BIBLICAL CHARACTER-ADAM AND EVE (FIRST MAN AND WOMAN)

ADAM AND EVE (man and life) 

First man and woman created by God from whom all other people are descended. They freely chose to introduce sin into human experience (Genesis 1–3). The consequences of Adam and Eve's sin fell not merely upon them but upon the earth as well (Genesis 3:14-19).Their ultimate punishment was being driven from the garden (Genesis 3:22-24). This was also an act of God's mercy, for it kept humanity from living forever in a sinful state and offered the possibility of future redemption. 

In the New Testament, Jesus' genealogy is traced back to Adam (Luke 3:38). Opinion is divided on the earliest occurrence of Adam as a proper name, some preferring Genesis 2:20; others Genesis 4:25; see 5:1a,3,4,5 and 1 Chronicles 1:1. In 2 Corinthians 11:3, Eve's gullibility before the serpent is presented as undesirable. In 1 Timothy 2:11-15, women are urged to be silent and subjected to man because Adam was created before Eve and because Eve was deceived into sinning. 

Paul twice used the contrast of Christ with Adam to clarify the achievement of Christ for mankind. Romans 5:12-21 refers to Adam as the type of the One to come, although the contrast is mainly negative. Just as sin entered the world through one man, Adam (5:12), so the act of righteousness of one man, Jesus, leads to acquittal and life for all people (5:18). In 1 Corinthians 15, Paul used the Adam-Christ analogy to affirm the resurrection. 

As by a man came death, so by a Man has come resurrection (15:21). Just as the first Adam became a living being, so the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit (15:45).

Adam represented the old humanity with all its failures, while Jesus represented the new humanity as God intended humanity to be from the beginning. Jesus' sacrifice makes entrance into the new humanity possible.