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Aug 2017
2h 38m

Walking With God: Noah and the Flood

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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Lecture 7 in the Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories Lecture Series. Life at the individual and the societal level is punctuated by crisis and catastrophe. This stark truth finds its narrative representation in the widely-distributed universal motif of the flood. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 
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