Evil is a metaphysical reality. It is built into the structure of the universe. That's the way the universe was made.

邪恶是一种超自然的存在，它是宇宙构造的组成部分,宇宙就是这样的。

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To say that there is evil in any institution is only to say that it is a human institution."

如果说邪恶一定存在于某一种制度中,那一定是在人们心中

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So, one of the things I've tried to claim in describing Genesis 1 is That in this story evil is represented not as a physical reality.

我在描述《创世纪》第一章中试图做的是,在这个故事中，邪恶并不是一种实体的存在。

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How can an all-powerful, good God allow so much evil to exist and even go unpunished?

怎么可能，一个万能的，善良的上帝会允许邪恶的存在，甚至不受到惩罚呢？

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Evil is a moral and not a metaphysical reality.

邪恶是道德上而非哲学上的存在。

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So, the Garden of Eden story communicates what Kaufman would identify as a basic idea of the monotheistic worldview: That evil isn't a metaphysical reality, it's a moral reality.

因此，伊甸园的故事里传达了Kaufman所说的,基本的一神论世界观：,邪恶并不是形而上学的存在，而是道德的现实。

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