Being

1 Corinthians 15:45 - Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.


Genesis 2:5-7 - When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, and a mist was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground—then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

Romans 5:14 - Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.

Romans 8:2 - For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.

Application:

· I am made in the image of God, unlike any other species on earth.
· Adam brought universal ruin on the human race. Christ brought universal blessing.
· Through Christ Jesus, the controlling power of the life-giving Spirit has set me free from the controlling power of death-producing sin.

All Scripture verses taken from ESV