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![]() Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven” ( 1Cor 15:45, 47, 49). ![]() The first man was from the earth, a man of dust the second man is from heaven. ![]() “As in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive” ( 1Cor 15:22) “it is written, ‘The first man Adam became a living being’ the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. One reason is Paul's understanding of Jesus as the Second Adam. Why do the early chapters of Genesis assume such significance for patristic and most later Christian theology?Īdam and Christ. The pattern that it provides of creation and fall is not something that the Jews detected in it: for them the fall was not and is not a cataclysmic event in the history of humankind it is but one of many examples of human failure to live within the covenant. It might seem strange that the Fathers invested so much significance in the early chapters of Genesis.
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