Humanity - are we born into Adam's corporate body before we are born again into the body of Christ?



Romans 6:6 


CLV 6 knowing this, that our old humanity was crucified together with Him, that the body of Sin may be nullified, for us by no means to be still slaving for Sin,

Romans 6:6 

knowing this, that our old human (anthropos) was crucified together with Him, that the body of the sin (missing) may-be-being nullified, we should by no means still be serving (the body of) the sin (missing), 



Was the corporate body of Adam nullified in AD 70 or just the Jewish old covenant body? 


Jesus is called the eschaton Adam not the eschaton Jew. He completed the image of God in the human under Jewish law. Jews called themselves the humans because they had God's law. Those being ruled by other elohim were called the animals. The animals were created before Adam. If all the human Adams were still in depravity until Jesus became an Adam, then surely the 'animals' were too. The first Adam never said,"If you have seen me you have seen the Father." The eschaton Adam did. Do we really need to be in Adam's covenant body to say we are still born depraved of the full image of God today? 


When the Jews were born again they received the full image of God by way of His Holy Spirit in them. Jesus worked and suffered for that privilege to be given. They were then told to put Adam to death, even though Jesus had already put him to death on the cross. Jesus released them from the legal hold of Adam under the law, yet that law covenant still existed throughout the new betrothal period, until the new marriage. We are not born again out of the old covenant anymore. Do we need to know if we are descended from Adam or from another people group? What if we are of mixed origin? Aren't we all born depraved anyway?


The progressive image of Adam under Torah or Tanakh was being taught in synagogues throughout the Roman empire. Those most likely to understand the gospel were the ones who were familiar with those writings. Gentiles knew about the Jewish humanity. Jews had been sovereignly scattered throughout the four animal kingdoms prophecied in the book of Daniel. By the time the gospel arrived the world was ready for it. Even if there are angels still watching over the nations (or churches) today, which I suppose there are, they are all promoting the image of Christ in God's people, unless there was another angel fall. 


The kingdom was taken from the elohim of Rome and given to the Elohim/human Yeshua. We don't have to inherit Adam's fall to be born depraved of God's image today. When Adam was breathed into he had the full image of God in the garden with him. Adam wasn't mature yet. The image of God in Adam matured in Christ. Now the breath of God comes from the Holy Spirit who lives in us by the rebirth. We don't want to return to the pre-fall garden or the post-fall law land.


It only seems like we are born into Adam's corporate body because most people act like his children did whether genetically related or not. But wouldn't that be the manifestation any way you look at it? People not descended from Adam are still people. Many people still see the covenant body of Christ as a body still under all the old covenant laws. That itself is a reoccurring rendition of the 'old man', even though he was put to death.


Jesus was the first human in the new creation. Adam was the first human in the old creation. The church is still today being called out of the existing population. Adam was the first called out one. There were old covenant proselytes who became circumcised and moved into God's family. In the new covenant only the true believers are really in the family of Christ, which is also called the City of God or the Bride or the Church. New covenant circumcision of the heart can be faked, but an unbeliever sitting on the church pew is positionally outside the Church.


After the covenant transition begins, the true believers are called Christians. They are the ones who put on the new human.

 

Matthew 15:26-27 (pre-covenant transition; gentiles are called dogs)

MKJV 26 But He answered and said, It is not good to take the children's bread and to throw it to dogs. 27 And she said, True, O Lord; but even the little dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' tables.

Philippians 3:2 (covenant in transition; symbolic reversal)

ALT 2 Be watching out for [or, Beware of] the dogs! Be watching out for the evil laborers! Be watching out for the mutilation [or, false circumcision]!

Revelation 22:15 (transition almost complete)

LITV 15 But outside are the dogs and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and everyone loving a lie, and making it.

Ephesians 2:12-15 (there is only one covenant man)

LITV 12 that at that time you were without Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers of the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 13 But now, in Christ Jesus you who then were afar off came to be near by the blood of Christ. 14 For He is our peace, He making us both one, and breaking down the middle wall of partition, 15 in His flesh causing to cease the enmity, the Law of the commandments in decrees, that He might in Himself create the two into one new man, making peace,

The New Humanity

Colossians 3:9-11 (all God's covenant people have Christ)

YLT 9 Lie not one to another, having put off the old man with his practices, 10 and having put on the new, which is renewed in regard to knowledge, after the image of Him who did create him; 11 where there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, foreigner, Scythian, servant, freeman—but the all and in all—Christ.

Adam was typical. Types no longer exist in the fulfilled covenant. 
 

Romans 5:14

ALT 14  But death reigned from Adam until Moses, even on the ones not having sinned according to the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is a type of the coming One.

