创世记结晶读经(二十): 圣经哪里说到神造男造女的?

创世记一章 26~27『神说，我们要按着我们的形像，照着我们的样式造人，使他们
管理海里的鱼、空中的鸟 地上的牲畜、和全地、并地上所爬的一切爬物。神就按着
自己的形像创造人，乃是按着神的形像创造他；创造他们有男有女。』

在神创造了植物生命和动物生命之后，神还需要创造人，作为最高的受造生命，按
着他的形像，照着他的样式来彰显他自己。要完成这件工作，需要三一神，父、子、
灵，在人身上作工。这在…〔创世记〕以下各卷书里得到充分的证明（创世记生命
读经，七七页）。

创世记一章二十六节的『我们要…』启示，神格的三者之间，为着人的创造，举行
了会议。在已过的永远，三一神决定要创造人，这指明人的创造乃是为着三一神永
远的定旨（弗三 9~11）。神造人的心意是要完成他神圣的经纶，将他自己分赐到人
里面（提前一 4 与注 4 一段）。这在圣经以后各卷书中完全揭示出来（圣经恢复
本，创一 26 注 1）。

神的形像，指神里面的所是，是神属性内里素质的彰显，这些属性最显着的是爱
（约壹四 8）、光（一 5）、圣（启四 8）、义（耶二三 6）。神的样式，指神的形
状（腓二 6），乃是神身位之素质与性质的彰显。因此，神的形像和神的样式不当
视为两个分开的东西。人内里的美德受造於人的灵里，乃是神属性的翻版，也是人
彰显神属性的凭借。

人外面的形状受造为人的身体，乃是神形状的翻版。因此，神造人成为他自己的复
本，使人有盛装神并彰显神的性能。其他一切活物都是『各从其类』造的（创一 11~12、
21、24~25），人却是从神类造的（参徒十七 28~29上）。既然神与人同类，人就有
可能与神联合，而在生机的联结里与他同活（约十五 5，罗六 5，十一 17~24，林
前六 17）。

子基督是神的具体化身（西二 9），是那不能看见之神的像，是神属性之素质的彰
显（一 15，林后四 4，来一 3）。人是照着基督创造的，目的是要基督进到人里面，
并借着人得彰显（西一 27，腓一20~21 上）。受造的人是活的器皿，容器，以盛装
基督（罗九 21、23，林后四 7）。

至终，基督成为肉体，穿上人性，成为人的样式（腓二 6~8），好叫人借着他的死
与复活，可以得着神永远、神圣的生命（彼前一 3，约壹五 11~12），并且在里面
凭这生命得以变化，并模成基督的形像（林后三 18，罗八 29），在外面得以改变
形状，同形於基督荣耀的身体（腓三 21），使人与基督一样一式（约壹三2 下），
与基督一同向着宇宙彰显神（弗三 21）。

受造的人虽然是神的复本，有神的形像和样式，但还没有神的实际和神的生命。因
此，人还需要借着吃生命树，接受神作人的生命，使人得着神的实际而彰显神（创
二 9 与注 2）（圣经恢复本，创一 26 注 2）。

按照歌罗西一章十五节，神是不能看见的，但他的爱子，神荣耀的光辉，神本质的
印像（来一3），乃是他的像，彰显他的所是。这里的像，不是指物质的形状，乃是
指神的所是在他一切属性和美德上的彰显（见腓二 6 注 2）。这解释由歌罗西三章
十节和林后三章十八节得着证实（西一 15 注 1）。

    参读：创世记生命读经，第六篇；真理课程一级卷一，第三课。

- 未完待续

English Version

Gen. 1:26-27 "And God said, Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our 
likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the 
birds of heaven and over  the cattle and over all the earth and over every 
creeping thing that creeps upon the  earth. And God created man in His own 
image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them."

    After God created [the plant life and the animal life], God still needed 
to create man as the highest created life to express Himself in His image 
and after His likeness. To accomplish this work, there is the need of the 
Triune God─the Father, the Son, and the Spirit─to work on man. This is 
fully proven by the following books of the whole Bible. (Life-study of Genesis,
 p. 62)

    Let Us [in Genesis 1:26]...reveals that a council was held among the 
three of the Godhead regarding the creation of man. The decision to create 
man had been made by the Triune God in eternity past, indicating that the 
creation of man was for the eternal purpose of the Triune God (Eph. 3:9-11). 
God's intention in creating man was to carry out His divine economy for 
the dispensing of Himself into man (1 Tim. 1:4 and footnote 3, par. 1). 
This is fully unveiled in the following books of the Bible. (Gen. 1:26, footnote 
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 John 1:5), holiness (Rev. 4:8), and righteousness 
(Jer. 23:6). God's likeness, referring to God's form (Phil. 2:6), is the 
expression of the essence and nature of God's person. Thus, God's image 
and God's likeness should not be considered as two separate things. 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. Man's outward form, created 
as man's body, is a copy of God's form. Thus, God created man to be a duplication 
of Himself that man may have the capacity to contain God and express Him. 
All the other living things were created “according to their kind” (Gen. 
1:11-12, 21, 24-25), but man was created according to God's kind (cf. Acts 
17:28-29a). 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).

    Christ the Son, as God's embodiment (Col. 2:9), is the image of the 
invisible God, the expression of the essence of God's attributes (Col. 1:15; 
2 Cor. 4:4; Heb. 1:3). 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). Created man is a living vessel, a container, to contain 
Christ (Rom. 9:21, 23; 2 Cor. 4:7). Eventually, 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) that 
he may be the same as Christ (1 John 3:2b) and may express God with Him 
to the universe (Eph. 3:21).

    Created man was a duplication of God in God's image and likeness, but 
he did not have the reality of God or the life of God. Thus, he still needed 
to receive God as his life by eating of the tree of life so that he might 
have the reality of God to express Him (Gen. 2:9 and footnote 2). (Gen. 
1:26, footnote 3)

    [According to Colossians 1:15] God is invisible. But the Son of His 
love, who is the effulgence of His glory and the impress of His substance 
(Heb. 1:3), is His image, expressing what He is. The image here is not a 

physical form but an expression of God's being in all His attributes and 
virtues (see footnote 62 in Phil. 2). This interpretation is confirmed by 
Colossians 3:10 and 2 Corinthians 3:18. (Col. 1:15, footnote 1)

    Further Reading: Life-study of Genesis, msg. 6; Truth Lessons─Level 
One, vol. 1, lsn. 3

- To be continued

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