The ABC's of the Bible- Adam

Adam was the first man created (see Genesis 2-3). We are all his descendants and thus it was his sin (see Genesis 3) that spread to the rest of mankind, and through sin also comes the judgment of death (see Romans 5:12).

Adam brings both good news and bad news to the Bible. The good news is that God, in love, decided to create a race of people knowing that they would almost immediately fall into rebellion. The bad news is that this rebellion has spread along with the judgment that accompanies it. This judgment is both physical and spiritual in nature.

The good news of the Bible is that God intended all along to send a second Adam.

"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. As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven." (1 Corinthians 15:45-49)

The hope of this second Adam is that he brings hope of a second birth and a second life.