New Adam and Eve, by Bradley Eli

By Bradley Eli, M.Div., Ma.Th., Church Militant, December 8, 2020      

Without Jesus and Mary we’d all be dead

Without Mary, there would be no Jesus. Without Jesus, there would be no life. Christ, the Redeemer, and Mary, the Mother of the Redeemer, brought spiritual life to a world dead in sin.

Saint Paul pairs the life-giving Christ with Adam in 1 Corinthians 15:22: “And as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all shall be made alive.”

Saint Paul further explains in Roman 5:19, “For as by the disobedience of one man, many were made sinners; so also by the obedience of one, many shall be made just.”

Echoing his words, paragraph 411 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) tells how Christ reset life: “[T]he ‘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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