Some scholars believe that Yahweh was originally a tribal deity—a god whom the Hebrews worshiped and considered superior to the pagan gods.

一些学者认为耶和华最初是一个部落神——希伯来人崇拜的神，并认为他比异教神更优越。

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There he has continued, praying like a Methodist: only the deity he implored in senseless dust and ashes; and God, when addressed, was curiously confounded with his own black father!

他就在那儿待着，像个美以美会教徒似的祈祷着，不过他所祈求的神明只是无知觉的灰尘而已；而上帝，在他提及的时候，是很古怪地跟他自己的黑种父亲混在一起！

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It was the beginning of a new concept and understanding of the deity, which created a new flow energy that laid a foundation for the recognition of the One God.

这是一个对于“神”新的概念和认知的开始，这创造了新的能量流动为了承认“一个上帝”的认知而铺下了基础。

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It rejects the pagan idea of a realm beyond the deity, the source of mythology and magic. The affirmation that the will of God is supreme and absolutely free is a new and non-pagan category of thought".

这推翻了异教中的观点，即存在超越神性的，作为神话和巫术之源的领域，上帝的意愿是无上,并且绝对自由的，这一论断,是一个全新的且与异教思想无关的内容，“

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We don't have the image of this as a throne with the ark as God's footstool. So it seems to be a greater abstraction of the deity.

我们也没有看到王冠和约柜作为上帝脚凳的画面,因此这似乎是对神的进一步抽离。

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But Genesis 2 refers to the deity as a name that's really a combination, Lord God it's Yahweh Elohim, so you'll see '"Lord God" right?

但是《创世纪》2中的神是个综合体，他叫Yahweh，Elohim，我们翻译为？

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The news of the two consultations has been welcomed by the British Humanist Association (BHA), a charity which campaigns for an end to any mandatory promise to God or another deity or religion.

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For one, though the presiding deity of the Juna Order for men is Dattatreya, (a three-faced minor god) we are thinking of incorporating Dattatreya's mother Anusuya as our presiding deity.

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Some members of the public joked about wearing masks and goggles to brave the incense fumes and smog to pray for blessings from the God of Wealth, an especially popular deity during Chinese New Year, the newspaper notes.

BBC: China media: Wukan frustration