Death Through Adam, Life Through Christ
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The doctrine of "Death Through Adam, Life Through Christ" is a foundational tenet in Christian theology, emphasizing the contrast between the consequences of Adam's sin and the redemptive work of Jesus Christ. This concept is primarily derived from the Apostle Paul's writings, particularly in the book of Romans.

Death Through Adam

The narrative of death entering the world through Adam is rooted in the Genesis account of the Fall. In Genesis 2:17, God commands Adam not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, warning that disobedience would result in death. Adam's transgression, as described in Genesis 3, brought sin and death into the world, affecting all of humanity. This is articulated in Romans 5:12 : "Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned."

Adam's sin is seen as the original act of disobedience that introduced a hereditary sin nature to all his descendants. This concept is often referred to as "original sin," indicating that all humans are born into a state of sinfulness and separation from God. The consequence of this inherited sin is both physical death and spiritual death, which is eternal separation from God.

Life Through Christ

In contrast to the death brought by Adam, the New Testament presents Jesus Christ as the source of life and redemption. Through His sacrificial death and resurrection, Christ offers salvation and eternal life to all who believe. Romans 5:18-19 states: "So then, just as one trespass brought condemnation for all men, so also one act of righteousness brought justification and life for all men. For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous."

Christ's obedience, culminating in His death on the cross, is seen as the antidote to Adam's disobedience. By His resurrection, Jesus conquered death, offering believers the hope of eternal life. This is further emphasized in 1 Corinthians 15:21-22 : "For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive."

Theological Implications

The doctrine underscores the necessity of Christ's atoning work for salvation. It highlights the gravity of sin and the profound grace of God in providing a means of redemption. Believers are called to live in the newness of life that Christ offers, as stated in Romans 6:4 : "We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of life."

This teaching also affirms the universality of both sin and salvation. While all are affected by Adam's sin, the offer of life through Christ is available to all, transcending ethnic, cultural, and social boundaries. The transformative power of Christ's resurrection is central to the Christian hope, promising not only future resurrection but also a present experience of spiritual renewal and victory over sin.
Subtopics

