创世记这卷书的第一个重点－神的心愿与目的
这是启示在创世记一章一节至二章三节。神的心愿与目的是要得着一个团体人，在祂的形像上彰显祂，并带着祂的权柄代表祂。
神复造和进一步创造的主要目的是要得着人，一个团体人，来彰显神
神所创造的人是一个团体人。神并没有创造许多人。神在亚当这一个人里面集体的创造了人类。神创造了亚当，而亚当是一个团体人，集体人。在亚当被造时，我们都被造了。虽然我可能比你早生四十年，我们却是同时被造的。在亚当被造时，我们都被造了，因为我们都集体的在亚当里被造了。我们都包含在亚当里。
神并没有创造单个的人，乃是创造一个团体的人来彰显祂自己。在二十六节神说“使他们”─只有一个人，但代名词是“他们，”这证明这个人是一个团体人。在这节里，“我们”这代名词如何表明神是三一的，“他们”这代名词也照样表明人是团体的。神照着祂自己的形像，按着祂的样式，创造了这样一个团体人，彰显神自己。
里面有神的形像
创世记一章二十六节，我们看见两件事─形像和样式。形像是指里面的东西，样式是指外面的东西。我们都有一些里面的东西－心智、意志和情感，也有外面的样式，就是身体的形状。
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God’s Creation – A Corporate Man (1) — Gen. 1:27
The Main Point of the Book of Genesis – The Desire and Purpose of God
It was revealed in Genesis 1:1 – 2:3 that God’s desire and purpose are to have a corporate man to express Him in His image and to represent Him with His authority.
God’s Restoration and Further Creation Was to Have Man, a Corporate Man, to Express Him
The man God created was a corporate man. God did not create many men. God created mankind collectively in one person, Adam. God created Adam and Adam was a corporate man, a collective man. When Adam was created, we were all created. Although I might have been born forty years earlier than you, we were created at the same time. When Adam was created, we were all created because we were all created collectively in Adam. We were included in Adam.
God did not create an individual man, but a corporate man to express Himself. In verse 26 God said, “Let them” – one man, but the pronoun is “them.” This proves that this man is a corporate man. In this verse, as the pronoun “us” signifies that God is triune, so the pronoun “them” signifies that man is corporate. God created such a corporate man in His own image and after His likeness so that man might express God Himself.
With the Image of God Inwardly
In Genesis 1:26, we find two things – the image and the likeness. We all have something inward – the intellect, the will and the emotion. Outwardly, we have the likeness, the body-form.