Wow, Leon, you ask good questions! When I write down God's Words that I hear so faintly, I am not thinking. I am busy writing down!

Let's see what answer to your important question comes to me right from the top of my head:

I think of our humanity as opposed to inhumanity. We are humane. I see our humanity as more respected than our humanness. I see humanity as referring to us as a whole.

I think our humanness is more about our individuality.

As human beings, we like to eat. We desire this and that, and we make mistakes. Sometimes we get angry. Sometimes we just don't see where we're going. Our bodies age and such. These are part of life. . These may be the sort of wrinkles that God refers to. In fact, there is the expression in English: "I am only human."

I suspect that, in general, humanity is considered higher than our humanness.

I believe God is speaking of the connotations of the words. I don't know what the definitions of the words are or if the definitions help us here.

You want some practical help here for your translation that you want to finish. Does this help? If it doesn't, we can look farther. This is how I see it, Leon.

Hi Leon~ A very good question and I fully agree with Gloria's answer. We tend to think of humanity in terms of how we can all interact here in love and cooperation in spite of coming from so many different countries and cultures.

But our humaness is that which our ego gives us so many lessons to learn, those faults and self-centered thoughts and actions which we excuse by saying, "I'm only human." You might say we see our humanity in positive terms and our humaness in negaitive terms.

Apparently God is saying here that He doesn't see these two aspects of our existence as positive and negative like we do. He sees it all as positive and opportunity to learn and grow. I didn't go to the dictionary definitions either for this one. I hope you can make this distinction in Chinese and also give God's viewpoint that doesn't see the distinction the same way we do.