We all have our version of trying to wrestle with this: if God knows what you're going to do tomorrow, to what extent does it make sense to say that what you do tomorrow you do freely?

我们都有自己试图解决这个问题的方式：,如果上帝压根儿就知道我们明天要做什么，那么，说着明天会自由的从事自己想做的事情,究竟又有什么意义呢？

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What does it mean to do anything in a world in which God seems to be so entirely in control of all of our doings and of our actions?"

在一个上帝似乎控制了,我们所有的活动的世界里,我们做那些事又有什么意义？“

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What does that mean? God is just a toy? God is a children's story?

这是什么意思？，上帝是个玩具？，上帝是个儿童故事？

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After each act of creation what does God say?

当每一项创造工作完成后，上帝说了什么呢？

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For Stevens, when modernity takes away God what it does is unveil the poet's Godlike powers, a power to create the world through imagination, imagination which created God in the first place.

对他而言，当现代性取代了上帝的地位,它所起的作用就是解释诗人所有的神明般的力量，这是一种在想象中重塑世界的力量，这种想象最初创造出了上帝。

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And of course the all important question even though political philosophers and political scientists rarely pronounce it ? namely quid sit deus what is God? Does he exist?

当然还有最重要的问题,就算是政治哲学家和,政治科学家都很难做出判断的问题,即quid，sit，deus？上帝是啥？祂存在吗？

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