Jordan B. Peterson

Fatherhood wouldn't work to guide a child into the world if

that relationship spirit wasn't generalizable beyond the confines of the relationship.

And so why isn't the proper metaphor then for us as we move forward in our lives, the same metaphors that we're trying to establish a relationship with the central animating spirit of mankind.

And I think that is the proper, a proper mode of conceptualizing God and that that's actually,

metaphorically reasonable, but also really the most practical thing that you can possibly do.

It's both.

It's both.

It's time for a group hug.

Well, if there was no suffering in the world, you know, there'd be nothing for us that was real to do.

And it's possible that we have something real to do, like real, right down to the core, you know, and that that terrible unjust suffering is terrible and unjust, really, but that we really have the moral obligation to deal with it.

It's not being lifted off our shoulders even by God.

So, all right, so let's move on here.

Exodus 30 and 31 is a reiteration of the building of the sacred space, the ark, the ritual, the layout of the rules for sacrifice.

That happens a couple of times in Exodus, an indication of its importance.

And I suppose the necessity when these are oral books of transmitting the procedural rules, right?

It's an aid to memory, that reiteration.

Now we come to Exodus 32, and as Ben pointed out earlier, the Israelites have just seen this complete miracle of volcanic descent of God in the most blatant possible manner, and it's barely manifested itself before they decide to do something egregious.

I would say we probably do that in our own life all the time, Ben, because...

There are miracles unfolding around us all the time that we're too blind to see.

So we don't even see them when they're there.