It's going to lead to a lot of interesting things. It's also going to create a really huge problem for monotheistic thought they're going to struggle with for centuries and actually still do struggle with today.

并会引发一系列的有趣事件，它也将给一神论思想,带来一个相当大的问题，这个问题,他们纠结了好几个世纪，直到现在依然存在。

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And it's that picture of the universe, Kaufman wants to argue, that is challenged by the monotheistic revolution. Again he sees this as a revolution of ancient Israel.

考夫曼提出，正是这个宇宙的大致框架，受到了来自一神论革命的挑战，在考夫曼看来,这是古以色列的一次革命。

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To write any kind of epic at all might very well seem to be embracing an inappropriately sensual paganism at the expense of the higher discipline of good, old-fashioned monotheistic Christianity.

不论你想写好任何形式的史诗,你都要接受一些不太恰当的异教信仰,违反一些基督教中好的教条，和过时的一神论思想。

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Now since God is himself the transcendent source of all being and since he is good, in a monotheistic system there are no evil agents that constitute a realm that opposes God as an equal rival.

因为上帝的力量超越万物,也因为他是上帝，在一神论体系中没有恶灵,能够形成一个可与他相抗衡的领域。

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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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