The first Adam may have been more like the last Adam(Jesus Christ) than we ever learned in those cute "Adam and Eve" stories in Sunday school.
1 Timothy 2:13-14, "For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression." Adam was not fooled, but knew exactly what he was doing.
But why did he do it? Romans 4:14, "Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is a figure of him that was to come." Something about Adam's transgression was similar to what Christ would do. The rest of Romans 4 explains how the first Adam messed things up and the last Adam made things right(last Adam is the Lord see 1 Corinthians 15:45-47). What the first Adam failed to do, the Lord could do. What would that be...RESCUE HIS BRIDE. She was lost. She would be banned from the garden and be alone. Genesis 2:18, "...it is not good for a man to be alone; I will make him a help meet for him."
They both fore-fitted their dwelling place to be with their bride.
They both gave up their authority, dominion over all the earth to be with their bride.
Adam sinned, the Lord became sin for his bride.
They both would lose their fellowship with God the Father.
They both would suffer death to be with their bride.
I'm sure there are more similarities than these, but it does make us think that Adam might have been attempting to rescue his bride to be with her.
1 Timothy 2:13-14, "For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression." Adam was not fooled, but knew exactly what he was doing.
But why did he do it? Romans 4:14, "Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is a figure of him that was to come." Something about Adam's transgression was similar to what Christ would do. The rest of Romans 4 explains how the first Adam messed things up and the last Adam made things right(last Adam is the Lord see 1 Corinthians 15:45-47). What the first Adam failed to do, the Lord could do. What would that be...RESCUE HIS BRIDE. She was lost. She would be banned from the garden and be alone. Genesis 2:18, "...it is not good for a man to be alone; I will make him a help meet for him."
They both fore-fitted their dwelling place to be with their bride.
They both gave up their authority, dominion over all the earth to be with their bride.
Adam sinned, the Lord became sin for his bride.
They both would lose their fellowship with God the Father.
They both would suffer death to be with their bride.
I'm sure there are more similarities than these, but it does make us think that Adam might have been attempting to rescue his bride to be with her.