The only relationship that will work with humans is perhaps one in which there is a balance between unchecked independence and blind obedience, And God seems to find that relationship with Jacob.

唯一与人类建立的有效关系也许是,存在着某一平衡的关系,不受遏制的独立与盲目信仰之间的平衡，上帝好像在雅各布那里找到了这种关系。

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When Abraham prepares to slaughter his own son, Perhaps God sees that blind faith can be as destructive and evil as disobedience, So God relinquishes his demand for blind obedience: he stops Abraham himself.

当亚伯拉罕准备屠杀他的亲生儿子时，上帝也许发现了盲目信仰,会与叛逆一样具有毁灭，一样邪恶，因此上帝放弃了对盲目信仰的要求：,他自己阻止了亚伯位罕。

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