Character Profiles: Adam

Good News: We have reached the long-awaited completion of our study over Psalms 119.

Bad News: We covered just as much meaty information tonight, and I’m not even sure where a good place would be to start laying that down in a follow-able format. [That’s a good problem to have, though!]

So tonight we dove right into the second portion of what we’ve coined character dissection, this week covering ‘The Adams.’ Naturally, when regarding Biblical characters, most would immediately think of Adam, and then be lost in identifying the other Adam. [That was me, too, don’t worry.]

We started with of course the first Adam, who we all can track back to the Garden of Eden, when God created him from the earth and of His own image. I don’t know why it struck me as perhaps a novel presentation of the fact that Adam was the first, the original, and the only person to ever walk the earth that was created directly of God. He wasn’t born; he was made. There’s no record to break, no title to transfer. He was the original man. Of course, I already knew all of that, but that’s God for ya: He’ll open your ears and your heart at a different angle than what you’d already tried to do yourself. Love.

From Adam [then Eve, and the entrance of the original sin into the world], we journeyed in our study to the second Adam. Who’s that? Jesus J. The other ‘One-and-only,’ but for a completely different reason and purpose. I hadn’t previously thought of it this way, but since I’m all about illustrations, I figured I’d outline the generics of our study here [both for your eyeballing and for my own referencing later on].



of the many, many artistic interpretations of these characters [thanks, google]
adam & eve | Jesus

You’ve got Adam [the actual Adam], and you’ve got Adam#2 [Jesus, and by no means am I trying to distract from the fact that He was in fact Jesus, in all of His due honor], creating the following little thought ditties:

Adam was the gateway for sin to exit the world.
Jesus is the gateway for it to exit.

Adam was breathed of God.
Jesus was God.

Adam was the first man to audibly speak with God.
Jesus was that voice.

* These could go on all day J.

I’ve got the complete series of notes tucked away in the pages of my church Bible [p.s. –Amen that we live in a country who affords us the freedom to own not just one, but however many Bibles we desire. I will not take that for granted….], so I’ll have to refresh on passage references for everyone, too.

It’s been a good day.
God is GOOD.

xo | cmd