48 - Why are we doomed because of Adam?
- rcbarbas
- Jan 26, 2024
- 22 min read
Gloom, despair and agony on me
We don’t have to look far to find out from where sin originated. If you Google “where did sin begin?” you will find many answers, and like everything on the Internet some are correct and some are make believe. The first thing we need to do in this exercise is to discuss what we believe as a foundation of reference. If I don’t believe in the bible, then I’m not very likely to accept the bible as a basic resource to answer this question. What if I think everything pivots on the nature vs. nurture argument? I might not consider the bible to be a credible resource for this conversation. What if I don’t even agree that is such a thing as sin, and that we are all just life forms existing for our moment, then we expire? In such a case, there probably can be no such thing as sin; there would be no ultimate being who declares what constitutes sin.
But I believe the bible is the inerrant word of God, given to provide us with the rules by which we should live, and therefore it is the only acceptable foundation of everything, for me; and it includes discussions about sin.
Because we don’t like to be blamed for bad stuff, we can easily be convinced that somebody else sinned first, and the bible says exactly that –somebody else sinned first. So let’s begin there.
1 John 3:8 “Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.”
Man did not exist in the beginning; we didn't appear until the sixth period of creating things, so we can easily believe that Satan sinned first. Somebody else did it first.
Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28 both tell the story about the first sinner, Lucifer/Satan. Even though Isaiah addresses “the king of Babylon” and Ezekiel addresses “the king of Tyre”, when you read through the text you should find that the references are to Satan. There are phrases that can be understood to refer to a man (specifically Ezekiel 28:2 “Yet you are a man, and not a god.”) and phrases that are aimed at Satan; there are myriad discussions, arguments about who these chapters are discussing, but it seems obvious to me that the overall topic is Satan and his fall.
This is not a doctoral thesis on Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28 (of which I’m sure there are several) but it should be apparent to the reader that the topic is someone a bit different than human – an angel.
Ezekiel 28:14-16 “You were the anointed cherub who covers; I established you; You were on the holy mountain of God; You walked back and forth in the midst of fiery stones. You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, Till iniquity was found in you. Therefore I cast you as a profane thing out of the mountain of God; And I destroyed you, O covering cherub, From the midst of the fiery stones.”
Anointed cherub – angel
On the holy mountain of God – not a human
Walked on fiery stones (stars? creation of the universe?) – not a human.
“Perfect in ways till iniquity was found in you” could be Adam, but this says king of Tyre - not Adam – any king of Tyre came after Adam and could not have been perfect in ways at any point; any person would have been a sinner from birth, so the reference must be to Satan.
Cast out of mountain of God as profane, destroyed cherub – cherubs are angels, not humans.
These are the smallest points I can make and keep going. There are many more points and dissertations for this chapter and still more for Isaiah 14, but I need to move on because the topic is who sinned first, not a dissertation regarding king of Tyre/king of Babylon vs Satan.
Like I first said, the bible is fairly clear on who sinned first. Angels existed before man; in Job 38:4-7 God asked Job where he was when God laid the foundations of earth and the angels (sons of God) sang together and shouted for joy, so we can see that angels existed before man; man didn’t appear until after the earth was established and angels were present at the laying of earth’s foundation. As Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28 are addressing Satan (a fallen angel) and God said (in Ezekiel 28:15) “You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, Till iniquity was found in you.” In Isaiah 14:12 He said “How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth...” we can see that he sinned first. He sinned before being cast down to earth. He had already sinned when he approached Eve in the garden of Eden in Genesis chapter 3.
Satan was already condemned to Hell when he came on the scene with Eve. He had already been in Eden before Adam and Eve existed (Ezekiel 28:13 “You were in Eden, the garden of God...”).
Satan sinned in heaven, was cast out of Heaven to the earth, found Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden and then the ruckus for mankind began.
Romans 5:12 “Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men..”
1 Timothy 2:13, 14 “13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve. 14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression.”
Eve was deceived, Adam was not; Adam chose to do wrong; Eve was tricked into it. She fell into transgression by not being completely aware; Adam wasn’t tricked into anything. Romans 5 discusses how sin came into the world through one man, Adam, and the grace of God overflowed to many because of the other one man, Jesus. Romans 5:18, 19 “Therefore, as through one man’s offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man’s righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life. For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous.”. It’s pretty clear that the bible places the blame of sin amongst mankind onto Adam and the bible also makes it clear, in Romans 5:14 (“Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come.”), that Adam is a “type/pattern” and Jesus is a “type/pattern”. By type, it is meant that they both had an impact on all of mankind, they were both were the first of their kind in existence. The following link contains a fairly good list of how Jesus and Adam were similar types insomuch as comparing and contrasting, but were also quite the opposites of each other. Kyle Barton did a great job putting these together from Mark Driscoll's work in The Glorious Church. (This table is not bible scripture, so you won’t find this in 2 Hezekiah 48:14, but these truths are definitely in the bible. There won’t be enough space in this document to address and validate each point)
· The first Adam turned from the Father in the garden of Eden; the last Adam turned to the Father in the garden of Gethsemane.
· The first Adam was naked & unashamed in the garden; the last Adam was naked & bore our shame on the cross.
· The first Adam’s sin brought us thorns; the last Adam wore a crown of thorns.
· The first Adam substituted himself for God; the last Adam was God substituting Himself for us.
· The first Adam sinned at a tree; the last Adam bore our sins on a tree.
· The first Adam died as a sinner; the last Adam died for sinners.
· The first Adam lost the tree of life; the last Adam is the tree of life.
· The first Adam was the head of the old creation; the last Adam is the head of the new creation.
· The first Adam was created in God’s image; the last Adam is God’s image.
· The first Adam was to reign over all the earth; the last Adam will reign over all the earth forever and ever.
· The first Adam was the first husband; the last Adam will be the ultimate, eternal husband (to His bride).
· The first Adam was alone & needed a counterpart; the last Adam is alone & needs a counterpart (His bride).
· The first Adam was seeking a wife; the last Adam is seeking a wife.
· The first Adam was put to sleep to produce Eve; the last Adam was put to death to produce the church (His bride).
· The first Adam came out from the ground; the last Adam fell into the ground.
· The first Adam became a living soul; the last Adam became a is the life-giving Spirit.
· The first Adam died & returned to the ground; the last Adam died & returned to heaven.
· The first Adam’s side was opened; the last Adam’s side was pierced.
· Eve was taken out of the first Adam; the church was taken out of the last Adam.
· Eve was built with the first Adam’s rib; the church is being built with the last Adam’s life.
· Eve was brought to the first Adam without sin; the church will be presented to the last Adam without sin.
· Eve was the same as the first Adam in life, nature, & expression; the church is the same as the last Adam in life, nature, & expression.
· The first Adam & Eve became one flesh; the last Adam & the church have become one spirit.
I made a couple of edits, in red, to make some points a bit clearer. The church is the bride of Christ, much as Eve was the bride of Adam. Jesus didn’t become a life-giving Spirit; God has ALWAYS BEEN THE life giving spirit.
I would go one step further and add - Adam is the federal head of humankind; Jesus is the federal head of saved souls. I’ll borrow an explanation of federal headship from gotquestions.org - “In theology, federal headship is one theory used to explain imputation—how Adam’s sin was imputed to all his descendants and how Christ’s righteousness was imputed to those who believe the gospel. According to the federal headship theory, or federalism, Adam was the federal (or representative) head of the human race... The idea of federal headship is not explicit in the Bible; that is, the Bible nowhere calls Adam our representative. Federal headship is simply a way some scholars have chosen to speak about Adam’s, and then Christ’s, involvement in the destiny of humanity.” https://www.gotquestions.org/federal-headship.html
In this list of “types” it should be evident that Adam was the first human to have sinned; it is also evident that Jesus did the opposite of Adam (didn’t sin) to save us from Adam’s failure. I hate to put everything on Adam, like he was some kind of evil bonehead that caused us all to suffer, when the truth is that each of us would probably have done that same thing. Maybe we would have committed a different sin, but at the time the only direction Adam had was about leaving the tree alone. God hadn’t told Adam “Don’t be greedy”, “Don’t commit adultery”, “Don’t murder”, “Don’t steal”; all Adam had was “Don’t eat from that tree”, but he did.
