He's spoken of anthropomorphically, so that we can capture his interaction with human beings. This is the only way, Kaufman says, you can write in any meaningful sense about the interaction between God and humanity. So he has to be anthropomorphized.

上帝像人一样说话，这样我们就能和他交流,这是唯一和上帝对话的方式，你可以从各个方面写下上帝与人类的相互作用,因此上帝必须富有人性。

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