Contrast between "the first man Adam" and "the last Adam" - A thought.

Contrast between "the first man Adam" and "the last Adam" - A thought.

About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, "Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?" (which means "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?").

Matthew 27:46 (NIV).

And at three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?" (which means "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?").

Mark 15:34 (NIV).

We all know that this is the fourth saying of our Lord Jesus Christ from the Cross. The enunciation of this clearly expresses the pain, agony and the weight of the sin that was upon Him. This made Jesus felt like, He was been left all alone in the world of "evildoers" (Mark 13:27) "darkness" (Matthew 8:12) all around Him, "weeping and gnashing of teeth" (Mark 13:28). He cannot resist this because, there is no sin in Him (John 8:46, "Can any of you prove me guilty of sin?")

But in contrast, our ancestor "first man Adam" (1Corinthians 15:45) at garden of Eden, when he had eaten the forbidden fruit shared by his wife Eve (Genesis 3), they entered into a new world of sin, fear, nakedness, hate, lies, etc. which is nothing but death. They realized that they are experiencing anew and not the past.

I believe, if Adam at that moment, when he experienced something anew, he should have cried out to the Lord, as Jesus cried out to His Father, "Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani". I am sure that the cry for desperate help from Adam would have brought in a new solution for the remedy of sin. But this didn't happen, he hid and was afraid of God. So "the last Adam" (1Corinthians 15:45) had to challenge the death by overcoming it. "O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." (1Corinthians 15:55-57).