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    Adam and Jesus: How They Are Related
    Adam and Jesus: How They Are Related
    Adam and Jesus: How They Are Related
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    Adam and Jesus: How They Are Related

    By Edwin Walhout

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    If Adam and Eve are not historical individuals, the first parents of the human race, does it follow that we cannot regard Jesus as an historical individual? Here is a reasoned explanation of how to understand the relationship of Adam and Jesus, without presupposing Adam to be an historical person. It builds on Paul’s explanation that Adam is a type of the one who is to come.

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    PublisherEdwin Walhout
    Release dateDec 8, 2014
    ISBN9781311912336
    Adam and Jesus: How They Are Related
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    Edwin Walhout

    I am a retired minister of the Christian Reformed Church, living in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Being retired from professional life, I am now free to explore theology without the constraints of ecclesiastical loyalties. You will be challenged by the ebooks I am supplying on Smashwords.

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      Adam and Jesus - Edwin Walhout

      ADAM AND JESUS

      How They Are Related

      by Edwin Walhout

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2014 Edwin Walhout

      Cover design by Amy Cole

      See Smashwords.com for additional titles by this author.

      Biblical quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version.

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      CONTENTS

      Chapter 1: Adam the Type of Jesus

      Chapter 2: Genesis One

      Chapter 3: Genesis Two

      Chapter 4: Genesis Three

      About the Author

      Chapter 1

      ADAM THE TYPE OF JESUS

      "Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man,

      and death came through sin,

      and so death spread to all because all have sinned –

      sin was indeed in the world before the law,

      but sin is not reckoned where there is no law.

      Yet death exercised dominion from Adam to Moses,

      even over those whose sins were not like the transgression of Adam,

      who is a type of the one who was to come."

      (Romans 5:12-14)

      In at least two places the Apostle Paul makes a strong connection between Adam and Jesus: First Corinthians 15 and Romans 5. In the Romans passage Paul describes Adam as the one man who brought sin and death into the world. But in the same context he writes that Adam is a type of the one who was to come, namely Jesus.

      Adam is the one man who typifies Jesus Christ. What does Paul mean? He can’t mean that Jesus sinned just as Adam sinned – Adam is not typical of Jesus in that respect. What then? What is there about Adam that typifies Jesus?

      Paul says they are opposites: what Adam brought into the world, Jesus removes. Adam brought sin and death into the world, Jesus brings obedience and life. Paul wants us to understand the work of Jesus in the light of the work of Adam. What Adam does, Jesus undoes. Or better, what Adam failed to do, Jesus did, namely obey God.

      Elsewhere Paul refers to Jesus as the last Adam; Adam is the first man, Jesus is the second man. Both of them, therefore, should be understood as representing the entire human race. The results of Adam’s life on the human race are one thing, sin and death; the results of Jesus’ life on the human race are another thing, light and life.

      It is important, therefore, to understand the connection between Adam and Jesus in a way that does justice to the Biblical data as well as to the insights that modern science is bringing to our attention.

      THE HISTORICITY OF ADAM AND JESUS

      The problem I wish to address in this pamphlet is the question whether or not it is necessary to regard Adam as a real historical person. It is affirmed by many, for example, that if we deny Adam was a truly historical person we must also deny that Jesus was a true historical person. Is this conclusion valid?

      I do not think it is valid. The evidence for the actual existence of Jesus is substantial and incontrovertible; there is no way we can affirm credibly that Jesus did not exist. But there is no historical evidence, other than the

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