It may sound like an easy question to answer, but it is surprisingly
not. Most would at least say that the
first is Jesus Christ, especially if they are Christian, but would struggle with
the second. While they don’t want to
sound unbiblical or secular they may say: “Moses” or “David” but they are still
wrong. Not just wrong, but it might
actually reveal something else.
A Biblical Worldview is more important than we could realize,
but is impossible to have and live out without the Holy Spirit to teach,
convince, and convict us. This isn’t
something to intellectually grasp and poke fun at everyone else because of
their inability to see. Jesus Christ
Himself was the only one to ever live a Biblical Worldview through and
through.
Who would Jesus say that the other most important person in
the history of Mankind was? Surely when
He argued with the Pharisee’s He mentioned David, Abraham, and Moses by name,
but where they not used to scold their elevation of these 3 people? He even mentions Adam as a passing statement
on a man shall leave his father and his mother…
In the Gospels we have genealogies that include Adam and Eve
Paul reveals in Romans some amazing facts. Paul was a Pharisee, and knew his Bible
through and through. The Holy Spirit was
able to use this man to reveal in a logical manner from his lawyer like mind
and prove the case for Jesus Christ and Adam as the two most important people in
the History of Mankind
Romans 5:12 says “ Therefore, just as sin
entered the world through one man(Adam). And death through sin, and in this way
death came to all people, because all sinned”
Romans 5:14 says “Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had
not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s Transgression, who is the figure of
him that was to come”
1 Corinthians 15:22 says “For as in Adam all die, so
also in Christ all will be made alive.”
1 Corinthians 15:45 says “And so it is written, the first man, Adam
was made a living soul: the last Adam(Jesus) was made a quickening spirit”
Adam brought sin into this world; Jesus brought salvation to
the world. If we die in Adam, we die in
our sins eternally condemned to Hell.
However if we die in the second Adam, Jesus Christ, we will live forever
to the praise of His glory. The fact
that we have the nature of Adam shows us our need for a savior!
Questions that rattle me to the core:
1)Has our Theology rejected a literal Adam, therefore
rejecting the seriousness of sin?
2)If my Theology rejects the seriousness of sin, how does that
reflect on my Savior? On the Lost?
