02/03 像神1
- 一種想認識那無法認識的,明白那無法明白的,觸摸親嚐那不可摸不可嚐的渴望,是源自人類本性裡神的形象。雖然被神學家所稱的「人類始祖的墮落」,帶來的巨大災難所污染並圍困著,然而深淵與深淵響應,人類的心靈仍意識到其源頭,並渴想回到那源頭裡去。(陶恕)The yearning to know what cannot be known, to comprehend the incomprehensible, to touch and taste the unapproachable, arises from the image of God in the nature of man. Deep calleth unto deep, and though polluted and landlocked by the mighty disaster theologians call the Fall, the soul senses its origin and longs to return to its source.(Aiden Wilson Tozer)
- 我們靈魂中有個祕密定律,會自然地趨使我們的心靈,向著神的形象而去。(陶恕)We tend by a secret law of the soul to move toward our mental image of God.(Aiden Wilson Tozer)
- 說我們是按神形象造的,等於是說愛就是我們存在的原因,因為神就是愛。(金碧士,《效法基督》的作者)To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.(Thomas a Kempis)
- 倘若人不是按神形象造的,那麼我們就沒有什麼理由能反對殘酷無情了,也沒什麼好理由能說人類是特別的,那樣,人類生命就變成廉價的了。我們可以在今天社會上許多重要主題的爭議中,看到這件事。(薛福,福音派神學家)If man is not made in the image of God, nothing then stands in the way of inhumanity. There is no good reason why mankind should be perceived as special. Human life is cheapened. We can see this in many of the major issues being debated in our society today.(Francis Schaeffer)