Apostrophe: To Death and the Grave

Death

Death of the Righteous

Death of the Wicked

Death Penalty

Death to Self

Death: Apostrophe To

Death: As a Judgment: Saul

Death: As a Judgment: Sodomites

Death: As a Judgment: Upon the Antediluvians

Death: Called Sleep

Death: Desired

Death: Desired by Moses

Death: Desired: Elijah

Death: Desired: Job

Death: Desired: Jonah

Death: Desired: Paul

Death: Desired: Simeon

Death: Exemption From: Elijah

Death: Exemption From: Enoch

Death: Exemption From: No Death in Heaven

Death: Exemption From: Promised to Saints at the Second Coming of Christ

Death: Figurative of Regeneration

Death: Miscellaneous Subjects: A Change

Death: Miscellaneous Subjects: Being Cut Down

Death: Miscellaneous Subjects: Being Gathered to Our People

Death: Miscellaneous Subjects: Called Giving up the Ghost

Death: Miscellaneous Subjects: Departing

Death: Miscellaneous Subjects: Fleeing As a Shadow

Death: Miscellaneous Subjects: Going Down Into Silence

Death: Miscellaneous Subjects: Going the Way Whence There is No Return

Death: Miscellaneous Subjects: Going to Thy Fathers

Death: Miscellaneous Subjects: King of Terrors

Death: Miscellaneous Subjects: Putting off This Tabernacle

Death: Miscellaneous Subjects: Requiring the Soul

Death: Miscellaneous Subjects: Returning to Dust

Death: Preparation For

Death: Scenes of Death of David

Death: Scenes of Death of Isaac

Death: Scenes of Death of Jacob

Death: Scenes of Death of Jesus

Death: Scenes of Death of Moses

Death: Scenes of Death of Paul

Death: Scenes of Death of Stephen

Death: Scenes of Death of Zechariah

Death: Second

Death: Spiritual

Death: Symbolized by the Pale Horse

Death: Symbolized: King of Terrors

Death: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To

Eternal Death is Called: A Resurrection to Damnation

Eternal Death is Called: A Resurrection to Shame

Eternal Death is Called: Damnation of Hell

Eternal Death is Called: Destruction

Eternal Death is Called: Everlasting Punishment

Eternal Death is Called: Perishing

Eternal Death is Called: The Second Death

Eternal Death is Called: The Wrath to Come

Eternal Death is Described as a Lake of Fire

Eternal Death is Described as a Mist of Darkness for Ever

Eternal Death is Described as Banishment from God

Eternal Death is Described as Indignation, Wrath

Eternal Death is Described as Outer Darkness

Eternal Death is Described as Society With the Devil

Eternal Death is Described as The Worm That Dies Not

Eternal Death: Christ, the Only Way of Escape From

Eternal Death: God Alone Can Inflict

Eternal Death: Illustrated

Eternal Death: Saints Shall Escape

Eternal Death: Self-Righteousness Leads To

Eternal Death: Shall be Inflicted by Christ

Eternal Death: Strive to Preserve Others From

Eternal Death: The Necessary Consequence of Sin

Eternal Death: The Portion of the Wicked

Eternal Death: The Wages of Sin

Eternal Death: The Way To, Described

Natural Death by Adam

Natural Death is Described as a Sleep

Natural Death is Described as Being Cut Down

Natural Death is Described as Departing

Natural Death is Described as Fleeing As a Shadow

Natural Death is Described as Gathering to Our People

Natural Death is Described as God Requiring the Soul

Natural Death is Described as Going Down Into Silence

Natural Death is Described as Going the Way Whence There is No Return

Natural Death is Described as Putting off This Tabernacle

Natural Death is Described as Returning to Dust

Natural Death is Described as The Earthly House of This Tabernacle Being Dissolved

