The Nature of Reality That You Have to Struggle With

i don't think there's any one who at some point in their life, or perhaps even every day, doesn't at some level wrestle with god. And so it's not like your offered instantaneous, final redemption if you move out forthrightly into the world and attempt to conduct yourself with integrity. But it's your best bet, and it might be good enough. Even if it's not good it's really preferable to the alternative, which seems to be something closely akin to hell, both personal and social. So joseph's father is jacob later israel, he who wrestles with god. It's sort of implicit in what i've been saying, is that