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The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Is There a Good God?

The existence of good and evil allows for freedom of choice. And then, if the choice is always towards the good, then you have the benefits of freedom of choice plus the benefits of the good. The only price you have to pay is the constant possibility of evil. It's very much like the structure of christianity. So you have the highest god, whose whose highest son is christ, but you have the figure of the satan lurking in the background,. who's also got a filial relationship with the highest god. it makes for confusing kind of theology. Because since god is everything, then it's very difficult to make the case that the evil spirit isn't a derivative of

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