This is a time-honored argument for the existence of a God who created human beings in his image and imbued them with a moral sense, as well as the free will to follow, or ignore, it.

这是一个关于上帝存在与否的历史悠久的争论，传说上帝凭想象创造了人类，然后给人类注入了道德意识，也作为一种遵循或忽视的自由意志放在那儿。

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They were very often associated with blind forces of nature with no intrinsic moral character, he says. And the god of Israel was understood to transcend nature and his will was not only absolute, it was absolutely good and moral.

他们与自然的力量相关,没有内在的品德，而以色列的上帝,被认为是超越自然地存在，他的意愿不仅是绝对的，而且是绝对正确和道德的。

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And the drama of human life should revolve not around the search for eternal life but around the moral conflict and tension between a good god's design for creation and the free will of human beings that can corrupt that good design.

而关于人类生命的戏剧,不应该围绕于对永生的追寻,而是道德的冲突和紧张状态，在上帝创造的美好,和人类能腐蚀这种美好创造的自由意志间的冲突。

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And so the pagan picture of an amoral universe of just competing powers, good and evil, Kaufman says, is transformed into a picture of a moral cosmos. The highest law is the will of God and that imposes a morality upon the structure of the universe.

在异教观念中，一个充满了权力斗争，善神与恶神对抗的，非道德宇宙，变成了,一个道德的宇宙，上帝的旨意是最高的法律,它给宇宙的结构添加了道德这一概念。

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