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 mankind in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the livestock and over all the earth, and over every crawling thing that crawls 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.
Now 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 through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all mankind, because all sinned—
So also it is written: "The first man, Adam, became a livingperson." The last Adam was a life-giving spirit. However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural; then the spiritual. The first man is from the earth, earthy; the second Man is from heaven. As is the earthy one, so also are those who are earthy; and as is the heavenly One, so also are those who are heavenly. Just as we have borne the image of the earthy, we will 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.
"Man, who is born of woman,
Is short-lived and full of turmoil.
‘Can mankind be righteous before God?
Can a man be pure before his Maker?
"What is man that You exalt him,
And that You are concerned about him,
But someone has testified somewhere, saying,
"What is man, that You think of him?
Or a son of man, that You are concerned about him?
A man’s steps are ordained by the Lord;
How then can a person 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.
that, in reference to your former way of life, you are to rid yourselves of the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit, and that you are to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.
by abolishing in His flesh the hostility, which is the Law composed of commandments expressed in ordinances, so that in Himself He might make the two one new person, in this way establishing peace;
But flee from these things, you man of God, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.
When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.
For the ways of everyone are before the eyes of the Lord,
And He observes all his paths.
The plans of the heart belong to a person,
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 man who trusts in mankind
And makes flesh his strength,
And whose heart turns away from the Lord.
For that person ought not to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord, being a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
Do not sharply rebuke an older man, but rather appeal to him as a father, and to the younger men as brothers,