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上帝说我是谁?按祂的形象所造,被爱,是祂的孩子



  • 上帝说每个人都是按祂的形象所造,因此拥有“不仅仅是某种东西,而是某个人”的尊严。
  • 圣经称我们为罪人,但从不孤立地使用这个词:“惟有基督在我们还作罪人的时候为我们死”(罗马书 5:8)。
  • 通过对基督的信仰,信徒成为上帝的儿女和后嗣,成为新造的人和被拣选的子民,他们的“生命与基督一同藏在上帝里面”(歌罗西书 3:3)。
  • 当彼得说出耶稣是谁时,耶稣告诉彼得他名字的含义:“我要把我的教会建造在这磐石上。”
  • 天主教徒和圣公会信徒谈论我们在洗礼中的领养,东正教徒谈论通过恩典分享上帝的生命(神化),而归正宗教会则谈论身心都属于基督。
  • 当摩西问“我是什么人?”时,上帝回答说:“我必与你同在”,并告诉他上帝是谁。
  • 我们的感觉会变,但上帝对我们的话语永存:“我曾提你的名召你,你是属我的”(以赛亚书 43:1)。

God says you are made in his image, loved while you were still a sinner, and, through faith in Christ, his own child. “Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God” (1 John 3:1). In Christ you are also a new creation, and his own. The question is old. Moses asked it at the burning bush, when God sent him to Pharaoh: “Who am I, that I should…

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