In Exodus on Mount Sinai, Yahweh was to appear before the Israelites in a dense cloud. Jordan Peterson likely would have an explanation for this veiled appearance, but it could be that people could not deal with seeing God face to face, revealed as De was in Deself.
We cannot tolerate pure, intimate, direct exposure to God for we are not strong enough, durable enough or conditioned to such divine revelation in person.
Here is that line from The New American Bible: “The Lord also told him, ‘I am coming to you in a dense cloud, so that when the people hear me speaking to you, they may also have faith in you also.”
My response: The people are to have faith in Moses that he is God’s representative or prophet, not to have faith in Moses as a deity to be worship like Yahweh the almighty deity is to be worshiped and to be had faith in.
Here is that line from the Holy Bible (KJV): “And the Lord said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever . . .”
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