What is the law of Scripture Les emphasizes from 1 Corinthians 15:46?
From 1 Corinthians 15:46, the emphasized law is that the natural comes first and the spiritual comes afterward. Adam was made a living soul, while the last Adam became a quickening spirit. The first man is earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven. This order—first natural, then spiritual—governs the passage.
Les explains that 1 Corinthians 15:46 states, "Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; afterward that which is spiritual." He calls this a law of Scripture he has emphasized often: first the natural, then the spiritual. In the surrounding verses, Paul agrees with Luke's Gospel that Jesus was the son of man, yet He never stopped being God. The first man, Adam, was of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven. Les then moves toward John's fourth Gospel for His deity and back to Colossians.
Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.