Adam was contemporary with Methuselah, and Methuselah with Shem, and Shem with Isaac; hence it required but two persons intermediate between Adam and Isaac to recount to the fathers of Israel the history of the world to their own time. Isaac could tell his grandson Levi, and Levi his grandson Moses, and the latter has delivered it unto us, having been guided into all the truth by the Spirit of God.

Herald of the Kingdom and Age to Come, Aug 1857

1 Adam, Sheth [Shet], Enosh,

"Is it possible to be of Adamic nature and not to be under Adamic condemnation? Or is the Adamic nature under condemnation wherever found?"

Answer.—It depends upon the meaning intended by "Adamic." If it means the nature hereditarily derived from Adam, the answer is clear:

"That which is born of (Adamic) flesh is (Adamic) flesh,"

and since Adamic flesh is characterised by the quality of death physically implanted (2 Cor. 1:9; Rom. 7:24; 2 Cor. 5:2–4: Rom. 5:12) it follows that it is in this sense;

"under condemnation wherever found,"

which harmonises with universal experience. Adamic nature in the sense of a nature like that produced in Eden could be produced again. God who made an uncondemned Adamic nature from the ground could make another Adam in the same way, and we should then have Adamic nature not under condemnation.

But such a case is not before your mind. You are thinking of Christ. He was not made of the ground, but "made of a (condemned) woman," and being born of her, was what she was, on the principle defended above and illustrated in other Scriptures.—(Job 14:4; Ps. 51:5.)

If Renunciationist contention were right, Christ ought to have been made straight from the ground as Adam was.

The Christadelphian, Feb 1875

Adam and Christ in Contrast

To bring the substance of the foregoing article into a condensed form, we present the following list of contrasts between the First and Last Adams.

Adam was created from the ground by the Elohim.

Jesus was begotten of the Father direct by the Holy Spirit—not out of the ground, but of a mortal sinful woman.

Adam was a son of God.

Jesus was the only begotten and beloved Son of God.

Adam had no mother.

Jesus had a Jewish Virgin for his mother.

Adam was created free from law.

Jesus was born under the law of Moses.

Adam was never circumcised.

Jesus was circumcised the eighth day.

Adam had no need for baptism.

Jesus was baptised with John's baptism, which was a baptism of repentance for the remission of sin.

Adam came on the scene with relations limited to himself and posterity.

Jesus came into the world for a purpose having reference to a pre-existing race, and having particular reference to the conditions existing among them before he was born.

Adam's sonship was of God only.

Jesus was a Son of Man as well as a Son of God.

Adam was free to live for ever if obedient.

Jesus came into the world for the express purpose of dying.

Adam disobeyed God.

Jesus obeyed in all things.

Adam was the descendant of no one.

Jesus was the Son of David.

Adam was heir to nothing.

Jesus was heir of all things.

Adam was created "very good."

Jesus had to be made physically perfect through sufferings.

Adam having "free life" brought sin and death.

Jesus, made subject to death, brought righteousness and life.

Adam's innocency was untried.

Jesus Christ's innocency was subjected to severe tests.

Adam was created free from any sentence of death.

Jesus was the member of a race which was sentenced to death on account of sin.

Adam, when created, was a natural body free from the principle of death.

Jesus was made of flesh and blood in that state which Paul calls a "body of death."—(Rom. 7:20.)

Adam came into existence before sin.

Jesus was born when sin had been in the world 4,000 years.

Adam was made subject to death by sin.

Jesus was saved from death by righteousness.

Adam, if obedient, could have been immortalised without dying.

Jesus Christ, although obedient, was under the necessity to die before receiving immortality.

Adam had dominion given him over every living creature on the earth, and lost it.

Jesus took upon himself the form of a servant and was at last exalted to be King of kings and the head of all nations.

Adam was not a life-giver.

Jesus was the bread of life sent down from heaven.

Adam, though made in the image of the Elohim, was not a manifestation of God.

Jesus Christ was God manifest in the flesh.

Adam knew no evil till he disobeyed.

Jesus was a man of sorrows until he was highly exalted through loving righteousness and hating iniquity.

Adam brought a free life into the bondage of death.

Jesus Christ abolished death and brought life and immortality to light.

Adam had no mental sorrow or physical pain in his state of innocency.

Jesus was a man of sorrows, and suffered both mental anguish and physical weariness.

Adam required no clothing before transgression, as a protection either from the weather or from the eyes of others.

Jesus required clothing for both objects.

Adam did not earn his bread by the sweat of his brow in the Garden of Eden.

Jesus laboured at the carpenter's bench during his private life.

Adam was a living soul before the devil entered the world.

Jesus was manifested to destroy, by means of his death, the devil which existed before he was born.

Adam could not say to Eve, "In seeing me you see my father."

Jesus Christ did say, "He that hath seen me hath seen the Father."

Adam's flesh was not diabolos flesh until after the Fall.

Jesus Christ's flesh was diabolos flesh from his birth to his death.

Adam was not tempted in all points like as we are before the serpent spake to the woman.

Jesus was tempted in all points like as we are in the days of his flesh.

Adam was tempted from without when he partook of the forbidden tree; subsequently he was, doubtless, subject to inward temptation.

Jesus Christ, without being a personal transgressor, was tempted from within and without.

Adam, before the Fall, could not be touched with the feeling of our infirmities.

Jesus felt these infirmities all his life, and the remembrance of them enables him now to have compassion on his brethren.

Adam was unfit to be a high priest for sinners before he was tempted to sin.

Jesus Christ, having been tempted, but having resisted all temptation, is enabled to intercede for the fallen sons of Adam.

Adam was not, and could not have been, subjected to a condemnation of sin in the flesh before sin entered therein.

Jesus was subjected to such a condemnation, and was sent expressly that sin might be condemned in the flesh. This was possible, because sin was an element of his mother Mary's flesh, and, therefore, of his.

Adam could not have been offered up as a sacrifice for sin before its consequences existed in him, and he could not be so offered up afterwards, because he was a personal sinner.

Jesus had neither of these disqualifications, and, therefore, he was constituted the Lamb of God to take away the sin of the world.

Adam's uncleanness was covered by the shedding of animal blood.

Jesus Christ's uncleanness was taken away by a righteousness which comprised the shedding of his own blood.

Adam is now in the dust of the earth.

Jesus Christ is now in heaven.

Adam was not God with Eve.

Jesus was "God with us" (the Jews.)

J. J. Andrew.

The Christadelphian, March 1874