God has promised at this point, however, not to destroy all humankind again, So he experiments with a single individual of faith.

但是上帝却在这时保证，再也不摧毁全人类，因此他检验了个人信仰。

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And secondly, that the head of each state would have the right to determine the religion of the state, again thus putting an end to the claims of a single universalist church.

第二，每个国家的首脑,都有权决定,国家的宗教，因此终结了,由一种宗教统治全国的局面。

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