Jordan B. Peterson

the instantiation within you of those deep things that would enable you to confront deep catastrophes and prevail and that would be your alliance with truth and with beauty and with justice and with mercy and that if you don't have those things on your side then your lightness of being in the presence of the storms of catastrophe will demolish you, will

No foundation, no house can withstand a storm.

Right, well, and your point is that God is presenting himself and so this is the spirit that brought the Israelites out of tyranny, the spirit that calls forth the people out of tyranny, and also that balance between darkness in the day and light at night.

that's allied into a vision of the same spirit, that's what's the most fundamental.

And, Oz, you pointed out that the word glory itself is rooted in recognition of what's weighty.

I didn't know that.

I didn't know that, by the way.

But there's also a stress here, isn't there, on the personal nature of the deity.

I mean, the Greeks...

had their theology and xenophanes uh is critical of anthropomorphism so uh says that the uh if horses and oxen had gods they'd have gods like horses and oxen so thinking of the divine in a in a quasi-human form is criticized from the very earliest

Greek philosophical tradition.

And in Indic theology, you have this stress upon unchanging being.

But here we have this insistence upon the personal nature of the first principle.

And of course, that's immensely challenging, and that's been

battled over by philosophers and theologians over the centuries, but I think this is a distinctly Hebraic perspective.

Well, it's interesting to think about that biologically in some sense.

I mean, the manner in which we manifest our highest mode of adaptation is as a personality.

So, we bring a personality to the problem of existence, and you would think that that means that

the personality is able to move forward into being because it's the being that a personality can encounter.

Why wouldn't that be something like a relationship?