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Feb 8, 2020 · The answer to your question, I believe, is found in 1 Corinthians 15. 20 But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. 21 For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. 22 For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. 23 But each in turn: Christ, the firstfruits; then, when he comes ...
Jan 4, 2022 · In short, our resurrected bodies are spiritual, imperishable, and raised in glory and power. Through the first Adam, we received our natural bodies, perfectly suited to an earthly environment. However, they became perishable as a consequence of the Fall. Due to disobedience, mankind became mortal. Aging, deterioration, and eventual death now ...
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Jan 4, 2022 · However, the last Adam or the “second Adam”—that is, Christ—is a life-giving Spirit. Just as Adam was the first of the human race, so Christ is the first of those who will be raised from the dead to eternal life. Because Christ rose from the dead, He is “a life-giving spirit” who entered into a new form of existence.
- Adam Was A Historical Person
- Adam Fathered The Entire Human Race
- Verdict: The Historical Adam Matters
Textual Evidence
The early chapters of Genesis sometimes use the word’ādām to mean “humankind” (e.g., Gen. 1:26–27), and since there is clearly a literary structure to those chapters, some have seen the figure of Adam as a literary device, rather than a historical individual. Already a question arises: must we choose? Throughout the Bible we see instances of literary devices used to present historical material: think of Nicodemus coming to Jesus at night, or the emphasis in the Gospels on Jesus’s death at the...
Theological Necessity
We can think of these passages as circumstantial evidence that the biblical authors thought of Adam as a real person in history. Circumstantial evidence is useful and important, but we have something more conclusive. The role Adam plays in Paul’s theology makes Adam’s historical reality integral to the basic storyline of the gospel. And if that is the case, then the historicity of Adam cannot be a side issue, but part and parcel of the foundations of Christian belief. The first exhibit is Rom...
Is There a Third Way?
Denis Alexander has proposed—substantially elaborating on a theory put forward by John Stott (Understanding the Bible, 49)—that there is a way of avoiding the sharp dichotomy between the traditional view of a historical Adam and the view that such a position is now scientifically untenable (Alexander, chs. 9–10). That is, while we should definitely see Adam as a historical figure, we need not believe he was the first human. According to Alexander’s preferred model, anatomically modern humans...
Adam’s Headship over Humanity
Debates about Adam’s relationship to the rest of humanity always tend to come back to the old debate between Augustine and Pelagius. Pelagius hadn’t called the physical connection between Adam and the rest of humanity into question. But he argued, for the purposes of salvation, any such connection was almost entirely irrelevant. According to Pelagius, salvation and damnation are determined by the individual from start to finish: a person is damned, not by virtue of any underlying connection w...
Headship Has Ontological Roots
Once again, Denis Alexander has shrewdly avoided such pitfalls in his synthesis. Proving he is well aware of the imperative theological need to acknowledge Adam as the head of the old humanity, he proposes a different way of integrating that theological fact with his view that Adam was not the first human. The way he does this is simply by divorcing Adam’s legal or federal status as head of humanity from any notion that Adam was the natural head or father of the human race. At some point, the...
Christ Took on Our Humanity
Even before Gregory Nazianzen neatly articulated it, a good part of the Christology of the early post-apostolic church was shaped by this thought: whatever Christ did not assume in his incarnation could not be “healed” or saved (Schaff, 438). In essence it was an attempt to systematize the thought of Hebrews 2:11–17, that Jesus had to be onewith those he came to save, sharing their flesh and blood so that this very flesh and blood could be taken through the curse of death into the new life of...
When theological doctrines are detached from historical moorings, they are always easier to harmonize with other data and ideologies. And, of course, there are a good many doctrines that are not directly historical by nature. It has been my contention that the identity of Adam, and his role as the physical progenitor of the human race, are not such...
- Linked To Christ. The resurrected body of the believer will, in some ways, be like the resurrected body of Christ. John said. Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we shall be.
- Literal Bodies. The resurrection of believers will be just like that of Christ - both bodily and literal. Then He [Jesus] said to Thomas, 'Reach your finger here, and look at My hands; and reach your hand here, and put it into My side.
- Not Limited Capacity. The new bodies of believers will have new capacities. Jesus' body was able to suddenly appear in a locked room. And after eight days His disciples were again inside, and Thomas with them.
- A Transformed Body. The Bible teaches that we will receive a transformed body. And what you sow, you do not sow that body that shall be, but mere grain - perhaps wheat or some other grain.
Jan 28, 2022 · Jesus resurrected three people during his ministry on earth. He raised the widow of Nain’s son (Luke 7:11-17), the daughter of Jairus (Matthew 9:18-26, Mark 5:21-43, Luke 8:40-56), and Lazarus (John 11:1-44). Although these individuals were given an extended life on earth, they would each still face death again.
Jan 23, 2006 · The resurrection of the body will occur at the end of the age when Christ returns. There are two main ways the Scriptures indicate this. First, many verses teach that our resurrected bodies will be the same bodies that we have now, except transformed into an immortal state. Since God does not create new bodies for us from scratch, but rather ...