Impute: to lay the responsibility or blame for (something) often falsely or unjustly https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/impute synonyms: ascribe, attribute, assign, credit...
In God’s case, there is no “falsely” or “unjustly”; that only applies to humans. As creator of all that exists, He is the absolute rule maker; it doesn’t matter if we don’t like His justice, He is justice.
Job 34:12 “It is unthinkable that God would do wrong, that the Almighty would pervert justice.”
Job 37:23 “The Almighty – we cannot find Him; He is great in power, justice and abundant righteousness He will not violate.”
Psalm 33 “The Lord loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of his unfailing love.”
Psalm 51:2 “Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight; so you are right in your verdict and justified when you judge,”
Psalm 89:14 “Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne,”
Isaiah 5:16 “But the Lord of hosts is exalted in justice, and the Holy God shows Himself holy in righteousness.”
Isaiah 30:18 “Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you, and therefore He exalts Himself to show mercy to you. For the Lord is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.”
Ezekiel 18:29-32 “Yet the Israelites say, “The way of the Lord is not just.” Are my ways unjust, people of Israel? Is it not your ways that are unjust? Therefore, you Israelites, I will judge each of you according to your ways, declares the sovereign Lord. Repent! Turn away from all your offenses; then sin will not be your downfall. Rid yourselves of all the offenses you have committed, and get a new heart and a new spirit. Why will you die, people of Israel? For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the sovereign Lord. Repent and live!”
To elaborate on this just a touch, God said HE judges mankind. We cannot judge God. We manage to say we judge other people, but that’s only subjective, opinion, that doesn’t carry any weight or conviction. If we are to judge God, what does that matter? Absolutely nothing; it doesn’t impact our creator if we judge Him and say He is bad or wrong; He isn’t. If He judges us, what does that matter? He is the one who places us in Heaven for accepting His offer of salvation, or delivers the consequence of Hell if we don’t believe. In Matthew 10:28, Jesus said “Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell”; I believe we can all see who is the actual minister of justice.
There is no specific verse in the bible that says God “imputed” Adam’s sin to all mankind – keeping in mind this search is exactly for the word “impute”. In Leviticus 17:4 there is a specific mention of guilt of bloodshed (of an ox or lamb) being imputed on the man who killed the animal. King David wrote in Psalm 32:2 “Blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute iniquity”. In Romans 4:6, 8 Paul wrote “just as David also describes the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from works... Blessed is the man to whom the Lord shall not impute sin.” It should be clear that God imputes, or doesn’t impute sin and righteousness onto men.
There are scriptures that say all men (mankind) are under the penalty of sin.
Romans 3:23 “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”
Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
For Romans 3:23, according to Peter Wuest, in Wuest’s Word Studies Romans, pg. 58 & 59, “have sinned” is constative aorist, presenting a panoramic view of the human race as doing nothing except committing sin, and the more proper translation would have been “for all sinned”.
“The constative aorist tense describes an action in its entirety... John 2:20 — “This temple was built in forty-six years.” The verb takes a 46-year process and wraps it up in a single package. The emphasis is on the fact that it happened, not on how long it took.” https://ezraproject.com/aorist-tense-a-closer-look/#:~:text=1.,meaning%20of%20the%20aorist%20tense.
I know this sounds nitpicky, but the point is that Romans 3:23 says that all people, in the entirety of the human race, sinned when Adam sinned. (Everyone except Jesus – and recall that Jesus was not born from human procreation; He didn’t have a sin nature.) The issue is that it happened, not when or who. I will hopefully explain this point, to the reader’s satisfaction and understanding in the next section.
“For all have sinned” lends to the inference that everyone has committed sin, even infants. We can be fairly certain that infants haven’t sinned yet because they don’t have the cognitive ability to do wrong; they just have an instinct to be, to cry when hungry or covered in poo, to sleep, to pee and to poop, etc. In 2 Samuel 12:23 we read that, upon the death of his infant son, King David said “But now he is dead; why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.” Somehow, King David knew that his baby had gone to Heaven and that David would go to be with him in Heaven. The baby was included in “for ALL sinned”, but would not be properly included in “for all HAVE sinned”.
