The Nature and Function of Divine Images

Dan O'Brien: We're going to talk about some pretty heavy stuff I think here today and let's ease into it by actually going to a biblical passage that you mentioned. He says Moses seems to be equating the movement of the Ark with the activity of God themselves. And this overlaps with a big discussion that's been going on in a seriology for a while, he says. How do we make sense of how they are treating divine images as the deity and simultaneously as not the deity? That's what I was going to say is it sort of violates in our kind of Western modern thinking, the law of non-contradiction, that it can't both be identified