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Jesus the new Adam

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1 Corinthians 15:20-22 But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep. For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.

1 Corinthians 15:45-47 Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual. The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven.

	Adam	Jesus
First man of creation	created on the sixth day (Gen 1:27)	resurrection on the eighth day (Mk 16:2), the first day of the new creation (2 Cor 5:17)
No original sin	created as very good (Gen 1:31)	sinless (2 Cor 5:21)
King	had authority, from God, to subdue the earth and have dominion over all living things (Gen 1:28)	King of kings (1 Tim 6:15)
Priest	given duty ro work and keep the garden of Eden i.e. serve and guard God's temple (Gen 2:15)	eternal high priest (Heb 5:10; 7:24)
Prophet	named all the living things for the LORD (Gen 2:19-20)	called himself a prophet (Lk 4:24; 13:33)
Source of his bride	Eve was formed from his rib (Gen 2:22-23)	the Church was formed from his side when he was pierced on the cross and outpoured water and blood (representing the sacraments of Baptism and the Eucharist) (Jn 19:34)
Protector of his bride	watched on as Eve succumbed to the serpent's temptations and then participated in the fall (Gen 3:6)	always with his Church (Mt 28:20) which is guided by the Holy Spirit (Jn 16:13) whom he sends from the Father (Jn 15:26)
Tempted by Satan	succumbed to the serpent's temptations (Gen 3:6)	withstood the testing of the devil and undid the sins of the fall (Lk 4:1-13)
Obedience to God	disobedient in the garden of Eden (Gen 3:6)	submitted in the garden of Gethsemane (Mt 26:39)
Tree imagery	sinned by eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge (Gen 3:6)	bore our sins on a tree, the wooden cross (1 Pet 2:24)
Their actions brought consequences to us	his sin brought death and the loss of the paradise of Eden (Gen 3:22-23)	his sacrifice brought eternal life (Jn 3:16 & Heb 9:12) in the paradise of heaven (Jn 14:1-3)
Nakedness	was unashamedly naked (Gen 2:25) but after the fall was clothed because of his shame of nakedness before the LORD (Gen 3:10,21)	was clothed but on the cross took on the shame of being naked (Jn 19:23)
Called the Woman mother	after the fall, called the Woman Eve, mother of all living (Gen 3:20)	when undoing the effects of the fall while on the cross, he called Mary "Woman" then to the beloved disciple said "your mother" (Jn 19:26)