Natural Death is Described as Yielding up the Spirit

Natural Death: Abolished by Christ

Natural Death: All Shall be Raised From

Natural Death: Christ Delivers from the Fear of

Natural Death: Conquered by Christ

Natural Death: Consequence of Sin

Natural Death: Consideration of, a Motive to Diligence

Natural Death: Enoch and Elijah Were Exempted From

Natural Death: Illustrates the Change Produced in Conversion

Natural Death: Levels all Ranks

Natural Death: Lot of All

Natural Death: None Subject to in Heaven

Natural Death: Ordered by God

Natural Death: Pray to be Prepared For

Natural Death: Prepare For

Natural Death: Puts an End to Earthly Projects

Natural Death: Regard, As at Hand

Natural Death: Shall Finally be Destroyed by Christ

Natural Death: Strips of Earthly Possessions

Natural Death: when Averted for a Season, is a Motive to Increased

Spiritual Death is a Consequence of the Fall

Spiritual Death is the State of all Men by Nature

Spiritual Death: A Call to Arise From

Spiritual Death: Alienation from God Is

Spiritual Death: Carnal-Mindedness Is

Spiritual Death: Deliverance From, is Through Christ

Spiritual Death: Hypocrisy Is

Spiritual Death: Illustrated

Spiritual Death: Living in Pleasure Is

Spiritual Death: Love of the Brethren, a Proof of Being Raised From

Spiritual Death: Saints are Raised From

Spiritual Death: Spiritual Ignorance Is

Spiritual Death: The Fruits of, are Dead Works

Spiritual Death: Unbelief Is

Spiritual Death: Walking in Trespasses and Sins Is

The Death of Christ in the Company of Malefactors

The Death of Christ was Undeserved

The Death of Christ was Voluntary

The Death of Christ: Acceptable, As a Sacrifice to God

The Death of Christ: Accompanied by Supernatural Signs

The Death of Christ: Appointed by God

The Death of Christ: Commemorated in the Ordinance of the Lord's Supper

The Death of Christ: Demanded by the Jews

The Death of Christ: Emblematical of the Death to Sin

The Death of Christ: Foretold

The Death of Christ: Inflicted by the Gentiles

The Death of Christ: Mode of a Stumbling Block to Jews

The Death of Christ: Mode of Accursed

The Death of Christ: Mode of Exhibited his Humility

The Death of Christ: Mode of Foolishness to Gentiles

The Death of Christ: Mode of Foretold by Christ

The Death of Christ: Mode of Ignominious

The Death of Christ: Mode of Prefigured

The Death of Christ: Necessary for the Redemption of Man

The Death of Saints is Blessed

The Death of Saints is Full of Faith

The Death of Saints is Full of Hope

The Death of Saints is Full of Peace

The Death of Saints is Gain

The Death of Saints: A Sleep in Christ

The Death of Saints: Aaron

The Death of Saints: Abraham

The Death of Saints: Disregarded by the Wicked

The Death of Saints: Dorcas

The Death of Saints: Elisha

The Death of Saints: God is With Them In

The Death of Saints: God Preserves Them To

The Death of Saints: Illustrated

The Death of Saints: Isaac

The Death of Saints: Jacob

The Death of Saints: Joshua

The Death of Saints: Leads to a Crown of Life

The Death of Saints: Leads to a Joyful Resurrection

The Death of Saints: Leads to Christ's Presence

The Death of Saints: Leads to Comfort

The Death of Saints: Leads to Rest

The Death of Saints: Met With Resignation

The Death of Saints: Met Without Fear

The Death of Saints: Moses

The Death of Saints: One Thief

The Death of Saints: Precious in God's Sight

The Death of Saints: Removes from Coming Evil

The Death of Saints: Sometimes Desired

The Death of Saints: Survivors Consoled For

The Death of Saints: The Wicked Wish Theirs to Resemble

The Death of Saints: Waited For

The Death of the Wicked is in Their Sins

The Death of the Wicked is Without Hope

The Death of the Wicked: Absalom

The Death of the Wicked: Ahab

The Death of the Wicked: Ananias

The Death of the Wicked: Athaliah

The Death of the Wicked: Belshazzar

The Death of the Wicked: Frequently Marked by Terror

The Death of the Wicked: Frequently Sudden and Unexpected

The Death of the Wicked: God Has No Pleasure In

The Death of the Wicked: Haman

The Death of the Wicked: Herod

The Death of the Wicked: Illustrated

The Death of the Wicked: Jezebel

The Death of the Wicked: Judas

The Death of the Wicked: Korah

The Death of the Wicked: Like the Death of Beasts

The Death of the Wicked: Punishment Follows

The Death of the Wicked: Sometimes Without Fear

The Death of the Wicked: The Remembrance of Them Perishes In

Vicarious: Death: The Ram for Isaac

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Consist (7 Occurrences)

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Neglecting (6 Occurrences)

Neighboring (11 Occurrences)

Notorious (16 Occurrences)

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Ulcer (8 Occurrences)

Unknown (15 Occurrences)

Odious (9 Occurrences)

Oreb (4 Occurrences)

Lash (2 Occurrences)

Low (216 Occurrences)

Lasciviousness (9 Occurrences)

Gross (12 Occurrences)

Wallow (5 Occurrences)

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Immorality (38 Occurrences)

Intends (2 Occurrences)

Faultless (10 Occurrences)

Relapse (1 Occurrence)

Ruler (329 Occurrences)

Reform (28 Occurrences)

Reprobate (8 Occurrences)

Extreme (11 Occurrences)

Eyeservice (2 Occurrences)

Exterminate (8 Occurrences)

Extermination (6 Occurrences)

Degree (19 Occurrences)

Disgrace (73 Occurrences)

Degrade (1 Occurrence)

Den (19 Occurrences)

Misconduct (4 Occurrences)

Manahath (3 Occurrences)

Moral (5 Occurrences)

Morality

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Profligacy (5 Occurrences)

Pursuit (35 Occurrences)

Parent (2 Occurrences)

Poison (17 Occurrences)

Produce (140 Occurrences)

Practising (7 Occurrences)

Brand (4 Occurrences)

Amos (12 Occurrences)

Aim (17 Occurrences)

Abandoned (45 Occurrences)

Augury (5 Occurrences)

Abomination (78 Occurrences)

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Shameful (27 Occurrences)

Sanhedrim (20 Occurrences)

Stop (108 Occurrences)

Stand (542 Occurrences)

Seed (337 Occurrences)

Scandalous (1 Occurrence)

Specific (2 Occurrences)

Specimen (1 Occurrence)

Support (135 Occurrences)

Shun (14 Occurrences)

Fall (522 Occurrences)

Passion (82 Occurrences)

Corinth (13 Occurrences)

Machpelah (6 Occurrences)

Nature (80 Occurrences)

Death Sentence
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