The Two Natures

The origin of death is moral, not physical. Adam’s moral failure started a physical process that culminated in his physical death. It took 930 years for this process to work itself out towards Adam’s death. The death process has become shorter since. The average human lifespan today is 82 years.

Christ, on the other hand, experienced death, but not because of moral failure. His death came about as a result of the logical outworkings of the processes that were already at work in the world since the time of Adam. Some names for some of these processes are “envy” and “jealousy”. Christ was put to death because of the envy and jealousy of the ruling religious party of the time. He lived a perfect life and it took only three days for His perfect life to reverse His death.

If Christ lived a perfect life, then His response to the Adamic natural processes constitutes a pattern for overcoming death and corruption. However, within the closed system of the Adamic nature, there can be no escape from its logical outworkings, which ultimately results in death. One needs a new nature to overcome Adamic processes. To obtain the new nature, one must be born anew. One needs a spiritual rebirth. One needs the Christ nature.

Having obtained the Christ nature, Christ’s life becomes the pattern of behavior with its set of responses to Adamic forces. These prescribed responses will lead to overcoming death and corruption at their seminal stages.