What is the difference between the first Adam and the last Adam in 1 Corinthians 15:45?
The first Adam was made a living soul, representing the natural; the last Adam was made a quickening or life-giving spirit, representing the spiritual. Scripture's pattern is first the natural, then the spiritual, so the first Adam is natural and the last Adam is spiritual.
Les explains that the first man Adam was created a living soul, while the last Adam was made a quickening, or life-giving, spirit. He points to the next verse, which says the spiritual was not first but the natural. Les sees this as Scripture's consistent pattern: first the natural, then the spiritual. He illustrates it with first Adam the natural and Christ the second Adam the spiritual; first Cain the natural and then Abel the spiritual; first Esau the natural and then Jacob the spiritual; first King Saul the natural and David the spiritual; and at the end time, first the natural Antichrist, then the spiritual Christ. In our own experience, we begin as natural with no spiritual life, and as believers we become spiritual.
And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
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Who is the 'last Adam' in 1 Corinthians 15:45 and what is He called?
Christ is the last Adam, and unlike the first Adam who was made a living soul, He is a life-giving or quickening spirit.