You're listening to the ancient tradition. A Wonk Media production. Music provided by Joseph McDade. Here's your host, Dr. Jack Logan.

Welcome to the ancient tradition.

I'm Jack Logan.

Welcome to all of you.

Welcome to all of the listeners listening in.

Are you new listeners? I'm sure there's plenty. And all of you long-time listeners, thanks for sticking with us. For you new listeners, I just want to give you a quick heads up at how the program is kind of organized. It's set up to be progressive, which means that each episode kind of builds off the previous episode.

And the hope is that we get this really comprehensive understanding of the theology that we see showing up in the ancient records.

So you can listen in on this one,

but I recommend if you have got the time to go back and give a listen to the previous episode

so you get the full picture.

So let's jump into today's episode.

It's titled, Who is God?

A glorious being of ineffable light.

In our last episode, we started looking into the ancient record to see if we could learn about who God is.

And the reason that we're doing this is because the things that we learned about God in the last

episode and the things that we're going to learn about God in this episode are indispensable

to an understanding of what happens next in the creation accounts.

We've kind of put those on hold a little bit so that we can develop this,

but we're going to return to the creation in our next episode.

So this is a precursor to kind of get us ready to understand what happens next.

In the last episode, we learned from the ancients that God is the Lord of Ma'at or the king of Zedic.

In both of these words, Ma'at and Zedic, mean about the same thing.

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