Romans chapter 5, verses 12 to 21. This is the passage that when you read it in your normal study, you tend to perhaps be overwhelmed by the redundancy and the seeming confusion in what is being said. An analogy is being drawn, a type is being pictured: Adam and Christ, but it is an antithetical type. There is a point of comparison out of which flow a string of contrasts. How can one man provide justification for all men? Paul draws the comparison with Adam. Well, it's the same way that one man could provide condemnation for all men. The first man, Adam, became a living soul.' The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. So, the contrast or the comparison is between the two heads of the race, the first Adam and the last Adam. The first Adam is Adam in the Garden of Eden, the last Adam is Jesus Christ. Both literal, historical figures. So, we have two men who are the heads of the race, if you will, they have acted as our representatives.
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In the fall of 1969, Gil began a full-time teaching ministry as Senior Pastor of Indian Hills Community Church. He also earned his Ph.D. from the California Graduate School of Theology. The focus of Pastor Rugh’s ministry is systematic, verse-by-verse teaching of the Bible. As a...