who is Jordan Peterson?

I want not to be misunderstood.  I mean neither to defame nor to repudiate Jordan Peterson; he strikes me as being very sincere in his beliefs and very candid with respect to his motivations.  My purpose in writing this essay has only to do with a serious concern I have related to what I perceive may be a real danger amongst many of Peterson's hearers/readers/followers; as I will shortly explain.

Jordan Peterson is a clinical psychologist and professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto, Canada.  Peterson attained widespread notoriety in connection with his refusal to submit to Canada's recently enacted laws which are aimed at compelling certain kinds of speech (related to contemporary gender issues).

Beyond his notoriety, however, Mr. Peterson furthermore appears to have become something of a cultural phenomenon.  As I perceive the case to be, many of Peterson's followers are perhaps more attracted to Peterson's willingness to boldly speak his mind (not unlike Donald Trump), than they are really interested to understand Peterson's oftentimes rambling ideas.  The fact that Peterson is a credentialed intellectual, doubtless, in the eyes of many of his followers, gives considerable weight to what things Peterson so boldly has to say in defiance of certain ideas promulgated by (most) other cultural elites.  In this age of identity politics and political correctness, Jordan Peterson has become an icon representing courageous resistance to sociopolitical coercion.  Good for him!

The problem as I see it, though, is that Peterson may far too easily be mistaken, by ignorant and/or careless persons, as being a Christian.  Therein lies the danger I alluded to, above.  Peterson rather freely speaks of God, of the Bible, and of Christianity; and, in a manner that seems to indicate Peterson's general acceptance if not his own belief in such things.  But having listened intently to a number of Peterson's interviews and lectures, I will unambiguously assert that I do not believe Jordan Peterson actually is a Christian ~ in any Biblical sense of that term.

Anyone who has listened much to Peterson's speech(es), will agree that Peterson exhibits a deep concern for the meaning, and careful use, of words; which Peterson himself has often acknowledged.  FOR THAT REASON, I believe it is therefore most important to discern and understand Peterson's characterization of Christianity, based upon his own words.  As I just stated, Peterson's characterization of Christianity does not comport with the Bible's description of Christianity.

There are reasons why the Apostasy is now so far advanced as it is.  The devil's emissaries ~ as the Bible forewarned, appear as "ministers of righteousness" (2 Corinthians 11:14-15) (though many of those emissaries are probably unaware that they are actually being used by Satan).  Moreover, many if not most professing Christians are woefully ignorant of Scripture; thus, they are susceptible to deception in some or another of its many differ guises.

Extremely important too, is that, because Peterson appears not to believe (if he even understands) the Bible as it is written; therefore, Peterson's ideas pertaining to human psychology must also be flawed.  At least, I have judged that to be the case in some of Peterson's teachings.  Examples of which I am willing to discuss elsewhere (Comments, below).

Christians who care to listen to Jordan Peterson (I do not say they should not), will do well to understand that Peterson does not espouse in his lectures and interviews a Biblical view of Christianity ~ or of human psychology.