of the dead comes also through a man. For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive” (1 Cor. 15:21–22). This second Adam who redeems creature and creation and restores God’s garden at the end of history is God himself, the incarnate Word. No human being can restore the garden. Only God can do that, and he does it by becoming one of us, taking on the curse of sin itself—death. By dying for us he destroys death and is raised to new life. His resurrection is a second act of creation, a