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你的孩子有没有问过你：神长什么样？或者，是否你自己也会困惑？希伯来书给了我们答案：“（耶稣）是神本体的真像。”

神长什么样？祂像耶稣，正如耶稣像神。对有些人来说，这个回答可能没有什么帮助，因为我们也不知道耶稣长什么样。但这不只是关乎外表。我们知道，耶稣是一个人，因此能确信祂有人的外貌；但这意味着更多。

在约翰福音十四章九节，耶稣说：人看见了我，就是看见了父。同样的，在歌罗西书一章十五节，我们知道：“爱子是那不能看见之神的像”。在耶稣里面，我们看见了神——这一点与神的性情有关。有些圣经版本翻译成：耶稣启示了神本性的“真像”。在耶稣里面，我们认识到神是慈爱、怜悯、充满关切、公平公义的。如果你想知道神看起来像什么，就来仰望耶稣；在祂里面，我们瞥见了神全部的荣耀。

Have you ever been asked by a child, “What does God look like?” Or have you ever wondered about that yourself? Hebrews gives us the answer to this question: “[Jesus is] the exact representation of [God’s] being.”

What does God look like? He looks like Jesus because Jesus looks like God. To some of us this might not sound helpful, because we do not know exactly what Jesus looks like. But this is about more than just a physical appearance. We know that Jesus became a human being, so we can assume things about his physical nature. But this also means much more.

Jesus says in John 14:9, “Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father.” Likewise, we’re told in Colossians 1:15, “The Son is the image of the invisible God.” In Jesus we can see God—and this has to do with God’s character. Jesus reveals “the exact imprint” of God’s nature, as some Bible translations put it. In Jesus we see that God is loving, merciful, caring, just, righteous, and more. In the actions and words of Jesus, we see God’s character.