Now, here’s a point that we don’t hear very often, if ever; usually we hear that sin (sin nature) was imputed on us and we hardly ever hear a discussion about why. So, let’s go to Genesis chapter one and review a specific aspect of creation.
11 Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so.
21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds,
and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
24 And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds:
the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.”
26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, ”
27 So God created mankind in His own image,
Gen 5:3 When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image...
Notice that everything with life was made after its own kind. Coconut trees didn’t yield frogs, fungi didn’t make sharks, dogs didn’t make eagles or sparrows. Even man was made in the likeness of God. But when Adam and Eve sinned, they became unlike God. When they were thrown out of the garden of Eden for sinning, they had not yet reproduced. Their reproduction began after they had sinned and after they had been thrown out of the garden. Their offspring were conceived by sinful parents, so Adam and Eve reproduced after their own kind – sinners.
Babies haven’t actually sinned, but they are born with a nature to sin (doing what we want instead of what we’re supposed to be doing). We all grow up and sin. Remember, sin is missing the mark, not necessarily evil actions like burning puppies and selling drugs to first graders.
As previously mentioned, in the gotquestions.org link, there is no explicit mention of Adam being the federal head of humankind; there is no 2 Hezekiah 48:14 text that reads “And Adam was created to be the federal head of mankind” but, because he is the first man to exist on earth, and Eve was the first woman to exist, they became the first parents, and that makes Adam the representative of all of mankind (Recall that Eve was made from Adam’s rib, so even she was a descendant of Adam), with the exception of Jesus; Jesus was not a biological descendant of Adam, except on His mom’s side. Jesus’ Father is God.
As federal head, we all follow Adam and his representative activities.
Now when we combine this thought with the truth of creation we can probably get a new perspective on sin being passed from Adam down through all of mankind.
In Genesis chapter one, when we read of different life forms being created and reproducing we notice that ten times God used the term “kind”. This was created according to its kind, that was created according to its kind, according to its kind, according to its kind, according to its kind... Now, let’s move on to Genesis 5:3,
And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.” NKJV
“When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth.” NIV
“And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth” KJV
This doesn’t look very interesting until we realize that we are all made in Adam’s image/likeness. Adam was made in God’s own image in Genesis 1:27, but Adam’s descendants were all made in Adam’s likeness. Kind begats kind. Fig trees don’t have puppies as offspring. Dogs don’t have fish. Adam was flawed and could not father perfect offspring; flawed begats flawed.
As we are flawed, like Adam and because of Adam, we are assigned the same disobedient, sinful nature that Adam took upon himself.
It seems unfair that we have the nature of Adam, but we are his descendants and therefore like him. Adam was the bad guy, wasn’t he? How are we tied with him into sin?
In Exodus 20:4-6 we have the first part of the Ten Commandments. God said “You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. You shall not worship them nor serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, inflicting the punishment of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing favor to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.” God, in His justice, visits the sin of ancestors to their descendants. Not always, to everyone forever, but in specific instances, and in the instance of Adam, we all got his nature because we are his kind. It might not seem fair, but it is God’s way, and according to Isaiah 55:9 His ways and thoughts are as high above ours as Heaven is above earth.
Because Adam sinned first, and we all are made after his kind, we are sinners and when we sin we deserve the death mentioned in Romans 6:23 (“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”). Because the wages/payment of sin is death, and following the example of the Passover Lamb in Egypt, we either die, or something/someone else has to pay that death debt.
Recall that in Exodus 12 the plague God put on Egypt was the Passover. He said that people were to take in a male lamb, without blemish, in its first year of life, on the 10th day of the month and take care of it as a pet for four days, then sacrifice it and spread its blood across their door frames with hyssop. Taking the lamb into the house for four days makes the sacrifice personal. (A family would tend to, pet and feed a small lamb, and start to love it.)
Then, on the fourteenth day of the month (the fourth day of having the lamb as part of the family) the day of sacrifice, the family was supposed to execute and roast the lamb - including head, legs and entrails – then eat the meat with bitter spices and the bread of the meal should have no yeast - like a flat pita. The directions also included verse 22, that no one should go out of the door of the house until morning. That night, when the destroyer/angel of death went through Egypt He killed the first born in any house that did not have the blood of the lamb on their door frame. If the blood was there, the first born lived. Moses wrote in verse 30, “So Pharaoh rose in the night, he, all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead.”
