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And on top of that, you contradicted yourself from the start saying Adam had the Spirit since Adam is in the Old Testament.
Adam is the federal head of the race. He was not born. When he was created by God he was not created in the image of man as we know him today because there was no such man as that but he was created in the image and likeness of God. What is that image? To know that, one can examine the only other man in the OT who the scriptures says was in the image of God and that man is Jesus Christ. See it here;
Heb 1:1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; 3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and
the express image of his person,
2 Corinthians 4:4
In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of
Christ, who
is the image of God, should shine unto them.
There is no doubt that our Lord Jesus Christ is fully a man because we are told this:
14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood,
he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
16 For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but
he took on him the seed of Abraham.
If Jesus Christ is fully man as we are told above, what made him different than all other men? It is because he was also the son of God and was only the second man who was ever called the son of God before the cross. Who was the first man who was called the son of God? The answer is Adam. Here are passages where both men are called the son of God;
Lk 3:38 Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of
Adam, which
was the son of God.
2 Cor 1:19 For the
Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea.
These two men only were sons of God in the OT, The OT which includes the 4 gospel accounts. It was said of these two men only in the first 4000 years of human history that they were in the image of God. They were sons of God in the image of God. The one, Adam, opened up human history in the OT and dominated it the entire 4000 years of the era. The other, Jesus Christ, brought it to an end and began a new era over which he dominated. Each of these men suffered both spiritual and physical death because of sin. Sin entered into the world through the first man, Adam, and the last Adam took it away. The human family was plunged into death and separation from God by the sin of the first Adam and was reconciled and given life by the obedience and righteousness of the last Adam. See these statements from the scriptures that addresses this;
First, Adam
Rom 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
Second, Jesus
Heb 9:26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
Spiritual death that these men suffered separated them from God. Physical death separated them from men. Spiritual death took away the image of God and physical death took away the image of man. See these scriptures;
Gen 3:23 Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. 24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
Adam never appeared again in the presence of God as long as he lived, which was 930 years.
Matt 27:45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour. 46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? (spiritual death)
John 19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the
ghost. ( his soul - physical death)
The image of God was lost by the sin of the first Adam and precipitated his death, first spiritual and then later, physical death. In both cases a separation took place. In the first, the Spirit of God indwelling his body separated from him leaving him as a mortal body and a soul, and in the second his soul separated from his body with the physical and earthly part of him returning to the elements and his soul returning to God. The life that was in Adam at this time was in his blood, not in the indwelling Spirit.
Leviticus 17:11
For
the life of the flesh is in the blood:
Now, after he sinned, Adam has life but not eternal life and his image consists of body and soul. To see this more clearly from the scriptures one must look at his creation and how he became a three part man under the hand of God. Consider his creation account here;
Gen 2:7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground (1. Body), and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life (the Spirit of God); and man became a living soul. (3. spirit of man, his soul).
This is the beginning of the OT era where the Spiritless Adam and his family dominates because he sinned and died spiritually making him a two part man, body and soul. This is now the image of Adam and this is what Adam is like.
Now, notice the end of this OT era and in the very beginning of the NT era and what happens between God and man after Jesus Christ, called the last Adam and the :second man" dominates the scene.
John 20:19 Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you. 20 And when he had so said, he shewed unto them his hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the Lord. 21 Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. 22 And when he had said this,
he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:
The breath of God is the Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ gave eternal life to these foundational teachers of Christianity first before anyone else in the second testament by breathing him, the Spirit, into their bodies just as the Spirit was breathed into the body of Adam in Ge 2. We learn later that these men, and all men who are renewed by the Spirit are sealed unto the day of redemption of their bodies and cannot be condemned. Adam was not sealed.
Eph 4:30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby
ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
2 Corinthians 1:22
2 Cor 1:22 Who hath also
sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
All of Adam's family without exception were born physically into his family and were in his fallen image and are like him, bi-partite persons.
All those who are born again of the Spirit are in the family of God, and are like Christ, who is like God, a trinity.
I want you to consider this important verse and please check context.
2 Cor 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ,
who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
Now watch this and compare this following verse which is in the same context with 2 Cor 4:4 because the chapter begins with the word "therefore."
2 Cor 3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord,
are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
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