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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He's asking us to imagine God, or perhaps this is God's creative spirit, as some sort of feminine being laying the universal egg and brooding over it until it bursts forth with new life. This is a risk.

他想让我们把上帝，或者说上帝的创造精神，想象成一个产下宇宙之卵并孵伏其上,直到新生命破壳而出的女性形象，这很冒险。

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Final point then is...and we're not going to talk about salvation right now...but we're going to talk about the fact that the only supreme law is the will of God, because God is a creator God rather than a created God. He's imposed order, an order upon the cosmos.

最后一点，我们并不准备马上讲救赎,我们准备讲的事实是唯一的,至高无上的法律就是上帝的意愿，因为上帝是一个创造者,而不是被造出来的上帝，他对宇宙发号施令。

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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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So just as in Genesis 1, the universe is created when the wind of God parts the primeval waters, so in Exodus 14 and 15, a new nation is created when the wind of God parts the waters of the Reed Sea.

就像在《创世纪》1中，当上帝让一阵风吹过远古的水面,宇宙便产生了，所以在《出埃及记》14和15中,上帝让风吹过Reed海时，一个新的国家诞生了。

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