At each cross-section, people are either willing to use a certain sign in a certain way or they're not.

在每一个横街面上，人们可以自由的,以自己的方式使用符号。

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And why is that? Within the perspective of Milton's free-will theology, sin can't exist as an external reality.

为什么呢？从弥尔顿自由意志的学说的角度来看，原罪是不可能以永久现实的形式存在的。

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God learned immediately after creating this unique being, that he will exercise his free will against God.

上帝在创造了这种独特的生命后马上意识到，他们将会以自由意志违抗上帝。

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Surely, you would all agree that we shouldn't put the right to individual liberty up to a vote.

选民们，你们肯定都赞同,不该以投票来决定个人自由。

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Nature gave each individual the right to life, liberty, property, and nobody could take these away legitimately.

自然赋予每个个体以,生命权,自由权和财产权,没有人有权力剥夺

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I simply want to point out enough about the problem to help you see why I don't think free will is a slam-dunk for the soul.

我只是想尽可能地,把这个问题提出来,以帮助你们认识到,为什么我不认同自由意志是灵魂的制胜利器

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He taught the priority of rights over duties and he argued that the sovereign should serve the lowly interest or the lowly ends of providing peace and security, leaving it to individuals to determine for themselves how best to live their lives.

他主张权力应优先于义务,主张君主应当,尽最大可能缔造和平,以保证人民的安全，主张让给人民自由,让他们决定自己的生活方式。

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As you'll see in Book Seven, the book of the Creation, he gives it a liberty to organize itself into the order of the created world -- a freedom to create itself.

在第七卷，描写创世纪的那一卷中可看到，上帝赋予了物质组织自己以符合,新世界的自由--创造自己的自由。

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And once we rid ourselves of the burden of historicity, we're free to appreciate the stories for what they are: powerful, powerful narratives that must be read against the literary conventions of their time, and whose truths are social, political, moral and existential.

曾经我们将自己从史实性的负担中解放出来，我们,以故事原本的样子自由地欣赏它们：强大的，强大的叙事,必须能冲破那个时代的文学惯例和社会、政治、,道德及实存的真实而被解读。

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So according to Wellhausen, the early period of ancient Israel must have been characterized by a free, more natural form of religion, an intimate relationship with God, unencumbered or unsullied by the legalistic cultic obsessions of priests and cult.

据Wellhausen，古代以以列早期,一定是以自由自然的宗教形式为特色的，与上帝关系亲密，不受任何阻碍,牧师和仪式痴迷于遵从律法，造成阻碍。

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