Secularized self-esteem promotes self-deception regarding one’s spiritual needs, which can then lead to eternal self-destruction (Kent and Barbara Hughes).
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MAN

MAN

MAN

  1. Made for God # Pr 16:4 Re 4:11
  2. God’s purpose in creation completed by making # Ge 2:5,7
  3. Cannot profit God # Job 22:2 Ps 16:2
  4. Unworthy of God’s favour # Job 7:17 Ps 8:4
  5. CREATED 5a) By God

    # Ge 1:27 Isa 45:12

5b) By Christ # Joh 1:3 Col 1:16 5c) By the Holy Spirit # Job 33:4 5d) After consultation, by the Trinity # Ge 1:26 5e) On the sixth day # Ge 1:31 5f) Upon the earth # De 4:32 Job 20:4 5g) From the dust # Ge 2:7 Job 33:6 5h) In the image of God # Ge 1:26,27 1Co 11:7 5i) After the likeness of God # Ge 1:26 Jas 3:9 5j) Male and female # Ge 1:27 5:2 5k) A living soul # Ge 2:7 1Co 15:45 5l) In uprightness # Ec 7:29 5m) In knowledge (inferred) # Col 3:10 5n) Under obligations to obedience # Ge 2:16,17 5o) A type of Christ # Ro 5:14 6) Approved of by God # Ge 1:31 7) Blessed by God # Ge 1:28 5:2 8) Placed in the garden of Eden # Ge 2:15 9) Every herb and tree given to, for food # Ge 1:29 10) Allowed to eat flesh after the flood # Ge 9:3 11) Not good for, to be alone # Ge 2:18 12) Woman formed to be a help for # Ge 21:2-25 13) POSSESSED OF 13a) A Body # Mt 6:25 13b) A soul # Lu 12:20 Ac 14:22 1Pe 4:19 13c) A spirit # Pr 18:14 20:17 1Co 2:11 13d) Understanding # Eph 1:18 4:18 13e) Will # 1Co 9:17 2Pe 1:21 13f) Affections # 1Ch 29:3 Col 3:2 13g) Conscience # Ro 2:15 1Ti 4:2 13h) Memory # Ge 41:9 1Co 15:2 14) Made by God in his successive generations # Job 10:8-11 31:15 15) Fearfully and wonderfully made # Ps 139:14 16) Of every nation, made of one blood # Ac 17:26 17) Quickened by the breath of God # Ge 2:7 7:22 Job 33:4 18) Made wise by the inspiration of the Almighty # Job 32:8,9 19) Inferior to angels # Ps 8:5 Heb 2:7 20) Is of the earth earthy # 1Co 15:47 21) Nature and constitution of, different from other creatures # 1Co 15:39 22) More valuable than other creatures # Mt 6:26 10:31 12:12 23) Wiser than other creatures # Job 35:11 24) Received dominion over other creatures # Ge 1:28 Ps 8:6-8 25) Gave names to other creatures # Ge 2:19,20 26) Intellect of, matured by age # 1Co 13:11 27) CALLED 27a) The potsherd of the earth # Isa 45:9 27b) A worm # Job 25:6 27c) Vain man # Job 11:12 Jas 2:20 27d) Flesh # Ge 6:12 Joe 2:28 28) COMPARED TO 28a) Grass # Isa 40:6-8 1Pe 1:24 28b) Clay in the potter’s hand # Isa 64:8 Jer 18:2,6 28c) Vanity # Ps 144:4 28d) A sleep # Ps 90:5 28e) A wild ass’s colt # Job 11:12 29) Originally naked and not ashamed # Ge 2:25 30) Disobeyed God by eating part of the forbidden fruit # Ge 3:1-12 31) Filled with shame after the fall # Ge 3:10 32) Covered himself with fig leaves # Ge 3:7 33) Clothed by God with skins # Ge 3:21 34) Punished for disobedience # Ge 3:16-19 35) Banished from paradise # Ge 3:23,24 36) Involved posterity in his ruin # Ro 5:12-19 37) Has sought out many inventions # Ec 7:29 38) Born in sin # Ps 51:5 39) Born to trouble # Job 5:7 40) Has an appointed time on the earth # Job 7:1 41) Days of, compared to a shadow # 1Ch 29:15 42) Days of, as the days of a hireling # Job 7:1 43) Has but few days # Job 14:1 44) Ordinary limit of his life # Ps 90:10 45) Ignorant of what is good for him # Ec 10:2 46) Ignorant of what is to come after him # Ec 10:14 47) Not profited by all his labour and travail # Ec 2:22 6:12 48) Cannot direct his ways # Jer 10:23 Pr 20:24 49) Walks in a vain show # Ps 39:6 50) GOD 50a) Instructs # Ps 94:10 50b) Orders the goings of # Pr 5:21 20:24 50c) Prepares the heart of # Pr 16:1 50d) Enables to speak # Pr 16:1 50e) Preserves # Job 7:20 Ps 36:6 50f) Provides for # Ps 145:15,16 50g) Destroys the hopes of # Job 14:19 50h) Makes the wrath of, to praise him # Ps 76:10 50i) Makes his beauty consume away # Ps 39:11 50j) Turns to destruction # Ps 90:3 51) Cannot be just with God # Job 9:2 25:4 Ps 143:2 Ro 3:20 52) Cannot cleanse himself # Job 15:14 Jer 2:22 53) All the ways of, clean in his own eyes # Pr 16:2 54) CHRIST 54a) Knew what was in # Joh 2:25 54b) Took on him nature of # Joh 1:14 Heb 2:14,16 54c) Made in the image of # Php 2:7 54d) Was found in fashion as # Php 2:8 54e) Approved of God as # Ac 2:22 54f) Called the second, as covenant head of the church # 1Co 15:47 54g) Is the head of every # 1Co 11:3 54h) A refuge as, to sinners # Isa 32:2 54i) As such, is the cause of the resurrection # 1Co 15:21,22 55) Shall be recompensed according to his works # Ps 62:12 Ro 2:6 56) Cannot retain his spirit from death # Ec 8:8 57) Would give all his possessions for the preservation of life # Job 2:4 58) Able to sustain bodily affliction # Pr 18:14 59) Sinks under trouble of mind # Pr 18:14 60) No trust to be placed in # Ps 118:8 Isa 2:22 61) The help of, vain # Ps 60:11 62) The whole duty of # Ec 12:13