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12 Rules for Life

Before Jordan Peterson wrote his book 12 Rules for Life God had already given us 12 Rules for Life.

They include dressing and keeping^[1] the garden which seems to be the whole planet and to not eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil but learn to depend upon the tree of life. He followed those up with 10 more statements of how the universe of cause and effect work. Jesus would eventually sum those 10 statements up into just 2.^[2]

But still Peterson's book is food for thought and we have shared a Kingdom take on that text.

Outline of the book:

1. Stand up straight with your shoulders back

2. Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping

3. Make friends with people who want the best for you

4. Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today

5. Do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them

6. Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world

7. Pursue what is meaningful (not what is expedient)

8. Tell the truth – or, at least, don't lie

9. Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don't

10. Be precise in your speech

11. Do not bother children when they are skateboarding

12. Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street

↑ Genesis 2:15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
↑ Matthew 22:37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second [is] like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.