你知道吗，我最近意识到孩子和哲学家有着同样美妙的烦人方式。 You know, I realized recently that kids and philosophers are annoying in the same beautiful way.
好吧，等等，你得给我解释一下。 Okay, wait, you gotta explain that to me.
你是什么意思？ What do you mean?
我七岁的侄子最近问我，为什么小狗会变成大狗？ My seven-year-old nephew recently asked me, why do puppies turn into dogs?
于是我解释了它们是如何长大的，然后他又问，那为什么呢？ So I explained how they grow up, and then he asked again, well, why?
然后他就不停地对我给的每个答案问为什么，没完没了。 And then he just kept asking why to every answer that I gave him, endlessly.
好的，我明白了。 Okay, I get it.
是啊，我有个在大学学哲学的朋友就是这样。 Yeah, I have a friend studying philosophy in college who is just like this.
没错。 Exactly.
孩子和哲学家有很多共同点。 Kids and philosophers have a lot in common.
他们会问为什么，问那些大多数人在日常生活中不会坐下来思考的事情。 They ask why about things most people don't sit around thinking about in their day-to-day life.
世界上最难回答的问题之一就是为什么。 One of the hardest questions in the world is why.
哦，是的，我理解。 Oh yeah, I get that.
我的意思是，哲学在这方面与科学不同。 I mean, philosophy is different in that way from science.
科学在回答如何或是什么这类问题时非常有帮助，但它 无法真正回答这个困难的为什么问题，或者这类问题。 Science is super helpful to answer questions like how or what, but it can't really answer this hard question why, or these types of questions.
我为什么在这里？ Why am I here?
为什么会有任何事物存在？ Why does anything exist?
这些是关于意义和目的的问题，它们是深刻的人性问题。 These are questions of meaning and purpose, and they're deeply human questions.
是啊，我是说，谁的人生中没有经历过小小的存在危机呢？ Yeah, I mean, who hasn't had a mini existential crisis in their life?
是的，没错。 Yeah, exactly.
《公教会教理》第27段解释说，对神的渴望铭刻在人心中，因为人是由神 创造并为神而造的，只有在神里面，人才能找到他不断寻求的真理和幸福。 The Catechism explains in paragraph 27, the desire for God is written in the human heart because man is created by God and for God, and only in God will he find the truth and happiness he never stops searching for.
所以我们总是会问这些大问题，因为我们有对真理和幸福的渴望。 So we're always going to ask these big questions because we have that desire for truth and happiness.
纵观历史，人们一直试图用哲学和宗教信仰及实践来回答这些更深层次的问题。 Throughout history, people have always tried to answer these deeper questions with philosophy and religious beliefs and practices.
事实上，你可以说人类本质上是有宗教性的。 In fact, you can say that humans are religious by nature.
好吧，但这怎么可能呢？ Okay, but how is that possible?
我认识很多人会说他们不信教。 I know a lot of people who would say that they are not religious.
嗯，对神的渴望铭刻在每个人的心中。 Well, the desire for God is written on every human heart.
心？ Heart?
这是什么意思？ Like, what does that mean?
仅仅是我们的情感吗？ Just our emotions?
《公教会教理》使用「心」这个词的方式与圣经使用「心」这个词的方式相同。 The Catechism uses the term heart in the same way that the Bible uses the word heart.
心是我存在的居所。 The heart is the dwelling place where I am.
心是我退隐的地方。 The heart is a place to which I withdraw.
心是我们理性无法完全把握的隐秘中心。 The heart is our hidden center beyond the grasp of our reason.
在那里，我们体验到这些深层的渴望，对意义的深层需求，对爱、幸福、真理、美的渴望。 That's where we experience these deep desires, the deep need for meaning, the desire for love, happiness, truth, beauty.
这些是在此生中永远无法完全满足的深层渴望。 These are deep desires that are never fully satisfied in this life.
这就是为什么我们可以说这些是深层的属灵渴望。 This is why we can say these are deep spiritual desires.
这种普遍性使我们可以说人从根本上是一种宗教性的生物。 It's so universal that we can say we're fundamentally a religious creature.
这就像神在我们心中隐藏了对意义和幸福的寻求，作为一个线索或邀请，让我们寻找他。 It's like God hid this search for meaning and happiness in our hearts as a clue or an invitation to look for him.
人们一直试图回答这些问题，无论你是否意识到，这些问题最终都指向神。 And people have always tried to answer these questions that all ultimately, whether you know it or not, point back to God.
好的，所以我们都有这些渴望，但它们真的能引导每个人到神那里吗？ Okay, so we all have these desires, but can they really lead everyone to God?
《公教会教理》说，神从不停止呼召每个人寻求他，以找到生命和幸福。 The Catechism says God never ceases to call every person to seek him so as to find life and happiness.
但这种对神的寻求要求我们付出全部的智力努力，有健全的 意志，正直的心，以及那些教导我们寻求神的人的见证。 But this search for God demands of us every effort of intellect, a sound will, an upright heart, as well as the witness of others who teach us to seek God.
当我们谈论认识神的方法时，记住这一点很重要。 It's important for us to keep this in mind as we talk about ways we can come to know God.
这些被称为证明。 These are called proofs.
证明？ Proofs?
像是证明神存在的证据吗？ Like proof that God exists?
