为什么是上帝？因为是上帝、而非我们的对手，决定着谁胜谁负。
Why is he God? Because he decides who wins or loses, not my opponent.
你要知道的，我的家乡每个人的用恐惧来告诉我什么是上帝，并且不让我学习其它了解上帝的途径。
You have to understand, where I come from the people who tried to teach me about God by using fear, also kept me from learning about other paths to God.
翻到第二章彼得，看看信徒彼得对做好准备以及在什么状态下对上帝的来临我们是做好了准备的见解。
Turn to II Peter, and see what the apostle Peter said about being ready and what condition we should be in to be ready for the Lord to come.
-那上帝是公正和完美的仁慈完全不知道他们正在谈论什么。
—that God is perfectly just and perfectly merciful has no idea what they are talking about.
因为上帝是全能的，他想让什么发生都可以，如果有这样的逻辑那就说得通了。
If God wills something to happen then since God is omnipotent it logically follows that it will happen.
这个实验是关于亚当的，上帝创造出来的第一个人，当他看到一个球向另一个球移动的时候，会预测发生什么样的情况呢。
A thought experiment, in which Adam, the first man newly created by God, sees one billiard ball moving towards another, is asked to predict what is going to happen.
那上帝是公正和完美的仁慈完全不知道他们正在谈论什么。
That God is perfectly just and perfectly merciful has no idea what they are talking about.
他感谢了他的支持者，无论是没有什么权力的人(坐在轮椅上的看门人)还是无所不能的人(上帝)。
He thanked supporters both powerless (a janitor with a wheelchair-bound wife) and omnipotent (God).
你有想过提问吗——我的意思是，在你的祈祷中你可以问类似这样的问题吗：上帝啊，你想让我知道些什么？
Have you thought about asking — I mean, in your prayers could you ask something like: 'What would you like me to know, God?
学习你能学习的东西，记住你在学习什么，并注意上帝是如何保佑你的工作。
Learn all you can and remember what you learn and watch how God blesses your work.
这就是为什么我们要学习着去爱上帝，让上帝爱你们是你们人生最重要的目标。
This is why learning to love God and to be loved by him should be the greatest objective of your life.
没错，是上帝，我们在那张纸上，有关于上帝一词的翻译，大写字母G打头的，还有什么其他说法？
Okay, God. We have the word "God" being used I guess in that translation, right, with a capital G. What else is used?
我曾经看到上帝无条件的爱，一种不因为我是谁或者我曾经做什么而受影响的爱，我的心能够说，上帝，我爱您！
But once I saw His unconditional love for me, a love unaffected by who I was and all I had done, my heart was able to say, "Father, I love you."
“无论是死去多年的祖先或是上帝，不管它是什么超自然的代表，如果你相信他们在俯视着你，你的行为就要受到影响，”他说。
"Whether it's a dead ancestor or God, whatever supernatural agent it is, if you think they're watching you, your behavior is going to be affected," he says.
不管原因是什么，这都不能成为一个人放弃追随上帝的理由，上帝是永远也不会改变的。
No matter what the cause, it still does not justify one to abandon the pursuit of a God that never changes.
上帝是不能阻止类似的灾难、或者不屑于管，再或者根本没有什么上帝。
Either God can do nothing to stop catastrophes like this, or he doesn’t care to, or he doesn’t exist.
如果上帝是等待帮助我们，我们为什么不常常向他请求帮助？
If God is waiting to help us, why don't we turn to him more often?
于是，我又问上帝，为什么要给我两个盒子，为什么一个是金色的，一个是黑色带洞的。
”I asked God, why he gave me the boxes, why the gold, and the black with the hole?
上帝是不能阻止类似的灾难、或者不屑于管，再或者根本没有什么上帝。
Either God can do nothing to stop catastrophes like this, or he doesn't care to, or he doesn't exist.
他们的生活中充满了束缚，他们不明白为什么他们的生活中没有快乐，为什么他们的祈祷没有实现，为什么上帝看起来是离他们如此的遥远。
They live their lives in bondage, wondering why there is no joy in life, wondering why their prayers are not answered, wondering why God seems so far away.
斯奥迪斯会被看作是异端思想甚至是亵渎上帝，原因很简单——想想斯奥迪斯假定了什么。
A theodicy can be seen as heretical or even blasphemous for the simple reason that it — think of what it assumes.
上帝并不想要你的金钱，他要的是你的心。他希望你下决心什么时候去给予，以及如何给予。
God doesn't want your money, he wants your heart. He wants you to decide when and how you'll give.
如果上帝是我的父亲，我怎么能不谦逊的询问为什么他没有去营救凯利？
If God is my Father, can't I humbly ask why he did not come to Kelly's rescue?
因此，作为本降临季的开始，我决定谈谈自己为什么把代表动物工作-尤其是养殖动物——看成是上帝的工作的见解。
So, as this Advent season begins, I decided to offer some thoughts on why I view working on behalf of animals — and especially farmed animals — as God's work.
讽刺的是，在一个将上帝假象为充满爱意毫无愤怒的年代里，很少有人能够真正知道上帝之爱究竟是什么。
Ironically, in an age that conceives of God as wholly loving, altogether devoid of wrath, few people really understand what God's love is all about.
例如，一个投机者可能认为上帝就是一个雪球，或艾维斯，或月亮上的某个人——不管是什么——但真正重要的是上帝到底是谁——真理是什么。
For instance, a speculator may think of God as a snow bunny, or Elvis, or the man on the moon - whatever - but the only thing that really matters is who God really is - what matters is the truth.
没有什么东西可以超越感知,是上帝创造了感知,你可以发现那是对怀疑论问题的声援。
There is nothing beyond the perception there is just the perception created by God and you can see that helps in a way with the skeptical problem.
就这样，科学家们经常会产生一种上帝情结：也不知道为什么，他们总是了解他们坚信是正确的理论，不论究竟是什么理论。
Thus, scientists often develop a God complex: they somehow know that whatever theories they hold must be true. They also believe that they can accurately assess the significance of the work of others.
就这样，科学家们经常会产生一种上帝情结：也不知道为什么，他们总是了解他们坚信是正确的理论，不论究竟是什么理论。
Thus, scientists often develop a God complex: they somehow know that whatever theories they hold must be true. They also believe that they can accurately assess the significance of the work of others.
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