Cheryl

Hi Kerryn,

You asked:

In your upcoming comments, could you pls elaborate on why all “male” are especially linked with Adam and the scriptures to support your argument. Is it to do with the fact that sperm carry “life” Or???

All males are linked with Adam because God has shown a difference between the seed of the woman and the seed of the man. We see the first reference regarding the difference in Genesis 3:15.

Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise him on the heel.

It was not the man’s seed that would bruise the serpent, but the woman’s seed. Yet we can also see that it wasn’t Eve who had the Messiah, it was Mary. Women are linked to Eve through the woman’s seed. Mary’s seed was set apart by God to be the untainted seed (the seed of the woman) that would produce the Messiah. In contrast, Genesis 5:3 shows that the man’s seed carried his image.

Genesis 5:3 When Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, he became the father of a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and name him Seth.

The Hebrew word here for “image” is tseh’-lem Hebrew #6754. Although the verse also says that Seth was in the likeness of Adam (his physical image), it also uses the term for image that means a representative figure (tseh’-lem). The word means image or likeness and is the theological word used to depict human beings as made in God’s own image. The word is also used in a concrete sense to depict images cut out of or molded from various materials. Since the fall, Adam is passing on the image of sin – a representative figure that gets passed along the entire male line. Adam’s “image” is passed on to his son. Just as Adam was created in the image of God, when he fell, his lineage was tainted by his rebellious image. All of us are sinners, but God has made a distinction regarding the seed of the man (which all males pass on) and the seed of the woman (which all females pass on).

I hope that helps.
Cheryl