Continued from Redemption: The Gracious Rescue
In contrast to Adam, the first man, Jesus came as the second Adam, the true image-bearer of God. Paul, looking forward to the final resurrection, says:
Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual. The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven. —1 Corinthians 15:45–49
Similarly, 2 Corinthians 4:4 calls Christ, “the image of God” and Colossians 1:15 says that he is “the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.” Along with Hebrews 1:3, which describes the Son as the “radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature,” these passages refer to the divinity of our Lord
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