Meaningful and generous human life fundamentally depends on allegiance to a highest and eternal value.

“allegiance to that highest and Eternal value is something like Faith it's something like Covenant it's something like the proper aim of life”

God should not be defined as a categorical object within the world but as the act of being itself.

“if you think God is a categorical object in the world eventually you'll say well I I don't see this object and there's no evidence for it and I can explain the world without it so that's why the answer of God in in Exodus is so powerful because he's saying dumb question wrong question”