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.
and said, Make we man to our image and likeness, and be he sovereign to the fishes of the sea, and to the volatiles of heaven, and to [the] unreasonable beasts of [the] earth, and to each creature, and to each creeping beast or each reptile, which is moved in [the] earth.
And God made of nought a man to his image and likeness; God made of nought a man, to the image of God; God made of nought them, male and female.
And when they heard the voice of the Lord God going in paradise at the wind after midday, Adam and his wife hid them from the face of the Lord God in [the] midst of the trees of paradise.
Therefore as by one man sin entered into this world, and by sin death, and so death passed forth into all men, in which man all men sinned.
as it is written, The first man Adam was made into a soul living, the last Adam into a spirit quickening.
But the first is not that [body] that is spiritual, but that that is beast-like, afterward that that is spiritual.
The first man of earth is earthly; the second man of heaven is heavenly.
Such as the earthly man is, such be the earthly men; and such as the heavenly man is, such be also the heavenly men.
Therefore as we have borne the image of the earthly man, bear we also 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.
A man is born of a woman, and liveth short time, and he is full-filled with many wretchednesses.
Whether a man shall be made just [or justified] in comparison of God? either a man shall be cleaner than his Maker?
What is a man, for thou magni-fiest him? either what settest thou thine heart toward him?
But some man witnessed in a place, and said, What thing is man, that thou art mindful of him, or man’s son, for thou visitest him?
The steps of man be dressed of the Lord; who forsooth of men may 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.
Do ye away by the old living [or after the first living], the old man, that is corrupt by the desires of error;
and be ye renewed [or made new again] in the spirit of your soul;
and clothe ye the new man, which is made after God in rightwiseness and holiness of truth.
enmities in his flesh; and voided the law of commandments by dooms, that he make two in himself into a new man, making peace,
But, thou, man of God, flee these things; but follow thou rightwiseness, piety, faith, charity, patience, mildness.
When I was a little child, I spake as a little child, I understood as a little child, I thought as a little child; but when I was made a man, I avoided/I voided those things that were of a little child.
The Lord seeth the ways of a man; and he beholdeth all his steps.
It pertaineth to man to make ready the soul; and it pertaineth to 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.
The Lord saith these things, Cursed is the man that trusteth in man, and setteth [or putteth] flesh his arm, and his heart goeth away from the Lord.
Therefore guess not that man, that he shall take anything of the Lord.
A man double in soul is unstable in all his ways.
Blame thou not an elder man, but beseech [him] as a father, young men as brethren;