Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

And tohu v'bohu means something like formless potential.

The Spirit of God is that which wrestles with, which confronts and...

battles and differentiates formless chaos into the manifest structures of the world.

Okay.

Now, and you're made in that image.

What does that mean?

Well, it's a claim about the fundamental structure of reality itself.

And it's not a materialist claim, not in the least.

First of all, it claims the existence of something that in some sense is non-material.

And I would say the closest straightforward word we have of understanding what that is, is consciousness.

That's the brute fact of your awareness.

But more than that, the brute fact of the fact that your awareness is integrally involved with the fact of being itself.

And more, and more, that the being of your consciousness gives rise to the world.

Okay, so let's just take that apart for a minute.

You follow along with me, and you tell me what you think about this.

What is it that faces you when you wake up in the morning?

That's the dawn of the new day, right?

God creates the world in seven days, units of time.

You wake up in the morning when the sun rises and the light reappears.

What confronts you in the morning?