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创世记结晶读经(二十五): 神按着自己的形像样式造人作他的彰显
读经：创一 26 ～ 27，西一 15，林后三 18，罗八29，启二一 11
1 『我们要按着我们的形像，照着我们的样式造人，…神就按着自己的形像创造
人，乃是按着神的形像创造他』─创一 26 上、27 上：
2 『我们要…造人』启示，神格的三者之间，为着人的创造，举行了会议─26 上
3 在已过的永远决定要创造人，指明人的创造乃是为着三一神永远的定旨─弗三
9 ～ 11。
4 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，罗
八 11。
5 神乃是按着他自己的形像，照着他的样式造人─创一 26 上。
6 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）。
7 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。
8 神的形像和神的样式不当视为两个分开的东西─创一 26 上。
9 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。
10 人外面的形状受造为人的身体，乃是神形状的翻版。
11 神造人成为他自己的复本，使人有盛装神并彰显神的性能。
12 其他一切活物都是『各从其类』造的（11 ～ 12、21、24 ～ 25），人却是
从神类造的（参徒十七28 ～ 29 上）。
13 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。
14 子基督是『那不能看见之神的像』，是『神荣耀的光辉，是神本质的印象』─
神所是的彰显─西一15，来一 3：
15 子基督是神的具体化身，是那不能看见之神的像，是神属性之素质的彰显─
西二 9，一 15，林后四4，来一 3。
16 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。
17 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─创一 26 ～27，二 9。
18 神按着他的形像，照着他的样式造人，因为他的心意是要进到人里面，并与
人成为一─弗三 17 上。
19 神按着他自己的形像造人，使人借着他的经纶，可以接受他的生命和性情，
借此成为他的彰显─提前一 4，约三 16，彼后一 4，林后三 18。
20 神这样造人，使人有性能盛装神的爱、光、义、圣─约壹四 8，一 5，弗四
24，五 2、8 ～ 9。
21 因着我们是从神类造的，所以我们的人性美德有盛装神圣属性的性能─林后
十 1，十一 10。
22 神按着他的形像造人，意思是说，神造人有一个心意，要使人成为神的复本，
神的复制，作他团体的彰显；这样的复制使神快乐，因为这个复制看起来像他，说
话像他，生活也像他─约十二 24，罗八29，来二 10，约壹三 1 ～ 2。
23 圣经里对於神和人的关系，有一个奥秘的思想─创一 26，结一 26，约壹三 2
下，启四 3 上，二一11 下。
24 神的渴望是要成为与人一样，并使人与他一样─约壹三 2 下。
25 神的心意是要将他自己在基督里作到我们里面，使他自己与我们一样，也使
我们与他一样─弗三 17上。
26 神的经纶是要使他自己成为人，也要使我们，就是他的造物，成为神，好使他
是神『人化』了，而我们是人『神化』了─约一 14，罗一 3 ～ 4。
27 创世记一章二十六至二十八节，以及五章二节的代名词『他们』，指明亚当是
一个团体人，集体人，包括全人类。
28 神没有创造许多人；他在一个人亚当里面，集体的创造了人类。
29 神按着他的形像并照着他的样式造了这样一个团体人，使人类能团体的彰显神。
30 基督的成为肉体与神人生活，达成了神造人的目的─一 26 ～ 27，约一 1、
14，路一 31 ～ 32、35，二 40、52。
31 基督的成为肉体，与神按着他的形像、照着他的样式造人的定旨有密切关系─
就是要使人接受他作生 命，并彰显他神圣的属性─创一 26，二 9，徒三 14 上，弗
四 24。
32 主耶稣是由人的素质而生，有人性的美德，为要将这些美德拔高到一个标准，
配得上神的属性，作神的彰显─路一 35。
33 基督是由神圣素质成孕的那一位，有神圣的属性作他人性美德的内容和实际，
使空洞的人性美德得着充实─太一 18、20。
34 神圣的属性充实、加强、丰富并圣别人性的美德，为要在人性的美德上彰显神。
35 主耶稣拯救我们时，他是那有神圣属性充实人性美德的一位，进到我们里面─
路二10 ～ 11、25 ～ 32，十九 9 ～ 10。
36 他作为赐生命的灵进到我们里面，将神带到我们里面，并以神的属性充实我
们的美德─林前十五 45下，六 17。
37 这样的生命从里面拯救我们，并圣别、变化我们，而拔高我们人性的美德─
罗五 10，十二 2。
