could help change for the better. Too many "Christians" have taken it upon themselves to deem us beyond heretical and worthy of destruction in some cases. I don't blame him for avoiding it. He may have read it, but I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for him to bring it up.

​​@@davidjanbaz7728speaking of those hellbent on deconstruction. Strange how the trolls always hide their comments in responses to other people's comments and rarely offer them up as leading comments. Just like the mythical troll hiding in a cave or under a bridge, waiting for someone with courage to wander too close so they can pounce. Avoiding the light because light (ie truth) would turn them to stone. Always ready to criticize but never offering anything in return.

I agree. Whenever I hear JP speak, I imagine how amazed he would be if he knew the truths we have in the Church. Some day.

I dunno, he seems to have a better understanding of the gospel than most of "we".

@@edwinphilips5212 yes but he needs to make the covenants required to get on the straight and narrow path which leads back to Heavenly Father. 😇

@debfryer2437 Fair enough, but when he gets approached by a bunch of pharisees, telling him he just needs to read this book and do some specific, dogmatic stuff, when he's actually living a more christian life than most of them...

Couldn’t agree more. We have been sharing it with family and some friends. It’s excellent.

I read and recorded that entire book, letter by letter, on my channel. It's a great one!

@@establishingzion688 oh nice I’ll have to listen to those I read the book years ago so it may be time to read it again

Another fascinating book written by Douglas Murray: The War on the West. I like what he writes in regards to the dangers of unmitigated deconstruction. "An only vaguely milder version of this has existed in plain sight for decades. That is the obsession that started in the academy and then spread elsewhere that is given over to the veneration of “deconstruction.” This is the process by which everything from the past can be picked over, picked apart, and eventually destroyed. It can find no way of building. It can only find a way of endlessly pulling apart. So a novel by Jane Austen is taken apart until a delicate work of fiction is turned instead into nothing more than another piece of guilty residue from a discredited civilization. What has been achieved in this? Nothing but a process of destruction. Those who have made a career out of this find a number of things in their favor. One is the fact that their task is potentially endless, as the possible subjects appear limitless. It is a career for life for the deconstructionists. But still nothing is created or even produced at the end of this process. The only possible demand at the endpoint of deconstruction is to deconstruct some more. And it seems possible to pull apart and find cause for resentment endlessly. Certainly, that is the hope of the deconstructionists, who now scour the world of art and look for symbols of rape, male dominance, privilege, racism, and much more. And of course they find things to occupy their time. For you might easily look at a painting and ask what errant thoughts might have been behind it. You might also ask what labor went into it and whether any forced or unpaid labor was involved in it. You might look at the paint colors and question the origins of the pigments, whether they were legitimately or sustainably acquired. You might ask what pay the apprentices in the artist’s studio received and whether everyone had been adequately compensated by their superior to produce this work for a man of even greater power. You might pull its subjects apart, and “interrogate” its meanings in the light of things that have come after it. You might see all manner of things. You might lament the lack of representation of any kind. Or you might step back and see the Madonna of the Rocks by Leonardo da Vinci, the Annunciation by Sandro Botticelli, or any number of other works of art stretching back across centuries of creation by the masters. It is the same with buildings. You might look at the great cathedrals and other monuments of Europe and ask who carried all these stones or winched them up, whether they were appropriately paid for their labor and whether the conditions at the time were consistent with modern standards of worker safety. You might ask why people of only one skin color appear to be represented in the monuments or why people only of European background appear to be mentioned on them. You may even ask whether the act of building a structure to a particular God, in the name of a particular religion or denomination, is not in some way exclusive, even exclusionary. You might ask where the money for these great structures came from, whether that money was honestly acquired or whether some portion of the money was taken illegitimately from the poor, the needy, or even from other countries and peoples who had no say in where these finances went. You could do all these things and more. Or you could stand back and admire the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, the Cappella Sansevero in Naples, the Duomo in Florence, or tens of thousands of cathedrals, churches, chapels, and other monuments. Why should we not simply stand back and credit our good fortune to have inherited these things and enjoy the great good fortune of being able to live among them? These are a gift from humans to all humankind. The reason is that what we have seen in recent decades in the West has been a grand project of deconstruction and destruction fueled by resentment and revenge."

