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起初，人类有一个由上帝创造的美丽世界，让祂的受造物繁衍生息。亚当和夏娃可以“在园子里行走”，（参创 3:8）与上帝面对面并同行，享受着与造物主完美的陪伴。但后来他们陷入了罪中，背弃了上帝的道路，被逐出了上帝的伊甸之家。

从那时起，人类就一直在寻找回归的途径。对于我们中的许多人来说，我们自然而然地认为自己可以找到回归之路，我们可以按照自己的方式寻找上帝。或许如果我们足够优秀、足够聪明，或者比别人更优秀，也许我们就能回家——至少我们是这么想的。

然而，《圣经》中的好消息告诉说，尽管我们对上帝的追寻没有结果，但上帝仍以恩典和爱向我们伸出援手。尽管我们因罪和死亡而生活在黑暗的深渊中，但上帝的光照亮了我们的生活，藉着基督的来临给了我们新的希望。

在耶稣里，“道……住在我们中间”。我们无法找到通往上帝的回家之路，但是，在耶稣里，上帝与我们同在，使我们能够得救，并与祂完美地生活在一起。

In the beginning, humanity had a beautiful home created by God for his creatures to flourish in. Adam and Eve were able to meet with God and walk with him "in the garden in the cool of the day" ,(Genesis 3:8) and they enjoyed perfect companionship with their Creator. But then they fell into sin, turning their backs on God's way, and they were banished from their home in God's garden.

Ever since then, humanity has been seeking ways to return. For many of us, our natural default is to imagine that we can find our own way back, that we can seek God on our own terms. If we are just good enough, or smart enough, or perhaps just better than the next person, then maybe we can make it home—or so we think.

The good-news message of the Bible explains, however, that even though our seeking after God is fruitless, God reaches out in grace and love to us. Though we live in the depths of darkness because of sin and death, the power of God's light shines into our lives, giving us new hope in the coming of Christ.

In Jesus, "the Word …made his dwelling among us." We could not find our way home to God, but, in Jesus, God has made his home with us so that we can be saved and live fully with him.