So that even a text like the Decalogue, which is represented as being the unmediated word of God, can appear in more than one version.

因此，即使像十诫这种被认为是,直接来自上帝的话语也可以以不止一种版本出现。

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People are already shaking their heads over me and any immediate God further professional use on my part of the word "God" except as a familiar, healthy American expletive will be taken or rather confirmed as the very worst kind of name dropping and a sure sign that I'm going straight to the dogs.

人们经常对我表示不同意，以及对,我一用那个字“,除非作为熟悉的健康的美式感叹词或咒骂词时,它们会被认为是最差的名字,也肯定是我向那些狗前进的标志。

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It wants us to conceive of God as an uncontested god who through the power of his word or will creates the cosmos.

它希望我们构想一个毫无争议的上帝,他可以通过言语和意愿的力量创造宇宙。

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Each of these phenomena he says is transformed by the basic Israelite idea of one supreme transcendent God whose will is absolute and all of these things relate to the direct word and will of God.

所有的这些现象都随着以色列一神论概念的建立而改变,只有一位至高无上的上帝，他的意愿是不能被人改变的,世间万物都随上帝的意愿而生。

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The Deuteronomist makes it clear that God's great love should awaken a reciprocal love on Israel's part, love of God. Love of God here really means loyalty. The word that is used is a word that stresses loyalty.

申命记清楚的要求上帝的爱应当唤起,以色列人对他的回应上帝的爱在这里事实上,意味着忠诚爱这个词被用在这里强调忠诚。

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Nature also is not divine. It's demythologized, de-divinized, If that's a word; the created world is not divine, It is not the physical manifestation of various deities, an earth god, a water god and so on.

自然是没有神性的，它是没有神话色彩也没有神性的，如果可以这样说的话，被创造出来的世界并不神圣，它并不是众神实体的显形，是一个土地神或者水神或者诸如此类。

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