The Adams Families
It may be news to some, but the Bible talks about two Adams; the first Adam and the last Adam. What I would like to do is compare the two men. In 1 Corinthians 15:45 we read, “The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.” The last Adam, of course, is Jesus Christ. The first way we can compare the two men is in their temptations. With the first Adam, he failed miserably. Adam plunged the entire human race into sin, suffering and death. As a result of his act of disobedience, he became a sinner. Along with his act of sin along with our mother Eve, we were born sinners, unrighteous and rebellious in our own right. The sin nature the first Adam acquired has been transferred to us. All of the human race is guilty by association and guilty by our own sinful acts of rebellion toward God. Adam was created perfectly by God, but with peccability – the ability to sin. We know this because he did in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 3:6). Contrast t...