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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Thank God. And even blind children, children blind from birth, will smile.

谢天谢地，即使盲童，天生的盲童，也会微笑。

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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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