8. QUESTION 8 It is said in 1 Cor. xv 45,'The first man Adam became a living soul...', and the genealogy in Luke iii, placing Adam first after God, reads, 'who was the son of God'. Is this not contradicted by saying that Adam was a church?
ANSWER In the genealogy of Luke iii it is not said that Adam was 'the son of God', but that Adam was 'of God', that is, created by God.
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