They aren't recourse to a separate science or lore or body of knowledge or interpretive craft that calls upon forces or powers that transcend God or are independent of God.

不依赖于某种独立的技术或知识而存在,或者通过某种手段把超越上帝,或者不受上帝控制的力量聚集起来。

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It rejects the pagan idea of a realm beyond the deity, the source of mythology and magic. The affirmation that the will of God is supreme and absolutely free is a new and non-pagan category of thought".

这推翻了异教中的观点，即存在超越神性的，作为神话和巫术之源的领域，上帝的意愿是无上,并且绝对自由的，这一论断,是一个全新的且与异教思想无关的内容，“

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They were very often associated with blind forces of nature with no intrinsic moral character, he says. And the god of Israel was understood to transcend nature and his will was not only absolute, it was absolutely good and moral.

他们与自然的力量相关,没有内在的品德，而以色列的上帝,被认为是超越自然地存在，他的意愿不仅是绝对的，而且是绝对正确和道德的。

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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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