I listened to the soundcloud version of this podcast.
As you were commenting on Marduk’s vulnerability to mortality, I was thinking of Genesis 15:17 (and context). God put his own divine life on the line as collateral in loyalty to the covenant he was making with Abram. How can Yahweh guarantee his part of covenant with his own life?
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I listened to the soundcloud version of this podcast.
As you were commenting on Marduk’s vulnerability to mortality, I was thinking of Genesis 15:17 (and context). God put his own divine life on the line as collateral in loyalty to the covenant he was making with Abram. How can Yahweh guarantee his part of covenant with his own life?