In the first account in Genesis 1, The creation of human is clearly the climactic divine act: after this God can rest.

在《创世纪》第一章中的第一种描述，人类的创造是上帝最具神性的行为：,在此之后神便可安息。

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And the most important has to do with the nature of the act that leads to the transformation of the human characters.

最重要的一点，是人类听从欲望的驱使,导致了本性的变化。

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First, the fashioning of the human from clay is--again--in that story, The final climactic act of creation is the creation of the female from the male.

首先，用黏土创造人类又一次出现在故事中，创物行动中的高潮是,从男人身体中创造了女人。

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You may think you've gotten away with something, but every act of social exploitation, every act of moral corruption, pollutes the sanctuary more and more until such time as God is driven out entirely and human society is devoured by its own viciousness and death-dealing.

犯了罪的人也许认为自己侥幸逃过一劫，然而他对所作的每一个行为，每一次的道德堕落，都会越来越玷污圣所,知道有一天上帝完全弃圣所而去,人类社会充斥着我们自身的邪恶和毁灭行为。

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