doubt that the parallel and contrast between Adam and Christ is a fundamental theme of Pauline theology, but there is nothing to suggest that Adam is a copy of the heavenly Son of God. If anything, it is the other way found. Christ has come in the likeness (homoiôma) of sinful flesh, in order to redeem mankind from the effects of Adam’s sin (Rom. 8:3). In 1 Corinthians 15:45–6, we are specifically told that this order is intended by God. The first Adam is described as ‘psychic’ or ‘animal’ because