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This is part two of the psychological significance of the biblical story series that's running

throughout the summer. This lecture is entitled, Genesis, Chaos, and Order.

Dr. Peterson will be performing the remainder of the lecture series every Tuesday throughout

the remainder of the summer at the Isabel Baylor Theatre in Toronto. You can find tickets

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Okay, well, I thought this time that I would actually cover some of the biblical stories.

So, and hopefully a number of them. As I said last time, I'm going to go through this,

well as fast as I am able to, I want to do it as complete a job as possible. And of

course, the probability that I'll get through the entire Bible is very low, but we'll

get through a lot of the major stories in the beginning of it, and that's a good start.

And then, you know, assuming that this all goes well, then maybe I'll try to do the same

thing again, either in the fall or next year. So, assuming I'm that everything is still

working out properly next year, it's a long ways away. All right, so I guess we'll

start. So, last week, I talked to you about a line in the New Testament that was from

John, and it was a line that was designed to parallel the opening of Genesis, and it's

a really important line, and I thought I would re-emphasize it, because the Bible is a

book that's been written forward and backwards in time, in some sense, like most books, because

if you write a book, of course, when you get to the end, if you're the writer, you can

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