Last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

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Originally Posted by OBW

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.

I disagree.

To my way of thinking, Paul often dropped little landmine nuggets of truth into a discourse which was only tangentially related to that particular gem.

My favorite example of this is Galatians 4:26. Others are 1 Tim. 3:15-16 and Ephesians 5:32. Hebrews has moments like this as well.

We need to care for immediate context always but not exclusively.

There is always a larger context Paul is working within and sometimes things just seem kind of plopped inappropriately in the middle of something else...