[kosta50]

The Protestant view of Paul is easily within these parameters since it is by no means required that ginomai can ONLY mean "come into existence".

So, what does in the "Protestant view" ginomai mean in 1 Cor 15:45?

If I remember correctly, you said it meant Christ's mission or work. Your own definition doesn't support that, FK. Especially since Paul uses it only once for both Adam and Christ.

[Forest Keeper]

So, what does in the "Protestant view" ginomai mean in 1 Cor 15:45? If I remember correctly, you said it meant Christ's mission or work. Your own definition doesn't support that, FK. Especially since Paul uses it only once for both Adam and Christ.

I don't actually remember saying that, but if I did I have no idea what I meant by it now. :) What I think it means now is that Adam BECAME a living soul from the dust in time. Likewise, Christ BECAME a life-giving spirit to humans in time, that is, once there WERE humans to receive it. That would seem to match verse 46: "The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual."