glorycloud's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The New Adam My day off from work goes by like all other off days-I have been sitting in my study listening to music with my earphones on reading the book "New Testament Christology" by Frank J. Matera-Joe is working today so is Beth-Caleb Jon is home doing nothing-nothing came in the mail for me today-Carol just got up from a nap she works tonight-so existence goes by-I have wasted but I will go to bed around 9:30 tonight-there is nothing else to report-a normal day in America. "And so it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit" 1 Cor 15:45 Here is a neat quote from "New Testament Christology"----"Although Paul does not explicitly relate a story about Christ in his Corinthian correspondence, he clearly presupposes such a Christ story in his response to the situation he confronted at Corinth. He identifies the crucified Christ as the power and wisdom of God, "secret and hidden, which God decreed before the ages for our glory" (1 Cor 2:7). The world did not understand this wisdom, and its rulers crucified "the Lord of glory" (1 Cor 2:8). This Lord of glory is the eikon of God (2 Cor 4:4), the one on whose face shines the glory of God (2 Cor 4:6). Because of its trespasses, humanity was at enmity with God (2 Cor 5:19), deprived of his glory (see Rom 3:23). To reconcile the world to himself, God put the sinless Christ in the place of sinful humanity (2 Cor 5:21). Christ died as the representative of all, the one for the many (2 Cor 5:14). Thus he is the new Adam, the beginning of a new creation, and all who are in Christ are a new creation ( 2 Cor 5:17). At present, humanity groans as it waits to be fully transformed (2 Cor 5:1-10). But even now, believers are being transformed from glory to glory as they gaze, with unveiled faces, upon the glory of God present in Christ, the image of God. At the general resurrection of the dead, believers will bear the image of the heavenly one, the new Adam. Then the plan of God's wisdom, predetermined for the glory of humanity, will be completed ( 1 Cor 2:7), and God will be all in all (1 Cor 15:28). . ." pp.101,102 7:30 p.m. - 2001-08-18 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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