创世记结晶读经(二一): 神所造的人性美德包括爱光义圣

弗三 17『使基督借着信，安家在你们心里…。』
林后三 18『但我们众人既然以没有帕子遮蔽的脸，好像镜子观看并返照主的荣光，
就渐渐变化成为与他同样的形像，从荣耀到荣耀，乃是从主灵变化成的。』

神按着他的形像，照着他的样式造人，目的是要人接受他作生命，并彰显他一切的
属性。我们若对圣经（旧约和新约）的整个启示有包罗万有的眼光，就会看见神设
计人是要人与他成为一。神在已过的永远里作了这种设计。

神设计人要人与他成为一，这是一件大事。当然，在有关人与神成为一这件事上，
我们在圣经里找不到『设计』这辞。然而，我们若对神圣话语的启示有包罗万有的
眼光，就会看见在已过的永远里，神曾设计人要人与他成为一。

我们可用房屋的设计与建造为例，说明神对人的设计。我们在盖造房子以前，首先
需要设计。同样的，圣经里也有神的设计与建造。圣经从始至终有神建造的完整启
示。神为着他的建造有所设计。他设计要有人，而人应当与他成为一。

现在我们要问，为甚么神造人是按着他自己的形像，使人成为他自己的复本，并且
为甚么神为人造了灵。神的经纶就是这些问题的答案。约翰四章二十四节告诉我们，
神是灵，我们必须在灵里敬拜他。只有灵才能敬拜灵。

因着他神圣的经纶，神按着他自己的形像，照着他自己的样式造人，给人有个灵可
以敬拜他、接触他。神圣的经纶就是要完成将神分赐到人里面的神圣分赐。神按着
他自己的形像造人…；神给人造灵，使他能将自己分赐到人里面。

神造我们是按着他自己的形像，为要使我们能作他的彰显者。我们这些人都是神的
器皿，神要把他自己放在我们里面，为着彰显他自己。神在创世之前就拣选了我们，
豫定我们，要把我们模成神儿子的形像（弗一 4~5，罗八29）。

人是按着神的形像造的。因此，神所造的人有爱、有光，也有度量成为公义的与圣
别的。即使人堕落了，人在堕落的光景里仍有爱、有光，也有度量像神那样公义且
圣别。

神按着自己的形像造人，这就是说，神造人有度量，能有神的爱、光、义、圣。人
的爱、光、义、圣，就是我们所称的人性美德。这些美德是神所造的。…人性美德
乃是神所造的，用以盛装神的属性。

人性的爱、光、义、圣是受造的度量，用以盛装神圣的爱、光、义、圣。

普世的人都同意，恨人是违背我们良心的。不仅如此，说谎、偷窃、在黑暗中行事，
也是违背我们良心的。甚至未得救的人收了饭馆或商店多找的钱，也会有不义的感
觉。

这里的要点是，人被神所造，有爱有光，行事公义，为人圣别。人有这些美德，因
为人是按着神的形像，就是按着神爱、光、义、圣的形像造的。神所造的人性美德，
乃是盛装神属性的度量。神这样造人，目的就是要人接受他作生命树，作人的生命
和内容。

参读：神圣的经纶，第一至二章；人生的意义与正确的奉献，第二至三篇。

- 未完待续

English Version:

Eph. 3:17 "That Christ may make His home in your hearts through faith..."
2 Cor. 3:18 "But we all with unveiled face, beholding and reflecting like 
a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image 
from glory to glory, even as from the Lord Spirit."

    God's purpose in the creation of man in His image and after His likeness 
was that man would receive Him as life and express Him in all His attributes.

    If we have an all-inclusive view of the entire revelation in the Scriptures,
 both of the Old Testament and of the New Testament, we shall see that God 
designed man to be one with Him. God made this design in eternity past. 
It is a great matter that God designed man to be one with Him. Of course, 
in the Bible we cannot find the word design used with respect to man's being 
one with God. Nevertheless, if we have an all-inclusive view of the revelation 
in the holy Word, we shall see that in eternity past God designed man to 
be one with Him. (Life-study of Luke, pp. 483-484)

     We may use the designing and building of a house as an illustration 
of God's design concerning man. Before we build a house, we first need a 
design. Likewise, in the Bible we have both God's design and His building. 
Throughout the Scriptures we have a complete revelation of God's building. 
For His building God had a design. He designed to have man and that man 
should be one with Him. (Life-study of Luke, p. 484)

    Now we need to ask why God created man in His own image, making man 
a copy of Himself, and why God created man with a spirit. God's economy 
is the answer to these questions. John 4:24 tells us that God is Spirit 
and that we must worship Him in spirit. Only the spirit can worship the 
Spirit. God created man in His own image, after His own likeness, with a 
spirit to worship Him and contact Him because of His divine economy. The 
divine economy is to carry out the divine dispensing of God into man. God 
created man in His own image...with a spirit so that He could dispense Himself 
into man. (The Divine Economy, p. 14)

    God created us in His own image so that we would be His expression (Gen. 
1:26). We are God's vessels to contain Him so that He may be expressed through 
us (Rom. 9:23). God chose us and predestinated us before the foundation 
of the world so that we would be conformed to the image of His Son (Eph. 
1:4-5; Rom. 8:29). (The Meaning of Human Life and a Proper Consecration, 
p. 44)

    Man was made in God's image. The man created by God, therefore, has 
love, light, and the capacity to be righteous and holy. Even though we are 
fallen, we still have in our fallen condition love, light, and the capacity 
to be right and to be holy like God. For God to create man in His own image 
means that God created man with the capacity to have His love, light, righteousness,
 and holiness. Human love, light, righteousness, and holiness are what we 
call the human virtues. These virtues were created by God....The human virtues 
were created by God to contain His attributes. Human love, light, righteousness,
 and holiness are created capacities to contain the divine love, light, 
righteousness, and holiness.

    People everywhere agree that hating others is contrary to our conscience.
 Furthermore, it is also contrary to our conscience to lie, steal, and do 
things in darkness. Even an unsaved person may have the sense that it would 
be unrighteous to keep extra change given to him by mistake in a restaurant 
or store.

     The point here is that man was made by God to have love and light and 
to walk righteously and to be holy. Man has these virtues because he was 
created in God's image, in the image of God's love, light, righteousness, 
and holiness. The human virtues created by God are the capacity to contain 
God's attributes. God created man in this way with the intention that man 
would take Him as the tree of life to be his life and content. (Life-study 
of Luke, pp. 489-490)

     Further  Reading:  The  Divine  Economy,  chs.  1-2;  The  Meaning 
 of  Human  Life  and  a  Proper Consecration, chs. 2-3

- To be continued

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