We kind of wandered off of addressing your claim that Jesus ceased to be a man (post 288) when he died on the cross. Jesus rose from the dead in a physical body which to all appearances was that of a man. Do you disagree with that?
It's not that I disagree...
1Co 15:42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
1Co 15:43 It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:
1Co_15:44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
Jesus natural human body became corrupted when it died...It was raised as a glorifed, spiritual body...Apparently it took on the appearance of a physical body yet it could disappear and appear, it could travel thru walls, it had far too many holes in it...
So while, in a sense, Jesus appeared in a 'physical' body of a sort, it wasn't the natural body we or he was born with...
Does it not make sense that His defeat of death removed the curse that first Adam’s disobedience brought forth?
I would say no...
First Adam did not become something other than a man. We are not given a very much description about what First Adam was like; but, dare we to say that Second Adam discarded His Manhood? Would that not mean that God has despised the work of His own hands?
You're right...We do not know much about the 1st Adam...We do know he had no sin, no pain, no death and perfect weather, before the fall...God was not too happy with the work of his own hands after the fall of Adam and Eve...
Gen_6:6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
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“”First Adam did not become something other than a man. We are not given a very much description about what First Adam was like; but, dare we to say that Second Adam discarded His Manhood? Would that not mean that God has despised the work of His own hands?
You’re right...We do not know much about the 1st Adam...We do know he had no sin, no pain, no death and perfect weather, before the fall...God was not too happy with the work of his own hands after the fall of Adam and Eve...
Gen_6:6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. “”
Jesus is exactly like Adam. That is why He can be called the second Adam and God can compare Him with Adam as He does in Romans 5.
God could not punish Adam, and or us, for not living a sinless life if He could not prove His creation, man, could live a sinless life. Jesus is that proof.
May God our Father lead us to His truth, BVB