3一位早期的教父亚他那修Athanasius论到基督说,『祂成为人,使我们得以成为神。』又说,『话成了肉体,…使我们有分于祂的灵,而得以成为神。』这是神在地上行动的原则。神的行动是在人里面,并藉著人。神的行动是要使人在生命和性情上成为神,却无分于神格。在四福音里,基督只是一个人;但在五旬节那日,在祂受死、复活、升天并降下后,祂从一个人,扩大、扩增到几千个人。(徒二41。)许多人开始在神圣的行动里行动。在四福音里,神是在一个人里行动,但在使徒行传,人却是在神的行动里行动。神与人一同行动。祭司长、长老、经学家、和罗马官长不明白发生在彼得和约翰身上的事,因为他们只知道彼得、约翰是加利利的渔夫。(四13。)但他们却承认这些人所作的事是从神来的;(16;)他们行动时,神就行动。至终,一位大教师迦玛列,就著使徒的事劝告议会(犹太人的最高法庭),说,『不要管这些人,任凭他们罢。因为他们所谋所行的,若是出于人,必遭毁坏;若是出于神,你们就不能毁坏他们,恐怕你们倒要显为是攻击神了。』(五38~39。)
3Athanasius, one of the early church fathers, said concerning Christ, "He was made man that we might be made God," and "The Word was made flesh...that we, partaking of His Spirit, might be deified. " This is the principle of God's move on earth. God's move is in man and through man. God's move is to deify man, making man God in life and in nature but not, of course, in the Godhead. In the four Gospels Christ was just one person, but on the day of Pentecost, after His death, resurrection, ascension, and descension, He was enlarged and expanded from one person into thousands of persons (Acts 2:41). A large group of people began to move in the divine move. In the four Gospels God moved in man's move, but in Acts man moved in God's move. God and man moved together. The chief priests, the elders, the scribes, and the Roman officials did not understand what had happened to Peter and John, because they knew them only as Galilean fishermen (4:13). Nevertheless, they had to admit that what these men did was divine (4:16). When they moved, God moved. Eventually, Gamaliel, a great rabbi, advised the Sanhedrin, the highest court of the Jews, concerning the apostles, saying, " Withdraw from these men and leave them alone; for should this counsel or this work be of men, it will be overthrown; but if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow them, lest you be found to be even fighters against God" (5:38-39).