“Adam received the curse: ‘Cursed is the ground for your sake…thorns and also thistles shall it bring forth’ (Genesis 3:17-18); for this cause, Christ received the crown of thorns. Adam realized he was naked and was expelled from the garden; Christ hung naked on the Cross, bringing us back into Paradise. The sword was placed to guard the Tree of Life; the sword that pierced Christ’s side removed it. Adam stretched out his hands in disobedience; Christ stretched out His hands in obedience to the Father. Adam ate of the forbidden Tree out of pride, wanting to become like God; Christ tasted gall and bitterness in humiliation and the unthinkable self-emptying of His divinity (Philippians 2:5-8). As St. Paul says, ‘For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as all in Adam die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive’ (1 Corinthians 15:21-22).
In short, Adam failed to fulfill his calling; but Christ, point-by-point, set aright the stumblings of the first-created man.”
~From Acquiring The Mind of Christ
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