[OBW]

There’s been a lot of discussion (ignoring the metonymy thing), but I think that KSA has basically hit the mark.

Every time I read through the whole of these verses, I see Paul explaining something about how we will be resurrected. It really is not about Christ. He is merely using the example or parallel of the first and last Adam. If Paul’s intent had been to make a radical statement about Christ becoming the Holy Spirit, he would not have buried it in this manner. It would have been the forefront of what he was saying, not simply part of the discussion of how we frail humans will be resurrected.

Surely the Christ as flesh and blood was separate from mankind. But after resurrection, flesh and blood were replaced by the spiritual. Now the Christ that gives life is doing so spiritually. Just as God is spirit, but not exclusively the Holy Spirit, so also Christ is spirit.