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Adam became a living being. This refers to Gen 2:7 where we learn that Adam was created from the dust of the ground and became a “living being” when God breathed life into him. We are both physical and spiritual beings. Adam had life, we all have life. However, the “last Adam” is a “life-giving spirit”. John 5:21,26 speaks of Jesus giving life.
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Paul then points out that the natural came first, then the spiritual. Some seemed to have a problem with the fact that the general resurrection (as opposed to Christ’s resurrection) was not already happening. Paul is saying that this is the consistent God-given order.
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It is also the God-given order that the “second man is of heaven”. We can look at this in two ways. John’s gospel emphasises that Jesus came from heaven, we are of the earth. We can also look at it as what our resurrected self will be like. As mentioned before, it is a resurrection not a mere resuscitation. We will be transformed when we are raised.
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