Would an omnipotent, would a truly all-powerful God actually doubt the extent of His own empire?

一个全能的，真正无所不能的上帝,怎么会怀疑他自己的王国的范围呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

God was so afraid of us that He actually doubted His hold on His own empire, an empire that He was only actually able to maintain because of good luck or something like superior military firepower, but certainly nothing as grand and as absolute as omnipotence."

上帝是如此害怕我们,都开始怀疑自己能否驾驭自己的帝国了，他维系这个帝国,靠的是运气或者是强大的火力，绝非是靠什么伟大的无所不能的神力“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

For men, being all the workmanship of one omnipotent, and infinitely wise maker," Namely God, "They are His property, whose workmanship they are, made to last during His, " not one another's pleasure."

既然人类都是无所不能和无限智慧的，创世主的创造物“，也就是上帝，“他们就是他的财产，是他的创造物，他要他们存在多久就存在多久，由不得他们自己作主“

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You can be a product of the Enlightenment, with a faith in reason, and not become a Romantic who begins to believe in the possibilities of man, or even the perfectibility of man.

你是启蒙运动的产物,带着对理智的信心,而不是相信一个,相信人类无所不能,甚至人的完善性的浪漫主义者

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Christianity's main roots were in Judaism, a religion that worshipped a single, all powerful deity, who is sharply separated from human beings, makes great moral demands upon them, and judges them all, even kings and emperors.

基督的主要来源是犹太教,这种宗教崇拜单一的,无所不能的神,它独立于人类而存在,作出种种道德要求和评判,即使君主和帝王也不例外

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