Monday, November 26, 2018

"Deciphering the Gospels"


This is from the Overview of the book pop cognitive "scientist!" Pinker is endorsing here:

It is shown that the teachings of Jesus in the Gospel of Mark, as well as the relationship between Jesus and his “disciples”, are all derived from the letters of Paul.

This is interesting because in all of Paul's letters he never once mentions the word "disciple" or the "discipling"  method of cognitive development used by Jesus with His "disciples" as depicted in the "gospels"...

Paul rather refers exclusively to his own didactic cognitive development methodology.... so its hard to see how Jesus using His "discipling" methodology could be derived from Paul's letters; as Paul never uses that word or refers to himself employing that methodology...

Pinker the pop so-called "cognitive scientist!"  here apparently ignorant of different cognitive development methodologies... this is interesting...

I've just started to follow "scientist" Pinker waiting for him to endorse the "out of money!" meme which I will post up here FTR as soon as he himself exhibits this very common cognitive deficiency of objectification or reification... so stand by for that...

The academe of cognitive "science" has no small culpability in all of this "out of money!" cognitive deficiency we witness everyday... I wonder if one weekend, the NFL would actually come out and say they were "out of points!" if the academe's cognitive "scientists" would even say anything corrective to the NFL...  you have to think they really might not say anything..




3 comments:

Marian Ruccius said...

Absolute nonsense (fair notice -- I am a christian).

Certain atheists have been trying, unsuccessfully, for about a decade to cast doubt on the existence of a historical Jesus (the issue of his divinity and message are other matters). But no serious historian accepts the argument -- Jesus's existence being the best documented event in ancient history. John Lennox absolutely destroyed Richard Dawkins over this in a debate some years ago -- you can find it on youtube

Matt Franko said...

Well sure Marian but how about Pinker here appearing ignorant of the cognitive aspects of Jesus teaching method vs Paul’s teaching method????

Pretty bad imo...


Matt Franko said...

Taleb weighing in too:

https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1067040410269351936?s=21