When we look at the picture as a whole we see more to it than killing a lamb and having a poorly flavored meal.
It is a common reference to Jesus when we speak of the Passover Lamb. His blood is what gives us everlasting life just as the blood of the lamb in Exodus 12 kept the first-born child in houses that observed these directions alive. Jesus was without blemish when He died on the cross, like the Passover lamb in Exodus 12 had to be without blemish. There was not an Egyptian family that did not experience the death of their first born, and the Israelites were safe. When eating their meal, the Israelites were told to be ready to travel while they ate – belt on waist, sandals on feet, staff in hand.
There will not be a person who ignores the Passover Lamb (Jesus) who won’t die eternally. Jesus sent out the seventy (in Luke 10) ready to travel; they didn’t take anything with them that could have impeded their travel. All Egyptian families (with kids) who didn’t observe the Passover rules experienced a death because . The Israelites had to eat their meal prepared to get up and leave. It should be apparent that there are themes and repeat events in the bible wherein we can see a pattern of what God does.
The Passover Lamb (the sheep) was the meal consumed on the night of the sacrifice in Egypt. The night of the Last Supper, before Passover at the execution of Jesus, Jesus told the disciples Luke 22:19, 20 ““This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.” This meal they were eating was reminiscent, and representative, of eating the lamb the night of the Passover in Egypt. Jesus is the Passover Lamb. Eating the meal was indicative of participating in eating the original lamb and belief that the blood of the lamb is the saving event in our lives. 1 Corinthians 5:7 “For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.”
The lamb of the Passover had to be without blemish in order for the sacrifice to count; the lamb had to be male; his blood had to be spread over the house entrance; his body had to be consumed.
Jesus was without blemish: Heb 4:15 “For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin.”
His blood was spread: Matthew 26:28 “This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.” (There is much augmenting about this point – did Jesus pour His blood in heaven after the resurrection, did the blood, when He was pierced with a spear, count as His blood pouring, did He need to pour His blood like the lamb or the sacrifices by the high priest in the Holy of Holies..., but Jesus Himself said His blood was “poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins”, so I have to go with – Yes, His blood was poured)
His body had to be consumed: Luke 22:19““This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.”
This conversation could go on for days on end, but I need to get to the point of this section. Jesus didn’t sin; what does that mean for us? Simply put, God set the temporary criteria for forgiveness with the Passover lamb in Exodus 12; the death of a single lamb could not suffice for forgiveness always; it could only serve for sins up to a point. A lamb is not an eternal being. Jesus HAD to meet, and exceed, those criteria in order to relinquish us of having to pay our own sin debt. He met those criteria by being male, perfect, and sinless – at the very least. He exceeded those criteria by being eternal, and infinite in nature. His death, and blood, covered all sin for all time should we believe and accept His sacrificial payment. A lamb could not account for all sin for all time; only the creator, infinite God, could do that. No angel in heaven, even though they haven’t sinned, is fit to pay that debt.
Jesus did not physically procreate. He did not have kids in His own image. He made Adam in His image; Adam failed and became another kind. God had no reason to repeat that exercise. We are His children by adoption; that means we are His kids, selected by choice, and bought with a price. We are and are not in God’s image; Adam was created in God’s image, but we are reproduced in Adam’s image. We do have some of God’s attributes along the idea that Adam was created in His image – we have a soul, a spirit and a physical body. We are not God’s image because we are sinful. Christians are God’s children being sanctified (impart, or impute sacredness, make holy, set apart) as we live, maturing in Christ to become Christlike. (and we all take a lifetime to improve).
The fact that Jesus didn’t procreate gives us the realization that everyone takes after Adam; no one has a step up on anyone else for eternity. No one gets to say “I’m one of Jesus’ descendants; we don’t sin and you guys do”.
There are people who suggest that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and had kids. The descendants of those made-up offspring supposedly live in France and the U.K. Some of this nonsense comes from the “Gospel of Philip” and the “Gospel of Jesus’ Wife”.
