12我们为什么强调活神与复活的神之间的区别?……活神虽然可以为人作许多事,活神的性情却无法与人的性情调和。另一面,当复活的神作工时,祂的性情就作到人的性情里。……即使活神为你作了一些事,在这之后,和先前一样,祂还是祂,你还是你。……另一面,当复活的神作工时,祂就借着为人所作的事,把自己传输给人(李常受文集一九五七年第三册,二九页)。
12Why do we stress the distinction between the living God and the God of resurrection?…While the living God can perform many acts on man’s behalf, the nature of the living God cannot blend with the nature of man. When, on the other hand, the God of resurrection works, His very nature is wrought into the nature of man…Even when the living God has performed some act on your behalf, after that act as before it, He is still He, and you are still you… On the other hand, when the God of resurrection works, He communicates Himself to man by that which He does for him. (CWWL, 1957, vol. 3, “The Living God and the God of Resurrection,” pp. 19-20)