创一26 神说，我们要按着我们的形像，照着我们的样式造人…。

　　约一12 凡接受祂的，就是信入祂名的人，祂就赐他们权柄，成为神的儿女。

　　Gen. 1:26 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.

　　John 1:12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the authority to become children of God, to those who believe into His name,

　　神完整的救恩有法理与生机的两面。什么是生机的，什么是法理的，这不太容易懂。但我们看见法理有一个“法”字，总是关乎律法的；生机有一个“生”字，总是关乎生命的。所以神完整的救恩有法理的一面，就是关乎律法的一面；也有生机的一面，就是关乎生命的一面。

　　我们都知道神爱世人，爱到一个地步，甚至将祂的独生子赐给他们，叫他们得永远的生命（约三16）。神将祂的独生子赐给世人，乃为叫他们因着信入祂、接受祂，而得永远的生命。神在永远里就有一个心爱的美意，要与人合一，甚至要把人作得和祂一样，成为祂的种类。因此，神就在创造人时，按着自己的形像，照着自己的样式造人，使人成为盛装祂的器皿。祂造植物、动物都是各从其类，惟独造人是按祂自己的形像，照祂自己的样式（创一11～12，20～21，24～27）。形像是里面的，样式是外面的。神既这样造了人，请问这位受造的亚当是人还是神？不错，他是人，但他有神的形像，有神的样式；所以在创造的时候，这种神人的思想就已经在那里了。

　　神爱世人，甚至要用祂的生命把人作得和祂一样；但是人受了撒但的引诱，以致犯罪堕落，干犯了神的公义。人不是干犯神的恩，也不是干犯神的爱，乃是干犯神的公义。照全本圣经来看，神的公义就是神作事的法则；凡神所行所为都是公义的。并且神这个公义，就是祂宝座的根基（诗八九14），是最严格的。所以我们看见这里有两件东西：一是神的爱，一是神的义。按着神的爱，祂要把人作得和祂一样；但人犯罪，干犯了神的公义。神的公义是严格的；神所要为人作的一切，都必须合乎祂公义的要求。公义一有要求，就成了律法。所以圣经给我们看见，在神创造人，而人堕落以后，过了一段时间，神就来给人律法。神的律法乃是根据神的公义写的，根据神的公义立的。神是公义的，所以祂所立的律法条条都是公义的，都是公义的要求，也就成了公义的律法（罗八4上，九31）。

　　所以神照着祂的心爱…〔并〕照祂生命的生机，要为人所作的一切，都必须照神公义的要求，在法理上将堕落的罪人救赎回来。神的公义要求神赎回那些罪人。…神将罪人救赎回来，祂就可以在法理上自由的照祂的心愿，凭祂的生机所能的，为所欲为。“为所欲为”这四个字好像不大正面，怎能说神可以为所欲为？…所以在圣经里，我们看见强盗得救（路二三39～43），也看见妓女得救（太二一31～32，参路七37，约四17～18）。神今天实在是可以为所欲为。因此，神完整的救恩就有照法理所需要的救赎，并凭神生命的生机所能完成的拯救。我们必须分别救赎、拯救和救恩，这三个“救”。救赎是法理上的，拯救是生机上的，二者合起来就是完整的救恩（神救恩生机的一面，四至七页）。

　　The complete salvation of God has two aspects: the judicial aspect and the organic aspect. It is not that easy to understand what organic is and what judicial is. However, by the word judicial we know it has something to do with the law, and by the word organic we know it has something to do with life. Therefore, God's complete salvation has both the judicial aspect, an aspect related to the law, and the organic aspect, an aspect related to life.

　　We all know that God so loved the people of the world that He gave His only begotten Son to them that they may have eternal life (John 3:16). God gave His only begotten Son to the people of the world that they may receive eternal life by believing into Him and receiving Him. In eternity God had a good pleasure, His heart's desire, to be one with man, even to make man the same as He to be His species. Hence, in the creation of man He created man in His image and after His likeness for man to become a vessel to contain Him. He created the plants and the animals each after their own kind; when He created man, however, He created him in His image and after His likeness (Gen. 1:11-12, 20-21, 24-27). Image is something inward and likeness is something outward. Since God created man in that way, was the created Adam man or God? Yes, he was a man but he had God's image and God's likeness. Therefore, at the time of creation, the idea concerning a God-man was already there.

　　God so loved the people of the world that He even wanted to make man the same as He is by His life. Yet man was seduced by Satan and became fallen by committing sin; thus, man violated the righteousness of God. What man violated was not God's grace or God's love but God's righteousness. According to the entire Holy Scriptures, God's righteousness is God's principle of doing things. Whatever God does is righteous, and His righteousness as the foundation of His throne (Psa. 89:14) is the strictest. Therefore, we see two things here: God's love and God's righteousness. According to His love, God wants to make man the same as He is. However, man sinned and violated God's righteousness. God's righteousness is strict; whatever God wants to do for man must meet the requirement of His righteousness. Whatever is required by righteousness becomes the law. Therefore, the Bible shows us that after God's creation of man and man's fall, after a period of time, God came to give man the law. The law of God was written and enacted according to His righteousness. Since God is righteous, every item of the law enacted by Him is righteous, and every item is a righteous requirement; hence, the law becomes the law of righteousness (Rom. 8:4a; 9:31).

　　Therefore, concerning all that God wants to do for man according to His heart's desire, there is a great need judicially. All that God wants to do for man organically according to His life requires that God redeem the fallen sinners back judicially according to His righteous requirement. God's righteousness requires that God redeem the sinners. It is as if God's righteousness says to God, “O God, it is good that You love them, and it is also good that You desire to carry out many things in them organically. But You must first redeem them to satisfy the requirements of Your righteous law.” This is redemption. By redeeming the sinners judicially, God may freely do as He pleases by His life organically according to His heart's desire. “To do as one pleases” does not sound very positive. How can we say that God may do as He pleases? Yes, indeed, because of His redemption, today our God may do as He pleases. If He wants to save a robber, He may do so; if He wants to save a prostitute, He may also do so. Hence, in the Bible we see a robber saved (Luke 23:39-43) and we also see harlots saved (Matt. 21:31-32; cf. Luke 7:37; John 4:17-18). Today God truly may do as He pleases. Thus, God's complete salvation comprises the redemption required judicially and the salvation accomplished through God's life organically. We need to distinguish between these three things: God's redemption, which is judicial; God's salvation, which is organic; and God's complete salvation, which is the totality of God's redemption and God's salvation.