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Adam and Eve: Self-Consciousness, Evil, and Death

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The God in the Awwas Is a Sort of Meta Person Am

The pentateuch contains five books, genesis, exodus, leviticus, numbers and deuteronomy. It's strongly anthropomorphic. So the god in the awwas to count, is, for all intents and purposes, a sort of meta person am. And maybe we had to imagine god in that form before we could understand how sacrifice can be used to bargain with the future.

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