teaching · New Testament

The last Adam

Where the first man brought death, the last Adam becomes life-giving spirit.

Creation

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grows out of · two humanities

Paul sets the first man and the last Adam side by side: one bearing an image of dust, the other of heaven.

Direct

grows out of · undone by one

As death came through one man's trespass, life comes through one man's obedience — Romans 5 argues the whole story on this parallel.