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創世記結晶讀經(二十五): 神按着自己的形像樣式造人作他的彰顯
讀經：創一 26 ～ 27，西一 15，林後三 18，羅八29，啟二一 11
1 『我們要按着我們的形像，照着我們的樣式造人，…神就按着自己的形像創造
人，乃是按着神的形像創造他』─創一 26 上、27 上：
2 『我們要…造人』啟示，神格的三者之間，為着人的創造，舉行了會議─26 上
3 在已過的永遠決定要創造人，指明人的創造乃是為着三一神永遠的定旨─弗三
9 ～ 11。
4 神造人的心意是要完成他神聖的經綸，將他自己分賜到人裡面─提前一 4，羅
八 11。
5 神乃是按着他自己的形像，照着他的樣式造人─創一 26 上。
6 神的形像，指神裡面的所是，是神屬性內里素質的彰顯，這些屬性最顯着的是
愛（約壹四 8）、光（一5）、聖（啟四 8）、義（耶二三 6）。
7 神的樣式，指神的形狀（腓二 6），乃是神身位之素質與性質的彰顯。
8 神的形像和神的樣式不當視為兩個分開的東西─創一 26 上。
9 人內里的美德受造於人的靈里，乃是神屬性的翻版，也是人彰顯神屬性的憑藉。
10 人外面的形狀受造為人的身體，乃是神形狀的翻版。
11 神造人成為他自己的複本，使人有盛裝神並彰顯神的性能。
12 其他一切活物都是『各從其類』造的（11 ～ 12、21、24 ～ 25），人卻是
從神類造的（參徒十七28 ～ 29 上）。
13 既然神與人同類，人就有可能與神聯合，而在生機的聯結里與他同活─約十
五 5，羅六 5，十一 17 ～24，林前六 17。
14 子基督是『那不能看見之神的像』，是『神榮耀的光輝，是神本質的印象』─
神所是的彰顯─西一15，來一 3：
15 子基督是神的具體化身，是那不能看見之神的像，是神屬性之素質的彰顯─
西二 9，一 15，林後四4，來一 3。
16 人是照着基督創造的，目的是要基督進到人裡面，並借着人得彰顯─西一 27，
腓一 20 ～ 21 上。
17 神按着他的形像，照着他的樣式造人，目的是要人接受他作生命，並彰顯他一
切的屬性─創一 26 ～27，二 9。
18 神按着他的形像，照着他的樣式造人，因為他的心意是要進到人裡面，並與
人成為一─弗三 17 上。
19 神按着他自己的形像造人，使人借着他的經綸，可以接受他的生命和性情，
藉此成為他的彰顯─提前一 4，約三 16，彼後一 4，林後三 18。
20 神這樣造人，使人有性能盛裝神的愛、光、義、聖─約壹四 8，一 5，弗四
24，五 2、8 ～ 9。
21 因着我們是從神類造的，所以我們的人性美德有盛裝神聖屬性的性能─林後
十 1，十一 10。
22 神按着他的形像造人，意思是說，神造人有一個心意，要使人成為神的複本，
神的複製，作他團體的彰顯；這樣的複製使神快樂，因為這個複製看起來像他，說
話像他，生活也像他─約十二 24，羅八29，來二 10，約壹三 1 ～ 2。
23 聖經里對於神和人的關係，有一個奧秘的思想─創一 26，結一 26，約壹三 2
下，啟四 3 上，二一11 下。
24 神的渴望是要成為與人一樣，並使人與他一樣─約壹三 2 下。
25 神的心意是要將他自己在基督里作到我們裡面，使他自己與我們一樣，也使
我們與他一樣─弗三 17上。
26 神的經綸是要使他自己成為人，也要使我們，就是他的造物，成為神，好使他
是神『人化』了，而我們是人『神化』了─約一 14，羅一 3 ～ 4。
27 創世記一章二十六至二十八節，以及五章二節的代名詞『他們』，指明亞當是
一個團體人，集體人，包括全人類。
28 神沒有創造許多人；他在一個人亞當裡面，集體的創造了人類。
29 神按着他的形像並照着他的樣式造了這樣一個團體人，使人類能團體的彰顯神。
30 基督的成為肉體與神人生活，達成了神造人的目的─一 26 ～ 27，約一 1、
14，路一 31 ～ 32、35，二 40、52。
31 基督的成為肉體，與神按着他的形像、照着他的樣式造人的定旨有密切關係─
就是要使人接受他作生 命，並彰顯他神聖的屬性─創一 26，二 9，徒三 14 上，弗
四 24。
32 主耶穌是由人的素質而生，有人性的美德，為要將這些美德拔高到一個標準，
配得上神的屬性，作神的彰顯─路一 35。
33 基督是由神聖素質成孕的那一位，有神聖的屬性作他人性美德的內容和實際，
使空洞的人性美德得着充實─太一 18、20。
34 神聖的屬性充實、加強、豐富並聖別人性的美德，為要在人性的美德上彰顯神。
35 主耶穌拯救我們時，他是那有神聖屬性充實人性美德的一位，進到我們裡面─
路二10 ～ 11、25 ～ 32，十九 9 ～ 10。
36 他作為賜生命的靈進到我們裡面，將神帶到我們裡面，並以神的屬性充實我
們的美德─林前十五 45下，六 17。
37 這樣的生命從裡面拯救我們，並聖別、變化我們，而拔高我們人性的美德─
羅五 10，十二 2。
38 基督成為肉體，穿上人性，成為人的樣式（腓二 6 ～ 8），好叫人借着他的
死與復活，可以得着神永遠、神聖的生命（彼前一 3，約壹五 11 ～ 12），並且憑
這生命在裡面得以變化，並模成基督的形像（林後三 18，羅八 29），在外面得以
改變形狀，同形於基督榮耀的身體（腓三 21）；這樣，我們就與基督一樣一式（約
壹三 2 下），與基督一同向着宇宙彰顯神（弗三 21）。
39 我們以沒有帕子遮蔽的臉，觀看復活、升天之主的榮光，就『漸漸變化成為與
他同樣的形像』，就是復活、得榮之基督的形像─林後三 18。
40 神已豫定我們模成他長子的形像；模成是變化的最終結果，包括我們裡面素質
和性情的變化，和我們外面樣式的變化，好使我們與基督得榮耀的形像相配─羅八
29。
41 在創世記一章二十六節，我們看見一個按着神形像被造的團體人作他的彰顯，
