12在旧约里，罪人要就近神，必须先来到祭坛，借着赎罪祭的血使罪得赦。他经历罪得赦免之后，才能进入圣所。这是和好的第一步，罪人借此开始与神和好。这是当时哥林多信徒的光景，也是今天大多数真基督徒的光景。他们已经借着十字架，局部地与神和好了；在十字架上，基督作了我们的赎罪祭而死，流出祂的血洗去我们的罪。我们相信祂的时候，神赦免了我们，我们就与神和好，被带回来归给祂。……然而，我们只是局部地与神和好，还不够彻底。依照圣经，和好的含意远超过仅仅被带回归神。和好乃是被带到神里面。因此，照圣经来看，把人带到神那里，意思就是把他们带到神里面，使他们完全与神成为一。但是在许多基督教的教导中，与神是一这件事受到误解。……就着丈夫与妻子而言，有一种团体的一。但在圣经中，与神是一的意思是与祂调和。这就是在神里面，并且让神进到我们里面。圣经中的与神是一，是一种我们进到神里面、神进到我们里面的一。因此，主耶稣说，“你们要住在我里面，我也住在你们里面。”（约十五4）祂并没有说，“你们要与我同住，我就与你们同住。”有些基督徒竟然反对“借着与神调和而与神是一”这个合乎圣经的奇妙观念，这是何等可惜！ 12In the Old Testament, when a sinner came to God, he first had to come to the altar to have his sins forgiven through the blood of the sin offering. After experiencing the forgiveness of sins, he could enter the Holy Place. This is the first step of reconciliation, the step by which a sinner begins to be reconciled to God. This was the situation of the believers at Corinth, and it is also the situation of most genuine Christians today. They have been reconciled to God in part through the cross upon which Christ died as our sin offering, where He shed His blood to wash away our sins. When we believed in Him, we were forgiven by God, reconciled to Him, and brought back to Him.…However, we have been reconciled to God only partly, halfway. The biblical understanding of reconciliation includes more than merely being brought back to God. It is to be brought [344] back into Him. Therefore, according to the Bible, to bring others to God means to bring them into God and to make them absolutely one with Him. However, in much Christian teaching the matter of oneness with God is wrongly understood.… In the case of a husband and wife, there is a kind of corporate oneness. But in the Bible to be one with God means to be mingled with Him. It is to be in God and to allow God to come into us. Biblical oneness with God is a oneness in which we enter into God and God enters into us. Therefore, the Lord Jesus said, “Abide in Me and I in you” (John 15:4). He did not say, “Abide with Me and I with you.” What a shame that some Christians oppose this wonderful biblical concept of being one with God by being mingled with Him!