One of the big problems people face today regarding religion or regarding the notion of God

is a problem that I would call something like the reality of God versus the reality of the world.

And it might seem like an abstract problem, which matters only to theologians,

but it actually ends up manifesting itself in everybody's life, actually, whether you are religious or not. And it ends up manifesting itself in everybody's life, actually, whether you are religious or not.

And it ends up manifesting itself in opposites. So it manifests itself in things like,

for example, in scripture, you have Christ who says something like, call no one on earth

father because God in heaven is your father, you know, or Christ saying things like

no one is good but God. And you'll find many places in Scripture where Christ seems to bring

everything to God and to reduce the world to almost nothing. And then there are other places

in Scripture, for example, where we have

the law of God, where we have the prescription of God, where we have Christ saying, do this in

remembrance of me. Where on the other hand, he seems to be saying that these things are really

important. And so how do we bring this together? How do we make sense of this? And how does it

help us understand some of the discourse that people are using and how we often

feel trapped in opposites sometimes and struggle to find a way out?

So we're going to look at some of this and see how it relates to your everyday life.

This is Jonathan Pajot.

Welcome to the symbolic world. Thank you. So this question is very important today, especially in the kind of cultural battle,

you know, in the cultural war, we can call them. Let me give you a few examples once again,

and you'll see what I'm talking about.

So, for example, a famous verse that is being used very often today is the verse where it says, there's neither Jew nor Greek, slave, nor free, male nor female, for you're all one in Christ Jesus.

And so many people will use that verse to argue for things like, you know,

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