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The Call to Abraham

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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To Be Wrong Is to Miss the Bullseye

To be wicked is to aim at what you know you shouldn't aim at. And we're thinking about that metaphorically because you've got to think about all the ways that you could miss the bullseye, right? You could close your eyes. That's very common. But I also like the archery metaphor because human beings are built on a hunting platform and we always aim at things. We have to aim at something and then move towards it. To sin is to miss the mark, is to fail to take aim, to aim badly, to aim carelessly, or to not aim at all. It says, well, that's like a sin of omission. That's to

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