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A big thanks to Sam Storms, who gave me permission to create and post this eBook, the source material being from a series of blog posts he made on God’s attributes.
特别感谢萨姆·斯托姆斯（Sam Storms），他允许我制作并发布这本电子书，其原始材料来自他关于神属性的一系列博客文章。
Ronald Nash argues that an “essential” or “necessary” attribute is one that God could not lose and continue to be God.
罗纳德·纳什（Ronald Nash）认为，“本质性的”（essential）或“必要的”（necessary）属性，是神若失去便不再是神的属性。
“Many of the predicates applied to God denote not attributes or essential properties of God but nonessential properties that relate God to His creatures.
“许多应用在神身上的谓词，并非指神的属性或本质性特质，而是指那些将神与祂的受造物联系起来的非本质性特质。
Relational properties like ‘creator’, ‘ruler’, and ‘preserver’ do not denote divine attributes.
诸如‘创造者’（creator）、‘统治者’（ruler）、‘保守者’（preserver）这样的关系性特质，并不指神的神性属性。
A property like ‘being Lord of Israel’ is likewise a nonessential property.
像‘作以色列之主’（being Lord of Israel）这样的特质，同样是非本质性的属性。
It is logically possible that God might not have had this property.
从逻辑上说，神完全可能并不具有这一属性。
He might never have created Israel, or Israel might never have accepted Yahweh as its God.
祂可能从未创造以色列，或者以色列从未接受耶和华为他们的神。
Being Lord of Israel is not essential to the being of God”
作以色列之主，并非神之存在所必不可少的属性。”
(Nash, The Concept of God: An Exploration of Contemporary Difficulties with the Attributes of God [Zondervan, 1983], 16).
（纳什，《神的概念：对当代有关神属性之困难的探讨》，桑德凡出版社，1983 年，第 16 页。）
The Christian world-view is a way of “seeing” and “interpreting” reality through the lens of God’s revelation of Himself in Jesus Christ as found in Scripture.
基督教世界观，是一种借着神在圣经中藉耶稣基督对祂自己的启示，来“看见”并“解释”现实的方式。
What, then, does the Bible tell us is God’s ultimate aim for all that exists and thus the framework within which we must make sense of life?
那么，圣经告诉我们，神对一切存在之物的终极目的是什么？这也就构成了我们理解生命的框架。
To put the same question in other terms:
换一种说法，这同一个问题是：
What is the pre-eminent passion in God’s heart?
在神的心中，至高无上的热情是什么？
What is God’s greatest pleasure?
神最大的喜悦是什么？
How does the happiness of God manifest itself?
神的幸福是如何彰显出来的？
In what does God take supreme delight?
神在什么事上得着至高的喜悦？
I want to suggest that the pre-eminent passion in God’s heart is his own glory.
我要提出的是，神心中至高无上的热情乃是祂自己的荣耀。
God is at the center of his own affections.
神是祂自己情感的中心。
The supreme love of God’s life is God.
神生命中至高的爱就是神自己。
God is pre-eminently committed to the fame of his name.
神至高地委身于祂自己名的声誉与尊荣。
God is himself the end for which God created the world.
神自己就是神创造世界的目的。
Better, still, God’s immediate goal in all he does is his own glory.
更确切地说，神在一切作为中的直接目标乃是祂自己的荣耀。
God relentlessly and unceasingly creates, rules, orders, directs, speaks, judges, saves, destroys and delivers in order to make known who He is and to secure from the whole of the universe the praise, honor and glory of which He and He alone is ultimately and infinitely worthy.
神不懈且不止息地创造、治理、安排、引导、说话、审判、拯救、毁灭并施行拯救，为要使人认识祂是谁，并从整个宇宙中得着那惟独祂最终且无限配得的赞美、尊荣与荣耀。
According to the Westminster Confession of Faith, ‘The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.’
按照《威斯敏斯特信条》（Westminster Confession of Faith）， “人的首要目的就是荣耀神，并以祂为乐，直到永远。”
At the heart of the Christian world-view is the fact that ‘-The chief end of God is to glorify God and to enjoy himself forever.’
而在基督教世界观的核心，有这样一个事实：“——神的首要目的就是荣耀神，并以祂自己为乐，直到永远。”
Table of Contents
目录
Our Knowledge of God
我们对神的认识
Classifying the Attributes
神属性的分类
The Glory of God
神的荣耀
The Trinity
三位一体
The Holiness of God
神的圣洁
The Omnipotence of God
神的全能
The Sovereignty of God
神的主权
The Immutability of God
神的不变性
The Omnipresence of God
神的无所不在
The Love of God
神的爱
The Fatherhood of God
神的父性
The Name of God
神的名
Justice and Wrath
公义与忿怒
Is the God of Love also a God of Wrath?
慈爱的神也是忿怒的神吗？
God is a Jealous Lover!
神是忌邪的爱者！
The Omniscience of God
神的全知
APPENDIX
附录
10 Things You should Know about the Immutability of God
你应当知道的关于神不变性的十件事
10 Things You should Know about God’s Omnipresence
你应当知道的关于神无所不在的十件事
10 Things You should Know about God’s Omniscience
你应当知道的关于神全知的十件事
10 Things You should Know about the Wrath of God
你应当知道的关于神忿怒的十件事
Ten Things To Know About God’s Sovereignty
关于神主权应当知道的十件事
10 Things You should Know about God’s Will(s)
你应当知道的关于神旨意（Will(s)，指单一或多重旨意之区分）的十件事
Are There Two Wills in God?
神里面是否有两个旨意？
Divine Decrees
神的预旨
Regeneration and Sovereignty of God
重生与神的主权