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    What you are saying is that Jesus had human nature only, no regard for Father.
    Your imaginations are running whild here LOL.
    Naturally I have regard for the Father.
    Do you have no regard for him for producing the 1st Adam?
    Did the 1st Adam have 2 natures?
    He is a 2nd Adam or he is not, which is it

    You’re showing you lack of understanding of the meaning of the 2 Adam’s
    The Rabbinical explanation of that passage was that God breathed into man the breath of life originally, but that man became only a living soul, one in whom the mere human faculties held and not the spirit. He became this lower thing by his own act of disobedience. Hence St. Paul, contrasts the two Adams, the first man and Christ—from whom we derive our natural and our spiritual natures, and our natural and spiritual bodies. Where the first Adam became, by his disobedience, a mere living soul, and from him we inherit that nature; the second Adam, by his obedience, became a life-giving spirit, having life in himself, and from Him we inherit the spiritual nature in us.


    So called because Christ was a new starting-point of humanity. Thus, to be in Christ is called a ‘new creation,’ 2 Corinthians 5:17, Galatians 6:15. He is called the ‘new man,’ created after God in righteousness and holiness,’ Ephesians 4:24; Colossians 3:10, Whom we are to ‘put on,’ Romans 13:14; Galatians 3:27. “For being from above and from heaven, and God by nature and Emmanuel, and having received our likeness, and become a second Adam,

    How is Jesus the second Adam?
    In 1 Corinthians 15:45-49 we read that Jesus is the 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." In what ways is Jesus the second Adam?

    The 1 Corinthians 15 passage shares the following similarities: First, Adam was a living being; Jesus is a life-giving being. Second, Adam was from the dust; Jesus, the second Adam, is from heaven. This passage shows that just as Adam was a natural being and Jesus was a spiritual being, so we likewise must be changed from a natural being to a spiritual being, transformed through Jesus Christ.

    The larger context of this chapter speaks of the future resurrection of believers and the kind of body believers will have. The resurrected body will be like the resurrected body of Jesus, not like the physical bodies people have in this life. First Corinthians 15:56-57 state, "The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ."

    Further, earlier in the chapter Paul noted, "For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive" (1 Corinthians 15:21-22). This comparison and contrast demonstrates that through Adam, we experience death. But through Christ, we experience life.

    The apostle Paul also addresses this issue in Romans 5. Verses 14-15 explain, "Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come. But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man's trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many." Adam represented a man who would die. Jesus represents one who brings life.

    Jesus is the second Adam as the one who came to bring life, the first among those redeemed through Christ. It is through Jesus that sin's condemning power is broken, offering new life and eternal life through Him.
 
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