Where in the bible does it say Jesus Christ was the second coming of Adam?

Question

I saw a play this week, "In the Beginning" up in Lancaster, PA and they said Jesus was the second coming of Adam. I don't recall learning that in church or seeing that in the bible. I know he's supposed to be an incarnation of God but how could he be a (re) incarnation of God and Adam?

Answer 1

Not "second 'coming' of Adam" - "Second Adam" - it's a figure of theological speech...you misheard.

1 Cor. 15:22, 45

22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive. . . . 45 And so it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

Christ is a type, of a second Adam, and yet, without sin.

Answer 2

1 Cor 15:45 is the only place I could find on Bible.com using the NASB that listed Adam to reference Jesus as the last Adam. Now there may be someplace that states the "first man" and then Jesus.

Rom 5:14 talks about Adam being the pattern of the one to come.

Not sure that is the answer you are looking for.

Answer 3

"359 "In reality it is only in the mystery of the Word made flesh that the mystery of man truly becomes clear."

St. Paul tells us that the human race takes its origin from two men: Adam and Christ. . . The first man, Adam, he says, became a living soul, the last Adam a life-giving spirit. The first Adam was made by the last Adam, from whom he also received his soul, to give him life... The second Adam stamped his image on the first Adam when he created him. That is why he took on himself the role and the name of the first Adam, in order that he might not lose what he had made in his own image. The first Adam, the last Adam: the first had a beginning, the last knows no end. The last Adam is indeed the first; as he himself says: "I am the first and the last."

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"410 After his fall, man was not abandoned by God. On the contrary, God calls him and in a mysterious way heralds the coming victory over evil and his restoration from his fall . This passage in Genesis is called the Protoevangelium ("first gospel"): the first announcement of the Messiah and Redeemer, of a battle between the serpent and the Woman, and of the final victory of a descendant of hers.
411 The Christian tradition sees in this passage an announcement of the "New Adam" who, because he "became obedient unto death, even death on a cross", makes amends superabundantly for the disobedience, of Adam ... "
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504 Jesus is conceived by the Holy Spirit in the Virgin Mary's womb because he is the New Adam, who inaugurates the new creation: "The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven." <1 Cor 15:45, 47> From his conception, Christ's humanity is filled with the Holy Spirit, for God "gives him the Spirit without measure." From "his fullness" as the head of redeemed humanity "we have all received, grace upon grace."

Answer 4

It doesn't. Adam and Jesus Christ, or Jehovah of the Old Testament, are two separate entities. In the last days, Adam will come forth and deliver up the keys of the priesthood and report to the Lord Jesus Christ.

Answer 5

He's not the second coming of Adam, but Paul constrasts and compares Adam and Jesus in Romans, in the sense that Adam screwed everything up but Jesus will fix all of it.

See Romans 5:19 for instance:
"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."

I'm guessing that's what they were talking about. But I've been wrong before....

EDIT
Geez, I'm slow. In the time it took me to type that, 20 other people beat me to it....!

Answer 6

It is written that he is the last Adam (not the second coming) the first Adam sold us out, Jesus paid the price
1 Corinthians 15:44-46 (King James Version)
44It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
45And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
46Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.

Hope this helps

Answer 7

It is not a literal incarnation, but telling of a spiritual restoration. Just as man fell by Adam, it was restored by the man Jesus Christ who is God.

Romans 5:14 Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come.

Answer 8

Not the second coming of Adam. Jesus is sometimes referred to as "the second Adam". Adam gave initial birth to the human race. Jesus gave renewed life to the human race after it had forfeited eternal life by turning against God.

Answer 9

In Luke 3:38 it states the geneolgy "the son of Enosh,
the son of Seth, the son of Adam,
the son of God."

Besides that the 2 titles given Jesus were Son of God and son of Man.

The 1st is obvious, as the 2nd person of the trinity the God-Man was called Son of God. And he was called Son of Man because he was the 2nd Adam. Born perfect but never sinned.

We are sons of Adam but Jesus was the 2nd Adam.

Answer 10

It's a combination of 1 Cor. 15:22 and 1 Cor. 15:45-49