made it possible for humanity to have a new goal: life because of grace instead of death because of sin. It is this act of setting humanity off in a new direction that makes Christ the second originator, the “second Adam.” By undoing, through obedience, what Adam did by disobedience, Christ turns humanity in a new direction, toward a new goal. That new goal will not become evident, however, until the end of the present age and the beginning of the new age, when God’s lordship will be visible and
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