So the story of Canaan Abel is of course one of the most known in Scripture.

And so I thought that I would go over the story with you to look at some of the details,

to look at how it relates to the left and the right that I've been talking about in my most recent videos.

But I also want to look at how there is a reflection of this story and a few pagan myths.

And hopefully it would also help you see the manner in which one can look at other stories,

from other cultures, from other myths, and how it can actually give you hints about some of

the biblical structure.

It doesn't compromise it.

It doesn't question the integrity of the biblical story,

but sometimes because it follows similar patterns, it can help us see what is going on in the

biblical stories, see things that we wouldn't have noticed at first glance.

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So I'm going to read the story to start off with.

And of course, I will not go through all the details of the story.

It's a very complex story.

I'm prompted to do this in part because when I was in London last week, I went on stage with Jordan Peterson, and he had spent

the whole time talking about Canaan Abel. And those of you know that Jordan really loves that

story and sees it as a reflection of the pattern of deep resentment which exists in humans. And he

wanted me to do the Q&A at the end. And as he was speaking, I had these images of these three pagan stories that came up in my mind.

And so I asked him about it in the Q&A, and he gave me his answer.

So I'm hoping they're going to publish the talk so you can hear what Jordan's answer was.

But in the meantime, I will give you my own answer and my own, let's say, intuitions about these stories and how they all

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