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.
26 And he said: Let us make man to our image and likeness: and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that moveth upon the earth.27 And God created man to his own image: to the image of God he created him: male and female he created them.
8 And when they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in paradise at the afternoon air, Adam and his wife hid themselves from the face of the Lord God, amidst the trees of paradise.
12 Wherefore as by one man sin entered into this world, and by sin death; and so death passed upon all men, in whom all have sinned.
45 The first man Adam was made into a living soul; the last Adam into a quickening spirit.46 Yet that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; afterwards that which is spiritual.47 The first man was of the earth, earthly: the second man, from heaven, heavenly.48 Such as is the earthly, such also are the earthly: and such as is the heavenly, such also are they that are heavenly.49 Therefore as we have borne the image of the earthly, let us bear also the image of the heavenly.
Fragilidade humana
O homem nascido de mulher é de poucos dias e cheio de inquietação. Deus conhece nossa fragilidade e cuida de nós.
1 Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries.
17 Shall man be justified in comparison of God, or shall a man be more pure than his maker?
17 What is a man that thou shouldst magnify him? or why dost thou set thy heart upon him?
6 But one in a certain place hath testified, saying: What is man, that thou art mindful of him: or the son of man, that thou visitest him?
24 The steps of man are guided by the Lord: but who is the man that can 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.
22 To put off, according to former conversation, the old man, who is corrupted according to the desire of error.23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind:24 And put on the new man, who according to God is created in justice and holiness of truth.
15 Making void the law of commandments contained in decrees; that he might make the two in himself into one new man, making peace;
11 But thou, O man of God, fly these things: and pursue justice, godliness, faith, charity, patience, mildness.
11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. But, when I became a man, I put away the things of a child.
21 The Lord beholdeth the ways of man, and considereth all his steps.
1 It is the part of man to prepare the soul: and of the Lord to govern the tongue.
A confiança errada
Maldito o homem que confia no homem. O homem de duplo ânimo é instável em todos os seus caminhos.
5 Thus saith the Lord: Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.
7 Therefore let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.8 A double minded man is inconstant in all his ways.
1 An ancient man rebuke not, but entreat him as a father: young men, as brethren: