So although a stone by itself could never just think, if God could implant in the stone the power of thought, why not?

因此，尽管石头本身不能思考，但是，如果上帝可以赋予石头思考的能力，为什么不呢？

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God wants us to know him; but he wants an intimate relationship with us, not just a surface one.

上帝希望我们来感知他的存在；但是他希望我们之间是一个亲密的关系，而不仅仅是一个表面上的。

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It's just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil.

会有邪恶只是因为心中没有上帝，就像黑暗与寒冷一样，邪恶是人类所创造的一个名词，用来描述心中没有上帝的情况。

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What he does not know, but is about to learn, is that he is a demi-god: the child of a human mother and a god and not just any god.

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Socrates seems, or could be seen, to be speaking not just ironically but provocatively in describing himself as a gift of the god.

苏格拉底的言论似乎，或可说看起来不只讽刺,而且挑衅意味十足地将自己,形容成是上帝的恩典。

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Sometimes it makes American religious belief look unsophisticated and jejune - in fact it merely represents, it seems to me, a truth about the nation: the search for God is not just a search in the lazy passive European way: it is a search with an end in sight.

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For Margaret Barker, a Methodist scholar, part of the faith's power lies in its insistence that prophecy and divine revelation did not just happen once, a long time ago: the flow of messages from God is still in progress.

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But the problem is, the president's new powers make him almost like a god and we are asked to "trust" that he will not misuse them just because he says so.

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