9保罗不是仅仅说召会在神里面,乃是说召会在父神里。除非神是我们的父,否则我们就不能在祂里面。我们不是在神里面被造的,但我们是在祂里面重生的。我们乃是在神之外被造的;这就是说,在神创造时,我们与祂没有什么生机的联结或生命的关系,只有受造之物与创造者之间的关系。创造的结果乃是我们成了神所造之物,而神是我们的创造主。因此,神与我们之间有创造的关系,却没有生命的关系。我们受造时,神的生命并没有进到我们天然的人里面。我们这些神所造的人,并没有神的生命。我们只有受造的生命,就是我们天然人的生命。
9Paul does not merely say that the church is in God; he says that the church is in God the Father. Unless God is our Father, we cannot be in Him. We were not created in God; however, we were regenerated, born again, in Him. We were created outside of God. This means that in creation we did not have any organic union with God or any life relationship with Him. Instead, there was only the relationship between the creature and the Creator… Hence, there is a relationship of creation but no relationship in life…As God’s creatures, we did not have the life of God. We had only our created life, our natural human life.