Resumo de Bible

During the genesis, God created
Man in His image. But an image is always imperfect. At that moment (when the
account was written), for the people to know, the leaders would place statues
in public places of the cities. The word ?image? derives a bit from this sense.
A translation is always an approximation of the reality of the text, which is
also an approximation of the reality that occurred in a moment, a place in
history, a different geography. It is in this context that the account tries to
describe to us the reality of God, the reality which is prevalent and at the
same time, inaccessible ? a living reality which speaks to us with an action no
less living in spirit. I close this bracket. An image can thus reflect, in its
sense, the executive character of the divine plan. This trait of the character
is absent in the animal. The text also speaks of the resemblance, if there is a
resemblance, or dissimilarity. He has created them male and female. Here is the
difference with the other animals of the realm which is more underlined. The
being is neither perfectly God, nor perfectly animal. Male and female also
underline the complementarity and not the opposition. For realizing the
complementarity, man has to live in relation with woman. Pushing this reasoning
further for its complete realization, I say without imposing myself on the text
that man has to live in relation also with God and with animals, because the
proper nature of animals is divine, man cannot realize this union by himself if
he does not live in a harmonious relation with God and with other creatures.
The union rests on this relation of the trilogy ? God, opposite sex, nature. In
the test, God has mostly spoken to submit to the other animal species. In this
point of view, the submission is more of a research on unity, harmony and
accomplishment ? individual and collective; to harmonize and unify the proper
animal and sexual nature with the profound divine nature. This is the internal
agitation or combat which will determine the relation of the human with the
environment. God of the Old Testament is a liberating God, a God who wants to
abolish slavery. This concept of God supports the idea of discovering a greater
harmony or unity in relation of man with nature, as well as on the strata of
the intrinsic and the extrinsic, rather than as an aggressive domination of man
on nature. This aggressive domination can only move us away from harmony or
unity and return us to the original state of chaos.

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