38 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），并且凭
这生命在里面得以变化，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）；这样，我们就与基督一样一式（约
壹三 2 下），与基督一同向着宇宙彰显神（弗三 21）。
39 我们以没有帕子遮蔽的脸，观看复活、升天之主的荣光，就『渐渐变化成为与
他同样的形像』，就是复活、得荣之基督的形像─林后三 18。
40 神已豫定我们模成他长子的形像；模成是变化的最终结果，包括我们里面素质
和性情的变化，和我们外面样式的变化，好使我们与基督得荣耀的形像相配─罗八
29。
41 在创世记一章二十六节，我们看见一个按着神形像被造的团体人作他的彰显，
而在启示录二十一章， 我们看见新耶路撒冷作为创世记一章二十六节里之形像的终
极发展和总结；神的城乃是神的团体彰显，有神的形像，并以神的荣耀照耀─启四
3，二一 11。
- 未完待续
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
创世结晶001-神中心的思想_1
创世结晶002-神中心的思想_2
创世结晶003-神中心的思想_3
创世结晶004-神中心的思想_4
创世结晶005-神中心的思想_5
创世结晶006-神中心的思想_6
创世结晶007-神中心的思想_7
创世结晶008-神在基督里的创造_1
创世结晶009-神在基督里的创造_2
创世结晶010-神在基督里的创造_3
创世结晶011-神在基督里的创造_4
创世结晶012-神在基督里的创造_5
创世结晶013-神在基督里的创造_6
创世结晶014-神在基督里的创造_7
创世结晶015-创世记一章_1_六日谈神之创造
创世结晶016-创世记一章_2:六日谈神创造之第一日
创世结晶017-创世记一章_3:六日谈神创造之第二日
创世结晶018-创世记一章_4:六日谈神创造之第三日
创世结晶019-创世记一章_5:六日谈神创造之第四日
创世结晶020-创世记一章_6:六日谈神创造之第五日
创世结晶021-创世记一章_7:六日谈神创造之第六日
创世结晶022-神按着自己的形像样式造人_1
创世结晶023-神按着自己的形像样式造人_2
创世结晶024-神按着自己的形像样式造人_3
创世结晶025-神按着自己的形像样式造人_4
创世结晶026-神按着自己的形像样式造人_5
创世结晶027-神按着自己的形像样式造人_6
创世结晶028-神按着自己的形像样式造人_7
创世结晶028-神按着自己的形像样式造人_7
创世结晶036-生命树与善恶树_1
创世结晶037-生命树与善恶树_2
创世结晶038-生命树与善恶树_3
创世结晶039-生命树与善恶树_4
创世结晶040-生命树与善恶树_5
创世结晶041-生命树与善恶树_6
创世结晶042-生命树与善恶树_7
创世结晶043-生命水的河_1
创世结晶044-生命水的河_2
创世结晶045-生命水的河_3
创世结晶046-生命水的河_4
创世结晶047-生命水的河_5
创世结晶048-生命水的河_6
创世结晶049-生命水的河_7
创世结晶050-夏娃作亚当配偶的预表_1
创世结晶051-夏娃作亚当配偶的预表_2
创世结晶052-夏娃作亚当配偶的预表_3
创世结晶053-夏娃作亚当配偶的预表_4
创世结晶054-夏娃作亚当配偶的预表_5
创世结晶055-夏娃作亚当配偶的预表_6
创世结晶056-夏娃作亚当配偶的预表_7
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创世结晶058-蛇、女人及后裔的故事_2
创世结晶059-蛇、女人及后裔的故事_3
创世结晶060-蛇、女人及后裔的故事_4
创世结晶061-蛇、女人及后裔的故事_5
创世结晶062-蛇、女人及后裔的故事_6
创世结晶063-蛇、女人及后裔的故事_7
创世结晶064-亚伯、以挪士和以诺_1
创世结晶065-亚伯、以挪士和以诺_2
创世结晶066-亚伯、以挪士和以诺_3
创世结晶067-亚伯、以挪士和以诺_4
创世结晶068-亚伯、以挪士和以诺_5
创世结晶069-亚伯、以挪士和以诺_6
创世结晶070-亚伯、以挪士和以诺_7
创世结晶071-挪亚的时代_1
创世结晶072-挪亚的时代_2
创世结晶073-挪亚的时代_3
创世结晶074-挪亚的时代_4
创世结晶075-挪亚的时代_5
创世结晶076-挪亚的时代_6
创世结晶077-挪亚的时代_7
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创世结晶079-教会生活的种子与国度的小影_2
创世结晶080-教会生活的种子与国度的小影_3
创世结晶081-教会生活的种子与国度的小影_4
创世结晶082-教会生活的种子与国度的小影_5
创世结晶083-教会生活的种子与国度的小影_6
创世结晶084-教会生活的种子与国度的小影_7
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