We Who Wrestle with God The Benevolent Father and His Fallen Children

He's got this new book, We Who Wrestle With God.

I've been reading the gospel of st. Matthew I'm I'm writing a book at the moment called we who wrestle with God and one of the things Christ says to people continually is to not damage their vision is to not put that's the best way of putting it don't occlude your eye you can see what's in front of you if you're willing to see it and if you're willing to see it the terrible many of the terrible obstacles in life you can just walk around but if you blind yourself purposefully to follow your own narrow self-serving delusion you're going to run into terrible things and terrible people and the terrible part of your own soul all the time that's what you should be afraid of but the best thing that you can hope for if you do do that is to fluke success living somebody else's life right right great wonderful yeah exactly you get to be you get to be a successful fraud

I'm very excited about this new book I'm hoping it'll be the best book that I've ever written it's it's going to be more difficult book than the last two were but not as difficult as maps of meaning which means to consume yeah it's it's it's more it's heavy it's it's deeper have you been fighting with trying to make it accessible no not really right i've been i've been i've been just trying to lay the argument out as clearly as i can like and i think that'll do the trick and i i i have to go over it again and edit it and make sure that it's no more obscure than is absolutely necessary no i want to lay it out so that it's comprehensible and i've had a lot of success with the biblical ventures that i've already embarked on i did a series on genesis in 2017 which turned out to be quite influential and then i just did a seminar on exodus with a group of thinkers and i know there's a hunger for analysis of deep stories and i also have good people around me that can help me grind my way through the stories and understand them and so i'm very much looking i've been having quite a good time writing this book actually it's very difficult to write but it's been extremely exciting and interesting and i'm hoping you asked me earlier what would i consider success with this book i don't think that you'll be able to read this book and understand it and be atheistic i think i can demolish the atheistic argument permanently and it's partly it's a weird thing because it's not like all of a sudden people are going to throw themselves at the feet of god in worship it's like it requires a reconsideration of what we mean by belief and i walked through some of it it's like do you believe in the good well there the difference between believing in good and believing in god is it's a very narrow difference now there are important differences but it's still a narrow difference and the thing is if you don't believe in the in good you're aimless and if you're aimless you're hopeless and if you're aimless and hopeless you're anxious and fractionated and people can't unite in their beliefs like the alternative is not good reversing the enlightenment is no small task well hopefully we can save the best of the enlightenment as well it's like uh the uh chested and fence of chested and fence like how many how many different fences are in the field so to speak and if we've thrown this one out and we're trying to plug it back in but which bit of it's going back in the ground things that's very interesting and i think i think people like dawkins have started to realize this and i know that people like douglas murray and i on her c alie and neil fergusson have recognized this is that with the death of god many other things die things you don't expect and one of the things that dies when god dies is science and no one expected that how so because science as a practice is a religious practice it's predicated on religious axioms is it well you have to believe that there's such a thing as truth you have to believe that the truth is understandable you have to believe that understanding the truth is good you have to believe that there is such a thing as good right so imagine to be a scientist you have to imagine that first of all that the world is comprehensible to the human intellect but more that if you investigate the mysteries of the material world that that will be beneficial right those aren't scientific claims those are metaphysical claims and that metaphysical claim is nested in a story you know and the the enlightenment types they've portrayed the scientific revolution as something contrary to the religious substrate and that's not accurate that's a french revolution that's a luciferian intellect history it's not true the universities grew out of the monasteries that's where the universities came from and science as a widespread enterprise got its start in the universities and they grow to the monasteries that's not questionable like if you go to harvard or if you go to oxford and cambridge it's just starkly evident the layout of the of the colleges is a monastic layout so the idea that there is some fundamental contradiction between religious belief and the scientific enterprise it's it's there's nothing about that that's true and part of the reason that we're loo part of the really reason that we're losing the scientific enterprise right now is because we've unmoored it from its metaphysical substrate and it can't survive if you're going to be a scientist you have to put the truth above all else scientists are very rare you have to believe in the truth to be a scientist i think docens believes in the truth by the way so he's an atheist but a very he's much less of an atheist than he thinks that's my impression lying scientists are atheistic or just malevolent docens is a truthful scientist and insofar as he's pursuing the truth and insofar as he believes that pursuing the truth will set you free then he's walking down a path that's christian to its core now i know he doesn't like that idea but he also doesn't like the fact that the scientific enterprise seems to be collapsing in terms of it's what would you call reliability and validity everywhere so

Sorry, I don't want to derail you from your tangent but that's one of the passages that I've concentrated a lot in this new book that I've just finished, We Who Wrestle with God because that equation that Christ manages with his identification with the serpent in the desert, that is so stunningly brilliant that I cannot possibly imagine how anyone could have thought it up.

It's a hypothesis that I've developed fairly extensively but I'm working on in detail in the new book that I'm working on right now called We Who Wrestle With God.

