From Adam to Christ
Not “How” but “Who”
Last week we began a study of what it means to be “truly human.” And we began with the truly human one: Jesus of Nazareth. It is not the case that Adam came first and then, when things went wrong, God sent his Son to be born of a virgin as a reaction to Adam’s sin. This typical way of thinking makes it so that Jesus is made in Adam’s image and—to caricature a bit—turns Jesus into Plan B.
Paul insists in Romans 5 that Adam is made in the image of Christ. In other words, Jesus comes first. This is hard for us to think. We know that Jesus is both truly God and truly human…
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