The First and Last Adams

Answers with Ken Ham

This is Ken Ham, author, speaker, and blogger on science and the Bible’s reliability.

All this week we’ve seen how the Old Testament is foundational to why Jesus came. You see, when Adam sinned, he brought the penalty for sin—death—into God’s perfect creation. The Bible makes it clear that we sin and die today because of Adam’s actions.

Now, many Christians believe that Adam was just a mythological figure or a metaphor. But without a historical Adam, the gospel falls apart.

If death existed before sin or if there was no Adam who sinned, why did Jesus have to come and die a physical death on the cross? And how did that death pay for sin?

You can’t separate the Bible’s history from the gospel!

Dig Deeper

• The Importance of an Historical Adam
• In Defense of the Historical Adam