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創世記結晶讀經(二十): 聖經哪裡說到神造男造女的?
創世記一章 26~27『神說，我們要按着我們的形像，照着我們的樣式造人，使他們
管理海里的魚、空中的鳥 地上的牲畜、和全地、並地上所爬的一切爬物。神就按着
自己的形像創造人，乃是按着神的形像創造他；創造他們有男有女。』
在神創造了植物生命和動物生命之後，神還需要創造人，作為最高的受造生命，按
着他的形像，照着他的樣式來彰顯他自己。要完成這件工作，需要三一神，父、子、
靈，在人身上作工。這在…〔創世記〕以下各卷書裡得到充分的證明（創世記生命
讀經，七七頁）。
創世記一章二十六節的『我們要…』啟示，神格的三者之間，為着人的創造，舉行
了會議。在已過的永遠，三一神決定要創造人，這指明人的創造乃是為着三一神永
遠的定旨（弗三 9~11）。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 與注 4 一段）。這在聖經以後各卷書中完全揭示出來（聖經恢復
本，創一 26 注 1）。
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）。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。因此，神的形像和神的樣式不當
視為兩個分開的東西。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。
人外面的形狀受造為人的身體，乃是神形狀的翻版。因此，神造人成為他自己的復
本，使人有盛裝神並彰顯神的性能。其他一切活物都是『各從其類』造的（創一 11~12、
21、24~25），人卻是從神類造的（參徒十七 28~29上）。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）。
子基督是神的具體化身（西二 9），是那不能看見之神的像，是神屬性之素質的彰
顯（一 15，林後四 4，來一 3）。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）。受造的人是活的器皿，容器，以盛裝
基督（羅九 21、23，林後四 7）。
至終，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），並且在裡面
憑這生命得以變化，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），使人與基督一樣一式（約壹三2 下），
與基督一同向着宇宙彰顯神（弗三 21）。
受造的人雖然是神的複本，有神的形像和樣式，但還沒有神的實際和神的生命。因
此，人還需要借着吃生命樹，接受神作人的生命，使人得着神的實際而彰顯神（創
二 9 與注 2）（聖經恢復本，創一 26 注 2）。
按照歌羅西一章十五節，神是不能看見的，但他的愛子，神榮耀的光輝，神本質的
印像（來一3），乃是他的像，彰顯他的所是。這裡的像，不是指物質的形狀，乃是
指神的所是在他一切屬性和美德上的彰顯（見腓二 6 注 2）。這解釋由歌羅西三章
十節和林後三章十八節得着證實（西一 15 注 1）。
參讀：創世記生命讀經，第六篇；真理課程一級卷一，第三課。
- 未完待續
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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