(382) Contemporary explanation of the Hebrew Bible (Jordan Peterson)

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(382) Contemporary explanation of the Hebrew Bible (Jordan Peterson)

Desert Religions crushed the Myth of Abraham and the Myth of Paradise

Disclaimer: Please realize that this blog is searching for the fundamentals of human religion. It is not intended to debunk the many wisdoms of the Bible, which, however, are only the final derivatives in a long line of the origins of human religion:

Contemporary explanation of the Hebrew Bible:

The Old Testament is based on the interweaving of fragments of numerous ancient myths into a new overarching narrative to underscore the unity of a coveted monotheistic Jewish State. And this Hebrew Bible also contains a clear moral message. This philosophical wisdom became evident for a broader public through psychological lectures of Dr. Jordan Peterson (Biblical Series), who clarified that sacrificing to God is actually negotiating with the future by making sacrifices for a better life, as to invest in a study for a better job. 

This means that the morality of the Bible is not about pursuing hedonic happiness, the contemporary globalistic opium for the people, but about realizing that especially human suffering creates the conditions for understanding the true depth of life. And that the pursuit of a low life of hedonistic happiness does not provide enough resilience to the adversities of the future. 

Consumption drive has made Western civilization weak and looking foolish. Western society lost moral compass and degenerated into identity politics, especially through Western universities, which became the laughing stock of Eastern civilizations. 

So, the Bible makes our inner morality explicit through personalized stories like Cain and Able and Noah's Ark, which of course must not be taken literally and were only meant to be remembered easily by people who were not yet able to read or write. These strong and powerful Greek like metaphysical myths survived until now and guide believers through life, whereas without a deeper 'religious' compass people become self-satisfied steerless atheists. 

Jordan Peterson's success lies in his psychological approach to religion. As a result, he traverses and transcends differences between religions that hitherto have separated people hopelessly. His psychological approach is a 'eucumenical' breakthrough and offers an objective view on human religion. Psychological arbitrage between religions, who would have ever thought that. 

Young people are allergic to religious diversity, because they know that Babylonian confusion is not the way to the core. But this has created a reservoir of unfulfilled religious hunger. And because psychology as a science tries to be devoid of all kinds of false morals, we may be on a paradigm shift in understanding religion. Modern people are certainly interested in the Hebrew Bible, but are unable to translate casuistry like Cain and Abel into more abstract morality. And that's Peterson's strength.

Moreover, young men today lack a sensitive father figure for in-depth conversations in which they can project their own future development. So, Jordan's non-disguising, open and honest personality is a trustworthy and disarming cultural symbol for young people in the current arid landscape of racist cultural identity, which is another word for tribal religion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daVjWUCIbAc   

(1:17:00/5:59:14)

'God created order out of chaos. He confronted the potential of the future and determined in an ethical way which of these possibilities would become actual. He created being out of possibility. That's how he created the world and participated in the creation of reality. That was what God did in the beginning of time according to the old stories. God spoke and transformed potential into the being that was good. For humans it is the soul who transforms reality by truthful speech.'

'The soul is a singularity which we strangely share with other people. It unites us as sovereign individuals. The soul is part of our creative consciousness and might be in our collective unconscious.'

 

As an example of myths that have taken on a life of their own, let us take the myth of Abraham. Biblical accounts of Abraham's life should be seen as magical derivatives of earlier myths in which this powerful figure of ancient times regularly took on new meaning.

Well, in the Bible it will even no longer be primarily about women but more about philosophical issues.

So, biblical stories reflect the time in which they were written. And that might be far before the onset of the Desert Religions. And so, at last, all awareness of the earliest meaning of the Myth of Abraham has been erased from memory, from our collective unconscious, leaving us with a very cruel and illogical myth about Isaac.

Finding the right start configuration:

The origin of the Myth of Abraham can only be reconstructed afterwards by thinking logically towards the intellectual development of religious concepts in the evolution:

So, exploration of the hierarchy of religious concepts in the evolution is the only method that provides a rational and reliable start configuration of mythological figures, with Abraham as a great example. So it is quite possible to conduct scientific research on human religion by just thinking logically.

And then it makes sense that reincarnation and resurrection are religious concepts whose origins date back up to millions of years before the introduction of concepts as 'polytheism' and 'monotheism':