“那位人的上帝”?或许不了解宗教背景、宗教概念以及宗教语言,还是不要翻译这种段落为好

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a personal God是指人格化的神,是指具有人的特征的神,中文称为位格神,也称人神。基督教和伊斯兰教现在信仰的神,都是personal God.

与personal God相对应的,是impersonal God。有个叫Spinoza的人,有专门著述。Spinoza's God,简单来说,即是a living, natural God.

爱因斯坦信仰的不是a personal God,而是信仰Spinoza's God。

霍金同样不信仰a personal God.

或许网上的这个说法,有助于你理解爱因斯坦所提到的cosmic religion:

Spinoza's system also envisages a God that does not rule over the universe by providence, but a God which itself is the deterministic system of which everything in nature is a part.