17今天有些人反对我们用神人一词来描述基督。有些人甚至反对到一个地步指责我们在基督的身位上是异端。这样指责我们的人，对真理没有完全的认识，他们的神学是肤浅的、传统的、天然的、宗教的、不足的，甚至是迷信的。他们没有摸著神对基督启示的深处。有些圣经教师宣称，虽然基督在为人的生活里是神也是人，但祂复活以后，就不再是人了。他们确实相信基督现今不再是人了，祂既是复活者，就不再有人的性情。弟兄会中有些杰出的教师，为著基督复活、升天以后仍带著人性的真理而争战。司提反殉道时的经历证实主耶稣仍然是人。根据行传七章五十五节，他『定睛望天，看见神的荣耀，又看见耶稣站在神的右边。』然后他作见证说：『我看见天开了，人子站在神的右边。』（56。）这证明基督复活、升天以后，仍然是人。主复活的那一天，把祂的右手和被刺的肋旁给门徒看，这也证明祂仍有属人的性情。我们必须从肤浅的神学转到圣经完全的启示上。照圣经来看，基督直到永远是神，也是人，祂是由皂荚木包上精金所作的约柜来豫表的。2皂荚木里外都包上金子皂荚木里外都包上金子，这表征神圣性情与属人性情的调和─神与人成为一。这也表征神圣的性情渗进属人的性情里，也留在属人的性情里，好藉著属人的性情而得著彰显。如果只有约柜的外面包上金子，这只是表征联合，而不是调和。调和乃是由皂荚木里外都包上金子所表征的。皂荚木在两层金子中间，这就是调和。在圣经里，调和的另一个例子是利未记二章所描述的素祭。素祭的基本成分是细面和油。油与细面调和，也浇在细面上面。细面在油里面，油也在细面里。照样，在我们与主的关系上，我们是在神里面，神也是在我们里面。这个调和由细面调油的素祭所豫表，也由皂荚木里外包金的见证之柜所豫表。两种豫表都不仅仅是指联合，更是指调和说的。今天有些人反对『我们这些神的儿女能与祂调和』这个教训，他们宣称：教导信徒与神调和，就是教导说，我们实际上把自己变成神了。无疑地，我们这些神的子民，就是由神而生的人，的的确确有神的生命和性情。彼得后书一章四节说，我们与神的性情有分。一个孩子怎么会没有父亲的生命和性情？同样的原则，我们是神的真儿女，由神而生，在生命上、性情上，怎么会与祂不一样？我再说，我们既为神的儿女，就的的确确有神的生命和性情。虽然我们有分于神的神性，但我们绝不会达到神格，也不可能被人当作神来敬拜。说我们会达到神格，并被人当作神来敬拜，乃是亵渎。但否认在基督里的真信徒有神圣的生命和性情，也是一个严重的错误。耶稣基督乃是神人，就是神与人的调和，祂是真神，又是真人。有些反对我们教导神人调和的人说，调和的结果产生第三种性情，不完全是属神的，也不完全是属人的。这是谬论，我们都要弃绝。约柜的皂荚木包上了精金，并没有产生出第三种性情来。照样，油与细面调和，也没有产生出第三种性情，不完全是油也不完全是面的东西。基督只有一个身位，却有两种性情，就是神圣的性情与属人的性情。虽然神性与人性调和，但这里并没有第三种性情。我们的确没有教导人说：基督不完全是神，也不完全是人。我们却根据圣经教导说：祂是神，也是人，因此，祂乃是神人。
17Today some oppose our use of the term God - man to describe Christ. Some even go so far as to charge us with heresy concerning the Person of Christ. Those who make this accusation do not have the full knowledge of the truth. Their theology is superficial, traditional, natural, religious, inadequate, and even superstitious. They have not touched the depths of God’sr evelation concerning Christ. Certain Bible teachers claim that, although Christ was both God and man in His human living, after His resurrection He was no longer a man. They actually believe that Christ is now no longer a man, that as the resurrected One He no longer possesses a human nature. Some of the outstanding teachers among the Brethren fought the battle for the truth concerning Christ’s humanity after His resurrection and ascension. Stephen’s experience at the time of his martyrdom proves that the Lord Jesus is still a man. According to Acts 7:55, “looking intently into heaven, he saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.” Then he testified, “Behold I see the heavens opened up and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God” (v. 56). This proves that, after His resurrection and ascension, Christ is still a man. On the day of His resurrection the Lord showed His disciples His hands and His pierced side. This also proves that He still has a human nature. We need to turn from superficial theology to the full revelation in the Scriptures. According to the Bible, for eternity Christ will be both God and man. He is typified by the ark made of acacia wood overlaid with pure gold. 2. Overlaying the Acacia Wood Inside and Outside The acacia wood was overlaid with gold both inside and outside. This signifies the divine nature mingled with the human nature—God and man becoming one. This also signifies that the divine nature penetrates the human nature and also rests on the human nature so that it may be expressed through the human nature. If only the outside of the ark had been overlaid with gold, this would have signified joining instead of mingling. Mingling is signified by the fact that the acacia wood was overlaid with gold both inside and outside. The acacia wood was between two layers of gold. This is mingling. Another illustration of mingling in the Bible is in the meal offering described in Leviticus 2. The basic elements of the meal offering were fine flour and oil. The oil was mingled with the fine flour and also poured upon it. The fine flour is in the oil, and the oil is in the fine flour. Like wise, in our relationship with the Lord, we are in God, and God is in us. This mingling is typified both by the meal offering with the oil mingled with the flour and by the ark of the testimony with the acacia wood overlaid inside and outside with gold. Both types point not merely to joining, but to mingling. Today some oppose the teaching that as children of God we are mingled with Him. They claim that to teach that the believers are mingled with God is to teach that we actually make ourselves God Himself. There is no doubt that as God’s redeemed people, those who have been born of Him, we do possess God’s life and nature. Second Peter 1:4 says that we are partakers of the divine nature. How can a child not have the life and nature of his father? In the same principle, how can we be genuine children of God, those born of Him, and not be the same as He in life and in nature? To repeat, as children of God, we do have the life and nature of God. But although we share in God’s divinity, we shall never attain to the Godhead or be worshipped as God. To say that we shall attain to the very Godhead and be worshipped as God is blasphemy. But it is also a serious error to deny the fact that the genuine believers in Christ have the divine life and nature. Jesus Christ is the God-man, the mingling of God with man. He is true God and a true man as well. Some who oppose our teaching concerning the mingling of God with man claim that mingling entails the producing of a third nature, a nature which is neither altogether divine nor completely human. This is nonsense, and we repudiate it. When the acacia wood of the ark was overlaid with pure gold, there was no third nature produced. Likewise, when the oil is mingled with the fine flour, a third nature, something which is neither altogether oil nor flour, does not come into being. Christ is one Person with two natures, a divine nature and a human nature. Although divinity and humanity are mingled, this does not involve a third nature. We certainly do not teach that Christ was neither fully God nor fully man. According to the Bible, we teach that He is both God and man, hence, a God-man.