We don't expect in the world, we desire, we desire, right. Our expectations are specified by our desires and that's a useful twist because it brings in, it integrates motivation.

Well, I'm writing, as I mentioned, a book on... on... on explication of biblical narrative. It's called We Who Wrestle With God, and I've been working... Oh, nice pun on Israel. Yes, yes, right, exactly, exactly. And I discovered that relationship when I did the lectures... lectures on Genesis in 2017. So I've been kind of trying to come up with a technique... technical definition of the sacred, right?

And I've been working... on... on... on explication of biblical narrative. It's called We Who Wrestle With God, and I've been working...

So I spent a lot of time recently writing this book, "We Who Wrestle with God" and one of the chapters in that book deals with the story of Abraham.

I'm writing this book called We Who Ressel with God and I was writing about Noah the story of Noah today you know and there's a scene after the arc comes to rest after the flood Noah plants a vineyard and I guess you know he's had kind of a rough time so he plants a vineyard and he brews up some wine and he gets pretty rip-roaring drunk and one of his sons come in comes into his tent and Noah is there passed out and he's naked and instead of covering him up and shutting the hell up about it this son called ham goes and tells his brothers that you know dads made a fool of himself and sort of gets them to come in hypothetically to poke fun at him and instead the other brothers come in with their backs turned and cover him up and then so the story goes the descendants of ham become the slaves the servants and the slaves of the sons who covered up their father and the idea there no this is kind of far afield from what you pointed out but the idea there is that if you don't have a certain degree of respect or even reverence for your father despite his shortcomings which we all have then you're doomed to a useless life and people who are respectful will dominate over you because they'll be you know their lives will go right because they're in accordance with tradition

Yeah well you see that that's very interesting observation because I've just written a new book called We Who Wrestle with God and it comes out November 12th and what it it's a it's a journey through the characterizations of god in 10 old testament stories about 10 there's uh there's some forays into new testament material but I'm saving most of that for another book

Yeah, yeah, so I'm writing this book called We Who Ressel with God and I'm obviously animated by the same spirit, so to speak, that you are because the books parallel each other quite remarkably.

...I've been working on this idea in my new book it's called We Who Ressa With God...

...that's why my the name of my next book by the way is we who wrestle with God...

I have a new book coming out in November and I actually drew somewhat heavily on Richard Dawkins for parts of the book.

Dawkins makes a strong case and repeats it again in his newest book which is just out that the an organism, any biological organism has to be a microcosm of its environment, has to be a model.

So I've written a new book called We Who Wrestle with God, which will be out in mid-November.

there's a very old idea and I elucidated it in some detail in this new book I wrote this we who wrestle with God that the way you become immune to the poison of the worst serpents is by looking at the things you least want to look at

in this new book i wrote this we who wrestle with god that the way you become immune to the poison of the worst serpents is by looking at the things you least want to look at

I have a book coming out November called We Who Wrestle with God.

I would like to think that the work that I've done, particularly in my book, Maps of Meaning, in We Who Wrestle with God, I'm working on that as well in a new book called The Foundation of the World, which is an analysis of the gospel stories, is a continuation of that integration tradition.

I elaborated on those theses in my book, We Who Wrestle with God, and I'm writing about it now.

I would like to think that the work that I've done, particularly in my book, Maps of Meaning, in We Who Wrestle with God, I'm working on that as well in a new book called The Foundation of the World...

I elaborated on those theses in my book, We Who Wrestle with God, and I'm writing about it now.

So obviously, I've seen your latest work on We Who Wrestle With God.

In this new book I wrote, We Who Wrestle With God, one of the things I pointed out was that the God of the Old Testament, and this continues in the New Testament as well, is characterized very fundamentally in multiple ways, but one of those ways, one of the cardinal ways that he's characterized is as the voice of conscience.

My new book, We Who Wrestle With God, is part of that enterprise.

I review them in this new book I wrote on We Who Wrestle With God.

He said his new book, We Who Wrestle With God, came out on November19th and he took apart a sequence of Old Testament stories and explained them in a way that was both profound and practically applicable.

He encouraged listeners to pick up the book if they were inclined.

my wife and I are going back out on tour for my new book, We Who Wrestle With God.

this is my new book, which is coming out on the 19th. And so, we wrestle with God. And so, I'm making a case in this book fundamentally that, well, we talked about the relationship between story and perception. But I'm trying to explain in this book why the notion of sacrifice is the central story in the biblical corpus, making the case that sacrifice is equivalent to work and that sacrifice is by necessity the foundation of the community, that those two things are so tightly associated that they're equivalent.

So yeah, so I just got this today. This is coming out November 19th, We Who Wrestle With God.

I mean, for example, I counted up in your book, We Who Wrestle With God, the number of references to Cain.

We who struggle with God, we wrestle with God, we wrestle with God.

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