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To: RegulatorCountry
“As Scripture tells us, Jesus was truly the Second Adam. The first Adam was a special creation of God (not related to any human being), and so was the second Adam (Romans 5:12-19). Jesus was just as fully human as the first Adam. And just like the first Adam, he had no sin nature, no inherited sin, no sinful flesh, which has always been passed from one generation to the next since Adam and Eve’s sin. He was absolutely pure and without sin—from the day he was born, till the day he died. He had to be—he was the Lamb of God, without blemish or spot, sacrificed for sins (John 1:29).”

http://www.christiananswers.net/dictionary/mary-motherofjesus.html

If this were a Catholic interpretation, it would be scorned "NON SCRIPTURAL" man made interpretation by anti-Catholics. I do wonder how you pick and choose these "interpretations", as actual scripture.

Not that I am against these explanations because there is nothing in the Bible that says only biblical word has authority. The bible wasn't even compiled to include The New Testament until about 150AD, there was continued discussion about a few books until about 400AD. It was not officially canonized until the Council of Trent in the 1500’s, when Luther and the first Protestants came to be.

Luther promised to return to the church after reformation. The church did reform, but Luther's followers didn't keep his word.

Regardless, while Adam was made in God's image. Jesus was truly God's only begotten Son. Not the second Adam. Mary was human, and obedient to God, unlike Eve. Therefore, she is the "New Eve". Jesus is God the Son, and is our Savior. Not the New Adam.

1,384 posted on 02/20/2010 12:07:21 PM PST by mgist
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To: mgist
If this were a Catholic interpretation, it would be scorned "NON SCRIPTURAL" man made interpretation by anti-Catholics. I do wonder how you pick and choose these "interpretations", as actual scripture.

It appears you are yet again in error, mgist. Please read the following article, entitled The Second Adam, from America: The National Catholic Weekly:

The paintings on the walls of the Brancacci Chapel in Florence show Masaccio (1401-28) at his artistic and spiritual best—not least in the way he links Adam and Eve with Christ. Driven from the Garden of Eden, our first parents are in despair. Weeping and weighed down with terrible pain and loss, they move along a path of sorrows. But the same path brings them toward the next scene: Christ on the shores of Lake Galilee surrounded by his apostles, who will found the church. In his own brilliant fashion, Masaccio follows a tradition that reaches back to St. Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians (Ch. 15) and his Letter to the Romans (Ch. 5), the contrast between the first Adam, who initiated the whole story of human sin and the new Adam, who has brought the blessings of grace and eternal life.

Calling Christ the second Adam is a solidly traditional practice. In the second century St. Irenaeus developed the differences between the first and last Adam. By referring twice to Adam, an early liturgical text, the Exultet or Easter Proclamation (still sung at the Easter Vigil) implies Christ’s role as the second or new Adam. In the medieval mystery plays, the actor who played Adam usually reappeared to play Christ—a vivid way of connecting the first and second Adam. A contrast between the damage done by the first Adam and the gifts of the second Adam entered into the Council of Trent’s 1547 decree on the justification of sinful human beings. Right down to the 21st century, images of Adam and Christ are still wonderfully joined in icons used in the official liturgy of the Eastern Christian tradition and in the decoration of its churches.

The remainder of the article, entitled , in America: The National Catholic Weekly can be found at http://www.americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=3540

1,390 posted on 02/20/2010 1:07:13 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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