是的，但这里的证明指的是关于神存在的有力且令人信服的论证。 Yes, but proofs here mean strong and convincing arguments for God.
我们可以在物质世界中找到这些论证，也可以通过内省自己来找到。 We can find the arguments in the physical world and by looking inward at ourselves.
是的，当我环顾世界，特别是大自然时，我能看到如何可能产生神的概念。 Yeah, when I look around the world, especially in nature, I can see how it's possible to come to an idea of God.
我猜这仅仅是运用我的理性。 And I guess that's just using my reason alone.
我观察可见的世界，从而得到神的概念。 I look at the visible world and get the concept of God.
人类可以观察、建立联系，并对周围的世界进行理性思考。 Human beings can observe, make connections, and rationalize the world around them.
猫能做到这一点吗？ Can cats do this?
不能。 Nope.
狗能吗？ Can dogs?
不能，无论它们多么聪明。 No, no matter how smart they are.
作为人类，我们可以真正地反思自己的想法。 As human beings, we can literally reflect upon our own thoughts.
我们可以以其他生物无法做到的方式推理事物。 We can reason out things in a way that other creatures cannot.
这样，我们环顾世界，并问为什么？ In that way, we look around at the world and ask why?
与这些问题的思辨引导我们认识到一位比我们所能看到的一切都更伟 大的神，这就是为什么我们可以说对神的渴望独特地铭刻在人心中。 And wrestling with those questions brings us to the notion of a God who's bigger than everything we can see, which is why we can say the desire for God is uniquely written on the human heart.
好的，所以使我们成为人的是我们会问为什么， 因为我们试图理解神在我们周围创造的世界。 Okay, so what makes us human is that we ask why, as we make sense of the world that God has created around us.
我们是奇特的生物。 We're a strange creature.
我们渴望真理和美，我们有对是非的感知和自由意志。 We desire truth and beauty and we have a sense of right and wrong and free will.
我们有良知和无限的渴望。 We have a conscience and infinite longings.
我们询问关于神存在的问题，我们可以将这些视为我们拥有灵魂的迹象。 We ask questions about God's existence and we can perceive these as signs that we have a spiritual soul.
我们的灵魂只能源于某种无限的、非物质的、超越时间的存在，即神。 Our souls can only have its origin in something infinite, immaterial, and outside of time, God.
所以因为我们有这些渴望和自由意志，这意味着我们是由神创造的？ So because we have these longings and free will, that means we're created by God?
是的，你明白了。 Yes, you got it.
对神的渴望被铭刻、印在每个人的心中。 The desire for God is written, imprinted on every human heart.
我们看到这种渴望体现在我们对世界和自身提出的问题中， 甚至我们提出这些问题的事实本身就暗示可能存在一位神。 We see that desire play out in the questions we ask about the world and ourselves and even the fact that we ask these questions implies that there might be a God.
神部分地在世界和人类身上显明。 God is partially revealed in the world and in the human person.
因此，这被称为自然启示，因为我们可以在自然界和人性中看到神的显明。 For that reason, it's called natural revelation, since we can see God revealed in the natural world and in human nature.
因为我们是由神创造的，我们有能力仅凭理性就知道他是创造的源头。 Because we're created by God, we have this capacity to know that he's behind creation just from reason alone.
我感觉接下来会有一个「但是」。 I feel like there's a but coming.
如果我们仅凭理性就能认识神，为什么不是每个人都认识他，为什么信徒说他们相信神？ If we know God by reason alone, why doesn't everyone know him and why do people of faith say that they believe in God?
那是因为人的理性并不完美。 That's because human reason is not perfect.
有一些挑战需要克服。 There are challenges to overcome.
我们是不完美的。 We are imperfect.
我们有缺陷，我们可以说服自己相信许多不同的事情。 We have flaws and we can convince ourselves of a lot of different things.
所以我们有能力来理解神，但这将是一个挑战。 So we have the capacity to come to understand God, but it's going to be a challenge.
是的，这就是为什么我们发现自己处于这样一种情况 ：神渴望向我们显明自己，而我们却难以找到他。 Yes, which is why we find ourselves in a situation where God desires to reveal himself to us and we have difficulty finding him.
但神想帮助我们认识他，神想更多地揭示我们被创造的目的以及他真正的样子。 But God wants to help us know him and God wants to reveal more about what we're created for and what he is really like.
神还想揭示什么？ What else does God want to reveal?
哦，很多。 Oh, a lot.
神渴望给我们的，比我们仅凭人的理性在自然启示中所能知道的还要多。 God desires to give us even more than what we can come to know by human reason alone in natural revelation.
对神的渴望铭刻在人心中，当我们像孩子和哲学家那样问及我们 的生活和世界的「为什么」时，我们可以看到这种渴望的表现。 The desire for God is written in the human heart and we can see that desire play out when we ask why about our lives and the world like kids and philosophers do.
但神想来迎见他们，我们，每个人，并向我们展示更多。 But God wants to come to meet them, us, everyone, and show us even more.
嗨，我叫艾米丽。 Hi, my name is Emily.
而我叫埃德蒙。 And my name is Edmund.
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是的，我们相信《公教会教理》是渴望向我们启示自己的神的忠实回响。 Yeah, we believe the Catechism is a faithful echo of a God who desires to reveal himself to us.
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