而在啟示錄二十一章， 我們看見新耶路撒冷作為創世記一章二十六節里之形像的終
極發展和總結；神的城乃是神的團體彰顯，有神的形像，並以神的榮耀照耀─啟四
3，二一 11。
- 未完待續
English Version
God Creating Man in His Own Image for His Expression
Scripture Reading: Gen. 1:26-27; Col. 1:15; 2 Cor. 3:18; Rom. 8:29; Rev.
21:11
I. "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness...And God created
man in His own image; in the image of God He created him" (Gen. 1:26a,
27a):
A. Let Us make man reveals that a council was held among the three of the
Godhead regarding the creation of man (v. 26a):
1. The decision to create man was made in eternity past, indicating that
the creation of man was for the eternal purpose of the Triune God (Eph.
3:9-11).
2. God's intention in creating man was to carry out His divine economy
for the dispensing of Himself into man (1 Tim. 1:4; Rom. 8:11).
B. God created man in His own image, according to His likeness (Gen. 1:26a):
1. God's image, referring to God's inner being, is the expression of
the inward essence of God's attributes, the most prominent of which are
love (1 John 4:8), light (1:5), holiness (Rev. 4:8), and righteousness (Jer.
23:6).
2. God's likeness, referring to God's form (Phil. 2:6), is the expression
of the essence and nature of God's person.
3. God's image and God's likeness should not be considered as two separate
things (Gen. 1:26a):
a. Man's inward virtues, created in man's spirit, are copies of God's
attributes and are the means for man to express God's attributes.
b. Man's outward form, created as man's body, is a copy of God's form.
4. God created man to be a duplication of Himself so that man may have
the capacity to contain God and express Him:
a. All other living things were created “according to their kind” (vv.
11-12, 21, 24-25), but man was created according to God's kind (cf. Acts
17:28-29a).
b. Since God and man are of the same kind, it is possible for man to be
joined to God and to live together with Him in an organic union (John 15:5;
Rom. 6:5; 11:17-24; 1 Cor. 6:17).
C. Christ the Son is “the image of the invisible God,” “the effulgence
of His glory and the impress of His substance”─the expression of what God
is (Col. 1:15; Heb. 1:3):
1. Christ the Son, as God's embodiment, is the image of the invisible
God, the expression of the essence of God's attributes (Col. 2:9; 1:15;
2 Cor. 4:4; Heb. 1:3).
2. Man was created according to Christ with the intention that Christ
would enter into man and be expressed through man (Col. 1:27; Phil. 1:20-21a)
.
