Homem
A Bíblia fala sobre o homem como criação de Deus — feito à sua imagem e semelhança, mas também frágil, mortal e necessitado de redenção.
Criado à imagem de Deus
Deus criou o homem à sua imagem. Mas pelo pecado, o homem caiu e passou a depender da graça para ser restaurado.
Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness. They will rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the livestock, the whole earth, and the creatures that crawl on the earth."
So God created man in his own image;
he created him in the image of God;
he created them male and female.
Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, in this way death spread to all people, because all sinned.
So it is written, The first man Adam became a living being; , the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, then the spiritual.
The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. Like the man of dust, so are those who are of the dust; like the man of heaven, so are those who are of heaven. And just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we will also bear the image of the man of heaven.
Fragilidade humana
O homem nascido de mulher é de poucos dias e cheio de inquietação. Deus conhece nossa fragilidade e cuida de nós.
Anyone born of woman
is short of days and full of trouble.
"Can a mortal be righteous before God?
Can a man be more pure than his Maker? "
What is a mere human, that you think so highly of him
and pay so much attention to him?
But someone somewhere has testified:
What is man that you remember him,
or the son of man that you care for him?
Even a courageous person’s steps are determined by the Lord,
so how can anyone understand his own way?
Renovação e chamado
Despojados do velho homem e revestidos do novo, somos chamados a buscar a justiça, a piedade e o amor.
to take off , your former way of life, the old self that is corrupted by deceitful desires, to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on , the new self, the one created according to God’s likeness in righteousness and purity of the truth.
he made of no effect the law consisting of commands and expressed in regulations, so that he might create in himself one new man from the two, resulting in peace.
But you, man of God, flee from these things, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance, and gentleness.
When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put aside childish things.
For a man’s ways are before the Lord’s eyes,
and he considers all his paths.
The reflections of the heart belong to mankind,
but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.
A confiança errada
Maldito o homem que confia no homem. O homem de duplo ânimo é instável em todos os seus caminhos.
This is what the Lord says:
Cursed is the person who trusts in mankind.
He makes human flesh his strength,
and his heart turns from the Lord.
That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord, being double-minded and unstable in all his ways. ,
Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father, younger men as brothers,