人们认为信仰就是你不能证明的东西。
专家说,尽管这一发现并不令人惊讶,但这是证明个人信仰延伸至整个社会的一次最大规模的研究。
While the finding is not surprising, experts say that it is the largest study to demonstrate that individual beliefs extend to society as a whole.
对那些犹如兄弟一般却用自己的生命证明信仰必须要卑躬屈膝的人,他可能回答他们说,这种境遇是丢脸的。
To those who, like his brother, prove by their lives that it is essential to humiliate oneself in order to believe, he might reply that the condition is shameful.
So much more important than historical verifiability is the conviction of the ancient Israelites who received and venerated these traditions, and developed them, and embellished them, that God had once acted on their behalf, rescuing them from bondage, binding them to himself in an eternal covenant.
无比史料证明更重要的是,古代以色列人坚定的信仰,他们接受并且崇敬那些传统,将它们发扬,美化它们,认为上帝曾为了他们而行动,将他们从奴役中解救,在永恒的契约中将他们与上帝联系在一起。
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