D. God's purpose in the creation of man in His image and according to His
likeness is that man would receive Him as life and express Him in all His
attributes (Gen. 1:26-27; 2:9):
1. God created man in His image and according to His likeness because
His intention is to come into man and to be one with man (Eph. 3:17a).
2. God created man in His own image so that through His economy man may
receive His life and nature and thereby become His expression (1 Tim. 1:4;
John 3:16; 2 Pet. 1:4; 2 Cor. 3:18).
3. God created man in such a way that man has the capacity to contain
God's love, light, righteousness, and holiness (1 John 4:8; 1:5; Eph. 4:24;
5:2, 8-9).
4. Because we were created according to God's kind, our human virtues
have the capacity to contain the divine attributes (2 Cor. 10:1; 11:10).
E. For God to create man in His image means that God created man with the
intention that man would become a duplicate of God, the reproduction of
God, for His corporate expression; this reproduction makes God happy because
it looks like Him, speaks like Him, and lives like Him (John 12:24; Rom.
8:29; Heb. 2:10; 1 John 3:1-2).
F. In the Bible there is a mysterious thought concerning the relationship
between God and man (Gen. 1:26; Ezek. 1:26; 1 John 3:2b; Rev. 4:3a; 21:11b):
1. God's desire is to become the same as man is and to make man the same
as He is (1 John 3:2b).
2. God's intention is to work Himself in Christ into us, making Himself
the same as we are and making us the same as He is (Eph. 3:17a).
3. God's economy is to make Himself man and to make us, His created beings,
God so that He is God "man-ized" and we are man "God-ized" (John 1:14;
Rom. 1:3-4).
G. The pronouns them in Genesis 1:26-28 and their in 5:2 indicate that Adam
was a corporate man, a collective man, including all mankind:
1. God did not create many men; He created mankind collectively in one
person, Adam.
2. God created such a corporate man in His image and according to His
likeness so that mankind might express God corporately.
II. Christ's incarnation and God-man living fulfilled God's intention in
His creation of man (1:26-27; John 1:1, 14; Luke 1:31-32, 35; 2:40, 52):
A. The incarnation of Christ is closely related to God's purpose in the
creation of man in His image and according to His likeness─that man would
receive Him as life and express Him in His divine attributes (Gen. 1:26;
2:9; Acts 3:14a; Eph. 4:24).
B. The Lord Jesus was born of the human essence with the human virtues
in order to uplift these virtues to such a standard that they can match
God's attributes for His expression (Luke 1:35):
1. As the One who was conceived of the divine essence with the divine
attributes to be the content and reality of His human virtues, Christ fills
the empty human virtues (Matt. 1:18,20).
2. The divine attributes fill, strengthen, enrich, and sanctify the human
virtues for the purpose of expressing God in the human virtues.
C. When the Lord Jesus saves us, He comes into us as the One with the human
virtues filled with the divine attributes (Luke 2:10-11, 25-32; 19:9-10):
1. As the life-giving Spirit, He enters into us to bring God into our
being and to fill our virtues with God's attributes (1 Cor. 15:45b; 6:17).
2. Such a life saves us from within and uplifts our human virtues,
sanctifying and transforming us (Rom. 5:10; 12:2).
III. In His incarnation Christ put on human nature and became in the likeness
of men (Phil. 2:6-8) so that through His death and resurrection man may
obtain God's eternal, divine life (1 Pet. 1:3; 1 John 5:11-12) and by that
life be transformed and conformed to the image of Christ inwardly (2 Cor.
3:18; Rom. 8:29) and transfigured into the likeness of Christ's glorious
body outwardly (Phil. 3:21); in this way we may be the same as Christ (1
John 3:2b) and may express God with Him to the universe (Eph. 3:21):
A. By beholding the glory of the resurrected and ascended Lord with an
unveiled face, we are “being transformed into the same image”─the image
of the resurrected and glorified Christ (2 Cor. 3:18).
B. God has predestinated us to be conformed to the image of the firstborn
Son of God; as the end result of transformation, conformation includes the
changing of our inward essence and nature and also of our outward form so
that we may match the glorified image of Christ (Rom. 8:29).
C. In Genesis 1:26 we see a corporate man created in God's image for His
expression, and in Revelation 21 we see the New Jerusalem as the ultimate
development and consummation of the image in Genesis 1:26; the city of God
is the corporate expression of God, bearing the image of God and shining
with the glory of God (Rev. 4:3; 21:11).
- To be continued
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