"He created all the legends about himself.He used to say 'never let the truth get in the way of a good story.' But when you're playing him you have to take away all of those just peel him back to try and find the truth."

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God created a good world, But humans in the exercise of their moral autonomy, They have the power to corrupt the good.

上帝创作了一个美好的世界，但人类掌控自己的道德，他们有能力腐蚀美好事物。

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Genesis is concerned to account for the origin of things and wrestles with the existence of evil, the existence of idolatry and suffering in a world that's created by a good god.

创世纪》被认为解释了万物的来源,试图解决罪恶的存在，盲目崇拜的存在以及这个受苦的世界,这是一个善良的神创造的。

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