Jesus reigns as the new representative head human. Thank God Adam does not represent me. The body of Moses was released and raised to become the body of Christ.

Before the transition to Christ, Satan was assigned to rule in the last kingdom, which contained the old covenant people. It was only fitting for Satan to end up ruling them in his kingdom. Even the archangel Michael left it up to the Lord to rescue the old covenant people from the Devil's reign. The Devil was right. They deserved to be in and remain in the death of Adam. Only one person could advocate now. 


Jude 1:9

ALT 9 But Michael the archangel, when contending with the Devil, he was arguing about the body of Moses, did not dare to bring a slanderous judgment, but he said, "May the Lord rebuke you!"

Even Paul used Satan's kingdom to do the Lord's work.


1 Corinthians 5:5

ALT 5 to hand over such a one to Satan for destruction of the flesh, so that the spirit shall be saved in the Day of the Lord Jesus.

The Devil tried to recrute Jesus for his kingdom work.


Luke 4:6

ALT 6 And the Devil said to Him, "I will give to You all this authority and their glory, because it has been handed over to me, and I give it to whomever I shall be desiring.

Jesus had different plans.

Matthew 25:41

YLT 41 Then shall he say also to those on the left hand, Go ye from me, the cursed, to the fire, the age-during, that hath been prepared for the Devil and his messengers;

 

The Jews spoke of two ages: the one they were in and the one that was about to arrive. When Jesus pointed to the municipal open valley 'incinerator', they saw smoke and fire and if the wind was blowing in the right direction, smelled rotten garbage. But if you go to Jerusalem today you will not see nor smell any of it. The Gehenna fire where the worm never dies and the fire never goes out is gone. The age of the old covenant officially ended in AD 70 and the age of the new covenant will never end. The new covenant doesn't get old again and there is no new new covenant. The new humanity of Christ will never fall into death like Adam did. 

Matthew 25:46

YLT 46 And these shall go away to punishment age-during, but the righteous to life age-during.

The end of the first age when God's covenant people were destroyed by the age-during fire is over. New covenant people have been born again into a better covenant. All God's children are safe from KJV "hell" fire. The age of life that we are presently in lasts forever. In my understanding, if one doesn't get born again into this human family then one will simply die like an animal and cease to exist. The Gehenna fire was for God's fallen ones who rejected their new humanity. The new covenant family can't fall that far. 

John 5:24 

YLT 24 `Verily, verily, I say to you—He who is hearing my word, and is believing Him who sent me, hath life age-during, and to judgment he doth not come, but hath passed out of the death to the life.

Adam fell into the death. Jesus never will. The new covenant human gives life to those in covenant with Him. Everyone in the old covenant fell into the death that Adam gave, except One. He obediently chose to enter the place of the old covenant dead ones in order to defeat it. He will never die again. He doesn't need to rescue anyone from the death of the new covenant. It doesn't exist. The new head human didn't get a death warning like Adam did. He got a death mission in order to raise humanity.  Jesus did obediently die on the tree of good and evil in the old covenant. But He was then resurrected into a new covenant. As a human, Jesus was raised under the law of good and evil but it did not bring death to Him as it did to everyone else. Today we are not under the law of Adam or Moses that brought old covenant death to everyone in it. We are under the law of the Spirit sent by the human who brings life to everyone in His family. He raises us spiritually without letting us covenantally die under law.

Old covenant unbelievers were destroyed by fire.


Jude 1:5-7 (angels also)

YLT 5 and to remind you I intend, you knowing once this, that the Lord, a people out of the land of Egypt having saved, again those who did not believe did destroy6 messengers also, those who did not keep their own principality, but did leave their proper dwelling, to a judgment of a great day, in bonds everlasting, under darkness He hath kept7 as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, in like manner to these, having given themselves to whoredom, and gone after other flesh, have been set before—an example, of fire age-during, justice suffering. 

Angels had sex with humans and produced a generation of continual violence, which brought the flood judgment. Then humans tried to have sex with the very angels sent to rescue Lot from Sodom's about-to-be destruction by fire. Sodom is cited as a typical example of the coming AD 70 destruction of God's people. The fire of destruction that was seen in God's covenant land of Jerusalem represented the fire that was happening spiritually to all old covenant unbelievers who were also being held captive. 

As the corporate head, Adam did get the 'gates' of his most holy place shut on him. The old Adam's family was finally ended in AD 70. Humanity is now Christian not Adamic. Adam is not the firstborn head of God's family anymore. He is under Christ. Everyone is still born depraved and we are born into a more or less depraved family, depending on how human our family of origin was. If we are born again, our new family is in no way depraved of the image of God. Jesus is the head of the church family. We can learn to walk with God and grow up in the family lead by the perfected humanity.