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; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, 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 Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
Death in Adam, Life in Christ
Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned—
And so it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being." The last Adam becamea life-giving spirit.
However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual. The first man was of the earth, made of dust; the second Man is the Lord from heaven. As was the man of dust, so also are those whoaremade of dust; and as is the heavenly Man, so also are those whoare heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man.
Fragilidade humana
O homem nascido de mulher é de poucos dias e cheio de inquietação. Deus conhece nossa fragilidade e cuida de nós.
"Man whois born of woman
Is of few days and full of trouble.
‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God?
Can a man be more pure than his Maker?
"Whatis man, that You should exalt him,
That You should set Your heart on him,
But one testified in a certain place, saying:
"What is man that You are mindful of him,
Or the son of man that You take care of him?
A man’s steps are of the Lord;
How then can a man 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.
that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.
having abolished in His flesh the enmity, thatis, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace,
The Good Confession
But you, O man of God, flee these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness.
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.
For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord,
And He ponders all his paths.
The preparations 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 departs from the Lord.
For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; heisa double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
Treatment of Church Members
Do not rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father, younger men as brothers,