God神

“He who worships the true God detests and loathes idols.” (Spurgeon)
“敬拜真神的人厌恶并憎恨偶像。”（司布真）

(the following is by Don Fortner)

God the Father, in eternity past, before the world began, chose a people whom he determined to save and sovereignly predestinated all things that ever come to pass to secure, absolutely and infallibly, the salvation of his elect people.
圣父在永恒过去，在创世之前，拣选了一群祂决定要拯救的人，并且主权地预定了一切将要发生的事，以绝对且无误地确保祂选民的救恩。

God the Son died upon the cursed tree as their Substitute to “save his people from their sins.” By the satisfaction of divine justice, through the shedding of his blood, Christ has put away the sins of his people and brought in an everlasting righteousness for them.
圣子在被咒诅的十字架上作为他们的替代而死，”要救祂的百姓脱离罪恶。”通过满足神圣的公义，藉着流血，基督已除去祂子民的罪，为他们带来永恒的义。

The Son of God, dying for God’s elect, has effectually obtained eternal redemption for them. Those for whom Christ suffered the wrath of God can never, for any reason or to any degree, suffer God’s wrath. Justice will not allow it!
神的儿子为神的选民而死，已有效地为他们获得永恒的救赎。那些基督为之承受神忿怒的人，永远不会因任何原因或在任何程度上承受神的忿怒。公义不允许这样的事！

God the Holy Spirit regenerates, calls, and preserves each of God’s elect by infallible grace, effectually applying the blood of Christ to those chosen by the Father in eternity and redeemed by the Son at Calvary.
圣灵以无误的恩典重生、呼召并保守神的每一个选民，有效地将基督的宝血施行在那些在永恒中被父所拣选并在各各他被子所救赎的人身上。

This is our God, the effectual, sovereign, saving God.
这就是我们的神，有效的、主权的、施行拯救的神。

There is no other God but him.
除祂以外别无他神。

Any other god, called by whatever name, any god that is not totally sovereign, irresistibly effectual, and completely successful in the salvation of his people is no God at all, but only the idolatrous figment of man’s imagination!
任何其他的神，不论以何种名义称呼，任何不是完全主权的、不可抗拒地有效的、在拯救祂子民上不是完全成功的神，根本就不是神，只不过是人想象中的偶像而已！

Idolatry is as much a problem in America as it was among the heathen of Isaiah’s day.
拜偶像在美国和以赛亚时代的异教徒中一样是个问题。

I say, without hesitancy or apology, that the god of modern, Arminian, freewill religion, the god of our families and friends, the god many of us once claimed to worship, is a false god, a base, abominable idol!
我毫不犹豫地说，也无需道歉，现代的、阿民念的、自由意志宗教的神，我们家人和朋友的神，我们许多人曾经声称敬拜的神，是假神，是卑劣的、可憎的偶像！

“He who worships the true God detests and loathes idols.” -Spurgeon
“敬拜真神的人厌恶并憎恨偶像。”——司布真