Christ’s work to one singular act. Paul does not have a single event in mind when he writes of Jesus’s one righteous act. Rather, his point is rhetorical. Paul compares the one act of Adam to the one “righteous act” of Jesus. In this case, the likely solution is that Paul has in mind the entirety of Christ’s ministry (life, death, resurrection) as His one “righteous act.” A second issue also raises its head. At first glance Paul appears to deal in universal categories. All people are guilty of sin