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晨興聖言─創世記結晶讀經（一）(41)
第四週 ‧ 週一
晨興餧養
創一 26~27『神說，我們要按着我們的形像，照着我們的樣式造人，使他們管理海裏的魚、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，按着祂的形像，照着祂的樣式來彰顯祂自己。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〕以下各卷書裏得到充分的證明（創世記生命讀經，七七頁）。
〔創世記一章二十六節的〕『我們要…』啓示，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祂神聖的經綸，將祂自己分賜到人裏面（提前一 4 與註 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 註 1）。
信息選讀
神的形像，指神裏面的所是，是神屬性內裏素質的彰顯，這些屬性最顯着的是愛（約壹四 8）、光（一 5）、聖（啓四 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。人內裏的美德受造於人的靈裏，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，神造人成為祂自己的復本，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，而在生機的聯結裏與祂同活（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裏面，並藉着人得彰顯（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），好叫人藉着祂的死與復活，可以得着神永遠、神聖的生命（彼前一 3，約壹五 11~12），並且在裏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復本，有神的形像和樣式，但還沒有神的實際和神的生命。因此，人還需要藉着喫
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 與註 2）（聖經恢復本，創一 26 註 2）。
〔按照歌羅西一章十五節，〕神是不能看見的，但祂的愛子，神榮耀的光輝，神本質的印像（來一3），乃是祂的像，彰顯祂的所是。這裏的像，不是指物質的形狀，乃是指神的所是在祂一切屬性和美德上的彰顯（見腓二 6 註 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 註 1）。
參讀：創世記生命讀經，第六篇；真理課程一級卷一，第三課。
‹‹ WEEK 4 — DAY 1 ››
Morning Nourishment
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)
Today's Reading
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
晨興餧養
創一 26~27『神說，我們要按着我們的形像，照着我們的樣式造人，使他們管理海裏的魚、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，按着祂的形像，照着祂的樣式來彰顯祂自己。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〕以下各卷書裏得到充分的證明（創世記生命讀經，七七頁）。
〔創世記一章二十六節的〕『我們要…』啓示，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祂神聖的經綸，將祂自己分賜到人裏面（提前一 4 與註 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 註 1）。
信息選讀
神的形像，指神裏面的所是，是神屬性內裏素質的彰顯，這些屬性最顯着的是愛（約壹四 8）、光（一 5）、聖（啓四 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。人內裏的美德受造於人的靈裏，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，神造人成為祂自己的復本，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，而在生機的聯結裏與祂同活（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裏面，並藉着人得彰顯（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），好叫人藉着祂的死與復活，可以得着神永遠、神聖的生命（彼前一 3，約壹五 11~12），並且在裏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復本，有神的形像和樣式，但還沒有神的實際和神的生命。因此，人還需要藉着喫
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 與註 2）（聖經恢復本，創一 26 註 2）。
〔按照歌羅西一章十五節，〕神是不能看見的，但祂的愛子，神榮耀的光輝，神本質的印像（來一3），乃是祂的像，彰顯祂的所是。這裏的像，不是指物質的形狀，乃是指神的所是在祂一切屬性和美德上的彰顯（見腓二 6 註 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 註 1）。
參讀：創世記生命讀經，第六篇；真理課程一級卷一，第三課。
‹‹ WEEK 4 — DAY 1 ››
Morning Nourishment
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)
Today's Reading
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