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, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—
Thus it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being";the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual. The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall 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.
"Man who is born of a woman
is few of days and full of trouble.
‘Can mortal man be in the right before God?
Can a man be pure before his Maker?
What is man, that you make so much of him,
and that you set your heart on him,
It has been testified somewhere,
"What is man, that you are mindful of him,
or the son of man, that you care for him?
A man’s steps are from the Lord;
how then can man understand his way?
Renovação e chamado
Despojados do velho homem e revestidos do novo, somos chamados a buscar a justiça, a piedade e o amor.
to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace,
But as for you, O man of God, flee these things. Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, 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 gave up childish ways.
For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the Lord,
and he ponders all his paths.
The plans of the heart belong to man,
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.
Thus says the Lord:
"Cursed is the man who trusts in man
and makes flesh his strength,
whose heart turns away from the Lord.
For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers,