In the Garden

[krazeeboi]

The last Adam is superior to the first Adam. We are being fashioned according to the image of the last Adam.

[ybrown]

krazeeboi said:

The last Adam is superior to the first Adam. We are being fashioned according to the image of the last Adam.

Absolutely and amen!

This is what I see from Scripture.

After creation, all was called good, including Adam and Eve because it was all good for God’s purpose. Good doesn’t necessarily mean perfect, however.

The process of “Let us make man in our image” is now underway. Man has been prepared and by being made in the image of God, has been made an intelligent being as opposed to a four-legged or finned creature.

When God breathed into Adam's nostrils, Adam became a living nephesh, a living soul. Adam, as he came from the hand of the Creator, was totally unfit for eternal life in the kingdom of God and had not yet 'put on immortality.'

The entire passage of 1 Corinthians 15:35-50 provides a great understanding of this.

That breath didn't impart perfection, it imparted life. It only made him alive, not perfect. Without the breath of life, none of us are physically alive. That's why upon death the breath of life returns to God Who gave it.

The Last Adam, a quickening Spirit, makes the walking dead come spiritually alive and He perfects them. The only thing the First Adam could impart was more corruption and death and that’s exactly what we've inherited. The wages of sin is death.

Perfection is a process and that's what the making of man into the image of God is.

Romans 8:29
Because whom He did foreknow, He also did fore-appoint, conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be first-born among many brethren;

We are being conformed to the image of the Son…it is a process and not an instantaneous occurence.

1Co 15:45-49
And so it is written, the first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

First Adam was a natural man, made of corruptible substance, so he lived and died by the words of his wife and the serpent. The Last Adam, the incorruptible, lived and died by every word that proceeded from the mouth of God.

So too will we in our appointed time and order.

[auneeqsol]

I do think that the first Adam was made perfect. In saying that I mean that God had given him the capability to be obedient and to remain pure. Adam would have remained pure and obedient if it had not been for the introduction of sin or evil whichever fromt he enemy. He was without sin at first, but when sin was introduced it presented a challenge to him that he failed.

Even Jesus being human but yet God, he still had the same temptations that we have today , but he chose to remain pure and to not sin, but he was very much flesh as we are, and very much spirit like we have become to be led by through the leading of the Holy Ghost.