Jordan B. Peterson

So it's not just metaphor, right?

Even though it might also be metaphor.

Is there also not the point that we've seen in our reading

the stress upon the goodness of God.

So there's an anti-legalism there, that these are not just prescriptions from a sort of super-celestial tyrant, but the prescriptions are emerging out of the benevolence, out of the goodness of God.

In relationship.

Yes.

And one of the

One of the key themes in the medieval theological tradition in the West is the idea that goodness is expansive.

So just as human sinfulness is curved in on itself,

is that of the expanding, of the expansion of love.

I mean, the Latin tag, the bonum diffusivum sui.

If you imagine that you want to prepare your son to thrive in the world, well, what you do is you try to establish a great relationship with him.

Right?

I mean, every father knows that.

You want to establish a great relationship with your son.

And it's not just because you want to have a great relationship with your son.

It's because you assume that if you have a great relationship with your son, he's armed in the proper manner to thrive in the world.

Well, if that's how we train our children to live in the world optimally, then why wouldn't we conceptualize

That's a microcosm of the manner in which life has to be conducted.