Gospel of Philip is not considered of any repute. It doesn’t match the other gospels and was never seriously considered as valid in any form. If I wrote “The gospel according to Ron”, who would take me seriously. After 2,000 years, what information would I have except what I read that somebody else wrote a long time ago. And how bizarre would I be considered if my text didn’t follow the same ideas as the original writers. That’s how we can decidedly toss out Mormonism; Joseph Smith said he had new revelations from God, via the angel Moroni. Most of it is nonsense to the point that in 1979 the Smithsonian Institute made a specific page stating that there is no known physical evidence of the Mormon stories. http://www.bmaf.org/articles/reply_smithsonian_institution__sorensen
In 2012, a 1.6” x 3.1” papyrus fragment that includes the words “Jesus said to them, 'my wife...'” was presented by Professor Karen L. King of Harvard Divinity School. Apparently Gospel of Jesus’ Wife was built off this sentence fragment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Jesus%27_Wife There has never been any certification that it has any value at all. Building a gospel from a piece of paper that has a six-word sentence fragment on it must be some kind of mind twisting. The rest of the text on the fragment is Coptic text, an alphabet that was standardized a couple of hundred years after Jesus’ resurrection. It was mostly developed in Egypt based off the Greek alphabet. You can explain language etymology to me and I’ll just have a dopey blank expression on my face, but the point of this paragraph is that the text on a paper fragment included a sentence fragment from which someone built an entire book.
Maybe there is an actual fragment that says “Jesus said to them, 'my wife...'”, but does it say “wife”, or “bride” when properly translated? The bride of Christ is the church; the wife of Christ does not exist. A simple word translation/mistranslation can mean a tremendous amount in a proof or statement. If Jesus had a wife, He probably would have come to see her first after His resurrection. In John 20:11-16 the text reads “But Mary stood outside by the tomb weeping, and as she wept she stooped down and looked into the tomb. And she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. Then they said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “Because they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid Him.” Now when she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, and did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?” She, supposing Him to be the gardener, said to Him, “Sir, if You have carried Him away, tell me where You have laid Him, and I will take Him away.” Jesus said to her, “Mary!” She turned and said to Him, “Rabboni!” (which is to say, Teacher).”
Mary was looking for the teacher, Jesus, not a husband. She said “they have taken away my Lord”. Then Jesus showed up and asked why she was weeping; He brought her attention to who He actually was and she said “Teacher!”. Has anyone reading this EVER heard of a woman calling her husband “my Lord” or “Teacher!”, much less both titles in the same conversation. Jesus and Mary Magdalene were not married. If they were married, she probably would have said “Hey J, where have you been for the past three days? I’ve been out looking for you, I’ve had everyone out looking for you. You never let me know what you’re doing and I’ll be danged if I’m going to put up with this much longer. I know you were crucified, but you said you’d be right back. Did you stop by the store and get some pita and fish? Peter and John are supposed to be stopping by for dinner and they were disappointed when you actually died. Blah blah blah...”. No, they were not married.
In Luke 24:13-31, Jesus then showed up later that same day on the road to Emmaus and spoke with two men; they had no idea who He was until He opened their eyes right before leaving them. Later that day, Jesus appeared to the disciples – His bride.
The people to whom Jesus appeared right after His resurrection, Mary Magdalene, the two on the road to Emmaus and the disciples, were His bride. He showed Himself to His bride first, but not His “wife”.
Jesus has a bride – the church - often mentioned and described in the bible. Jesus had no wife. Jesus didn’t procreate and make kids; He has chosen His children, and identified them as believers. John chapter 10 describes that we belong to Jesus and we know His voice; kids know their parents’ voices and calls/whistles. What that means to us is that we are the chosen, adopted, children of the King and Creator of the universe. Everyone is a child of Adam; everyone has the opportunity to become a child of God.
We are sinners because Adam sinned and we are the descendants of the procreation of his kind.
We can be saved from sin because Jesus is perfect and paid that debt; He did not procreate to make different children for Himself. He chose us, from Adam’s offspring, to be His children, and bride, for salvation so that we don’t have to live in doom.
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