According to 1 Corinthians 15:21, how did death and resurrection come?
According to 1 Corinthians 15:21, death entered through Adam, a man, who disobeyed God by eating the forbidden fruit, dying spiritually immediately and physically 900 years later. The resurrection of the dead also came by man, as the verse states.
Les explains that 1 Corinthians 15:21 is set in the context of Adam's transgression. Adam rejected God's discipline, disobeyed Him, and ate the fruit. As a result, Adam died spiritually immediately, though his physical death came 900 years later. So by Adam came death. The verse then declares that by man came also the resurrection of the dead. Les notes this throws a curve because we can understand how Adam plunged the human race into sin and death through eating the forbidden tree, but the resurrection by man is a contrasting truth. The point is that death originated through one man's disobedience, while resurrection also comes through a man, as the verse states.
For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
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What does 'resurrection' mean in 1 Corinthians 15?
Resurrection is not merely being raised back to life as Lazarus was, who died again; it means being brought into the eternal state.