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Abraham: Father of Nations

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Idea of the Arc

I've been thinking a lot about this idea of the arc you know and I think I mentioned to you last week that I'd figured out that there is this idea that Noah was perfect in his generations. That meant that he has set his family in order it wasn't just him but he had set hisFamily in order because of that when when the catastrophe came like it comes to everyone he was able to withstand it. It says in the story of Noah that Noah walked with God and then of course Abraham it isn't clear exactly that he's walking with God or before God which we'll get into later. We see this as part of the increasing psychologization of the sacred ideas that were

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