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They are loving an imaginary God!
他们在爱一个想象中的神！
(Jonathan Edwards)
(约拿单•爱德华滋)
Some people have no sense of the vileness of their sin, and no sense of God’s infinite and holy opposition to it.
有些人对自己罪恶的邪恶毫无感觉，也不明白神对罪无限和圣洁的敌对。
They think that God has no higher standards than they have.
他们认为神的标准不会高于他们自己的标准。
So they get on well with Him and feel a sort of love for Him-but they are loving an imaginary God, not the real God!
因此他们与祂相处融洽，对祂产生某种爱意——但他们所爱的是想象中的神，而不是真实的神！
There are others whose self-love produces a sort of love for God simply because of the material blessings they have received from His providence.
还有一些人因着从神的护理中得到物质祝福，他们的自爱产生了一种对神的爱。
There is nothing commendable in this either.
这种爱也没有什么值得称赞的。
Self-love can produce a merely natural gratitude to God.
自爱只能产生对神肤浅的感恩。
This can happen through wrong ideas about God, as if He were all love and mercy, and no avenging justice; or as if God were bound to love a person because of the person’s worthiness.
这种情况源于对神的错误认识，仿佛祂只有爱和怜悯，没有报应的公义；或者认为神必须爱一个人是因为那人的配得。
On these grounds men may love a God of their own imaginations, when they have no love at all for the true God.
基于这些原因，人们可能爱着他们想象中的神，却对真实的神毫无爱意。
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～～～～
We have posted Arthur Pink’s challenging one page tract, “Repent or Perish!”
我们已经发布了阿瑟•平克所写的发人深省的单页短文《悔改或灭亡！》