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 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 fowl of the air and over the beasts and over all the earth and over every serpent that moves upon the earth.27 So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
8 And they heard the voice 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.
12 Therefore, in the manner which sin entered into the world by one man, and because of sin, death; and so death passed upon all men in the one in whom all sinned.
45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam [was made] a life-giving Spirit.46 Howbeit the spiritual is not first, but the natural; and afterward, that which is spiritual.47 The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man [is] the Lord of heaven.48 As [is] the earthy, such [are] those also that are earthy; and as [is] the heavenly, such also [are] those that are heavenly.49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear 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 [that is] born of a woman [is] of few days and full of trouble.
17 Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his maker?
17 What [is] man that thou should magnify him and that thou should set thine heart upon him
6 But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou dost visit him?
24 Man's steps [are] of the LORD; how can a man then 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 that ye put off [everything] concerning the old way of life, [that is], the old man who corrupts himself according to deceitful desires,23 and be renewed in the spirit of your understanding24 and that ye put on the new man, which is created in conformity to God in righteousness and in the holiness of the truth.
15 abolishing in his flesh the enmity, [which was] the law of commandments in the order of rites, to edify in himself the two in one new man, making peace,
11 But thou, O man of God, flee these things and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, charity, tolerance, meekness.
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 childish things.
21 For the ways of man [are] before the eyes of the LORD, and he weighs all his goings.
1 Of man [are] the preparations of the heart, 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.
5 Thus hath the LORD said; Cursed [be] the man that trusts in man and makes flesh his arm and whose heart departs from the LORD.
7 For let not such [a] man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord.8 The double minded man [is] unstable in all his ways.
1 Rebuke not an elder, but intreat [him] as a father, [and] the younger men as brethren,