Really? you mean he wasnt a con artist with a cult and concubines and a criminal?

lol

They were copied. The Bible was all that was needed.

Galatians 1:8-12 NKJV But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed. For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ. But I make known to you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man. For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came through the revelation of Jesus Christ. NKJV: New King James Version Share Read Galatians 1

and what do the repeated verses in the New Testament mean that say we are rewarded according to what we have done?

@@lemjwp1756 It's about intent and understanding grace. We obey God's Law because we love Him. Hopefully we are living the gospel because we genuinely believe it and want to live it...not out of any fear, shame or ego. If we are concerned about "being good enough" or somehow think we can "earn heaven"...we don't understand grace.

I don't disagree with a single thing you said. Yet, scripture is repeatedly clear that actions do matter, that faith minus works is dead, and that we are rewarded according to what we do, and that if we love him, we keep his commandments. The Bible dictionary defines grace as "the enabling power from God that allows men and women to obtain blessings in this life and to gain eternal life and exaltation after they have exercised faith, repented, and given their best effort to keep the commandments."

Sir you are right. Don't expect to convince anyone who disagrees with you though. They just wont comprehend faith, judgement, reward. They misunderstand. Just like people who know faith alone can't understand those who think it is work. They always dig up the 1 or 2 verses like the only thing they can do is quote from James " faith without work is dead" and then conflate that to justify their own understanding. Jesus was clear and scripture is clear. The work of God is to believe in Jesus. Like Moses lifted up the snake. These work based people are like those who name the bronze snake and worship it. Cherry pickers cherry picking verses and abusing them. Like they throw their dart at the wall and then draw the bullseye around it.

@@lemjwp1756 Did you notice there is one thing for you and another for me? You are sick and need a doctor? That is what you are saying. The law is for the wicked. The righteous are a law unto themselves. Jesus came to heal the sick not the healthy. You better be more devout than the Pharisees then

Because Paul basically covered all that in the New Testament ;)

Where’s the precise data on that claim? Being a member of a religion and being an engaged believer are two separate categories. Jacob’s and Jordan’s message is about the latter category.

Thanks for the irrelevant information

That's because atheists R such a small minority !

Yeah, Id like to read those statistics, too. I think most of the "religious" people in prison "find God" there...because theres not a whole lot else to do there!! Plus it looks good for parole. Not to be TOO cynical lol!!

This is a good way to say you’ve never been to prison

The fact that the FLDS can pervert the gospel doesn't diminish the authentic gospel.

@@lemjwp1756 try listening to them. Peter Santenello just did a fantastic series on the FLDS church. I would highly recommend it. If you listen to them, you'll realize that many things they say are exactly how the mormon church acted 20 to 30 years ago. Are you telling me that the current Q15 of the church haven't perverted the gospel?

Huh?

huh?

@@ikerd9661 "Huh" indeed.

Huh?

Jordan wouldn't be able to help people out of the darkness Who need to hear his message if he was lds. What if it's part of his life's plan to not become lds... To sacrifice that opportunity in this lifetime, in order to save millions of souls who desperately need to hear his message, but would not be able to if they knew he was lds?? I am a proud member of the lds church, and I love Jordan Peterson... but... Thank god Jordan Peterson isn't LDS... And I hope he never becomes LDS in this lifetime. Hear me out... I have a very strong reason for feeling this way. If you think i'm wrong after reading what i'm about to tell you, Please, by all means, reply and let me know why... REALLY.... but All I ask is you first hear me out and read my thoughts on why I feel the way I feel about this particular subject. We're all taught In the lds church, that unless you experience some darkness in your life... You can't really know or be able to appreciate gods light to the fullest. I fell away from the mormon church at age 18, when I decided to see what else life had to offer... Slowly, I became enveloped into darkness - And at some point I was so deeply entrenched that I had become convinced there was no way back out of it. As I sunk deeper end deeper into that darkness, Out of utter hopelessness and despair, I even prayed a few times for god's help... but received no answers. In fact, after praying, things in my life seemed to only get worse... So I had all but proclaimed at that point that I was an atheist. If god even did exist, I felt I had been ignored by him... That he had turned his back on me, and left me to perish in the darkness that was surrounding me. I didn't even necessarily blame him - I was willing to own my bad choices, and realize I had walked myself into the darkness, But once there, Realizing that my prayers weren't being answered, and that life was actually getting worse when I did pray, I came to the horrible conclusion that I may have doomed myself for all eternity. That, perhaps it was far too late for me. What was my value in the world, If god had turned against me? It was far easier And honestly at the time made far more since to Rationalize him as being nonexistant, than to acknowledge his existance and simultaneously have to feel the pain of being ignored and rejected by him. But it turns out, god had a really good reason for not answering those prayers... And even for making things worse for me every time I prayed. He knew me, and knew I would have to be in a darker place still... in complete and utter darkness in order to notice a small pinpoint of light that I believe he had planned to bring into my life when the time was right. That pinpoint of light, for me, and millions of others in the world, was Jordan Peterson. AND HERE'S WHY I THANK GOD JORDAN PETERSON WASN'T AND MAY NEVER BE LDS (AT LEAST NOT IN THIS LIFETIME).... Had Jordan Peterson come in as a member of the Mormon church, I would have dismissed his message immediately and entirely. Not MAY have, I WOULD have! If I knew that Jordan Peterson was LDS When I first heard him speak, None of his words would have gotten through to me. And the blessings and miracles that have happened in my life since I've been listening to his lectures, would have never occurred. Am with as far down as I had sunk by the time I discovered him, I truly don't even like to think about where I would be now if it weren't for the fact that I was willing to give him a chance, and hear what he had to say. Jordan peterson is not LDS and may never become LDS in this lifetime. But in the vast space of eternity... We all will have opportunities to do anything we ever dreamed of. When it comes to Jordan, Peterson's mortal life, I believe it was actually god's plan for him NOT to read the Book of Mormon. God made a promise with that book, And it wouldn't be broken with jordan. So, if Jordan, read that book and the promise was fulfilled, (as i believe it would be), He would no longer be able to reach so many who have fallen away and need the help that only he can so skillfully deliver. I testify to this truth, because i've been there. This is a good man who deserves our respect and reverence. I thank God every day for this man.... He pulled me out of a place of true death. Thank god he was someone I was willing to listen to, Because he wasn't wearing a badge from any religious group, Nor did he possess any kind of religious bias... He was simply a well educated human being who had hope to share with me, And was able to deliver it beautifully due to his incredible talent in articulation and teaching. He was exactly what I needed and millions of others in the world needed, and he's what millions more still need today. God knows what he's doing in our lives. I think we, as latter day saints, I need to walk in our faith that in the vast space of eternity, he will Come to know the same truths and blessings that we have known in this church during this lifetime on earth. I believe jordan peterson was called upon to sacrifice that possibility in this lifetime in order to save millions of lives. But that doesn't mean he won't one day be blessed with the same understandings that we enjoy now. 🙏 LDS or not LDS, There are people in the world that save millions of lives during their lifetime... Thank god for them all! God's plan for us is perfect and good, Even if it doesn't make sense in the moment, Trust me... Perspective is everything. This is why I am grateful that Jordan Peterson wasn't and hopefully will never become LDS - Which is why he can never read the book of mormon. I want more people to hear jordan's words, And to begin, to find their way back like I have... ...God knows what he's doing. I promise.