创一26　神说，我们要按着我们的形像，照着我们的样式造人，使他们管理……。

　　28　神就赐福给他们；又对他们说，要繁衍增多，遍满地面，并制伏这地，也要管理……。
　　在创世记一章里神创造人，是神新造里一个新人的一幅图画。这就是说，旧造是新造的表号、预表。在神的旧造里中心人物是人，在神的新造里也是如此。所以，在旧造和新造中，人都是中心。
　　神创造人是按着祂自己的形像（26），并给人祂的管治权。形像是为着彰显。神要人作祂的彰显。然而，管治权不是彰显的事，而是代表的事。神要人在祂的权柄上代表祂，为祂管理。在旧造中，人被造有神的形像以彰显祂，并有祂的管治权以代表祂（新约总论第七册，二九五页）。

　　Gen. 1:26 And God said, Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them have dominion...

　　28 And God blessed them; and God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion...

　　God's creation of man in Genesis 1 is a picture of the new man in God's new creation. This means that the old creation is a figure, a type, of the new creation. In God's old creation the central character is man. It is the same in God's new creation. Therefore, in both the old creation and the new creation man is the center.

　　God created man in His own image (Gen. 1:26) and then gave man His dominion. Image is for expression. God wants man to be His expression. Dominion, however, is a matter not of expression but of representation. God wants man to represent Him in His authority for His dominion. In the old creation man was created to have God's image to express Him and also to have His dominion to represent Him. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, p. 2302)

　　形像说到神积极的目的，管治权说到神消极的目的。神积极的目的是要人彰显祂，神消极的目的是要人对付祂的仇敌撒但，魔鬼。在宇宙中神有一个难处，就是对付祂的仇敌。因为神的仇敌魔鬼是受造之物，所以神不会直接对付他；祂乃要借着祂创造中的一个造物—人，来对付他。神要借着人来对付祂的仇敌。因此，神创造人有两个目的：积极的目的是人有神的形像以彰显祂；消极的目的是人有神的管治权，以代表祂来对付祂的仇敌。
　　在旧造里所给人的管治权仅限于地上，就是说在旧造中对付神的仇敌只局限于地上。然而，在神的新造中，管治权扩大到全宇宙。最后，召会这新人乃是在神的目的中所要得着的人。神要得着一个人，在旧造中祂所创造的，乃是一个表号，预表，而不是真正的人。真正的人乃是基督借祂包罗万有的死，在十字架上所创造的人，这人称为新人。
　　“新人”这辞使我们想到旧人。旧人没有完成神的双重定旨；然而，在神新造里的新人，的确完成了彰显神并对付神仇敌的双重定旨（新约总论第七册，二九五至二九六页）。
　　神创造了一个团体人，不仅有祂的形像以彰显祂，也运用祂的管治权管理万有以代表祂。神给人管治权，目的是：　征服神的仇敌，那背叛神的撒但；　恢复被撒但所篡窃的地；以及　运用神管理地的权柄，使神的国得以临到地上，神的旨意得以行在地上，神的荣耀得以显在地上（太六10、13下）。
　　神的目的是要人有祂的形像彰显祂，有祂的管治权代表祂，这不是在亚当这头一个人（林前十五45上）—旧人（罗六6）—身上得着完成，乃是在基督这第二个人（林前十五47下与注2）—新人（弗二15与注8）—身上得着完成。这新人是由基督自己作头，以及召会作祂的身体（弗一22~23，林前十二12与注2，西三10~11与11注9）所组成的。这要完全在得胜的信徒身上得着完成，他们活基督，作祂团体的彰显（腓一19~26），并要得着权柄制伏列国，在千年国里与基督一同作王（启二26~27，二十4、6）。这要终极完成于新耶路撒冷，彰显神的形像，有祂的荣耀和祂显出的样子（四3上，二一11、18上），并且运用神的神圣权柄，维持神对全宇宙的管治权，直到永远（24，二二5）（圣经恢复本，创一26注5）。
　　参读：李文集一九七〇年第一册，一一七至一三七页。

　　The image refers to God's positive intention, and dominion to God's negative intention. God's positive intention is that man would express Him, whereas God's negative intention is that man would deal with God's enemy, Satan, the devil. In the universe God has a problem, the problem of dealing with His enemy. Since God's enemy, the devil, is a creature, God will not deal with him directly Himself; instead, He will deal with him by man, a creature of His creation. God deals with His enemy through man. Hence, in God's creation of man there were two intentions. The positive intention is that man would bear God's image for His expression; the negative intention is that man would have God's dominion to represent Him to deal with His enemy.

　　In the old creation the dominion given to man was limited to the earth.

　　This means that in the old creation the dealing with God's enemy was restricted to the earth. However, in God's new creation the dominion has been enlarged to the entire universe.

　　Eventually, the church as the new man is the man in God's intention. God wanted a man, and in the old creation He created a figure, a type, not the real man. The real man is the man Christ created on the cross through His all-inclusive death.

　　The term the new man reminds us of the old man. The old man did not fulfill God's dual purpose. However, the new man in God's new creation does fulfill the twofold purpose of expressing God and dealing with God's enemy. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 2302-2303)

　　God created a corporate man not only to express Himself with His image but also to represent Him by exercising His dominion over all things. God's intention in giving man dominion is (1) to subdue God's enemy, Satan, who rebelled against God; (2) to recover the earth, which was usurped by Satan; and (3) to exercise God's authority over the earth in order that the kingdom of God may come to the earth, the will of God may be done on the earth, and the glory of God may be manifested on the earth (Matt. 6:10, 13b).

　　God's intention that man would express God in His image and represent God with His dominion is fulfilled not in Adam as the first man (1 Cor. 15:45a), the old man (Rom. 6:6), but in Christ as the second man (1 Cor. 15:47b and footnote 2), the new man (Eph. 2:15 and footnote 8), comprising Christ Himself as the Head and the church as His Body (Eph. 1:22-23; 1 Cor. 12:12 and footnote 2; Col. 3:10-11 and footnote 9 on verse 11). It is fully fulfilled in the overcoming believers, who live Christ for His corporate expression (Phil. 1:19-26) and will have authority over the nations and reign as co-kings with Christ in the millennium (Rev. 2:26-27; 20:4, 6). It will ultimately be fulfilled in the New Jerusalem, which will express God's image, having His glory and bearing His appearance (Rev. 4:3a; 21:11, 18a), and also exercise God's divine authority to maintain God's dominion over the entire universe for eternity (Rev. 21:24; 22:5). (Gen. 1:26, footnote 5)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1970, vol. 1, pp. 94-107