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Background Information on Adam
In Genesis 1-5 the name is given to the first human. Beyond its use as the name of the first man, "adam" is also used in the Bible as a pronoun, individually as "a human" and in a collective sense as "mankind". Genesis 1 tells of God's creation of the world and its creatures, including "adam", meaning humankind; in Genesis 2 God forms "Adam", this time meaning a single male human, out of "the dust of the ground", places him in the Garden of Eden, and forms a woman, Eve, as his companion; in Genesis 3 Adam and Eve eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge and God condemns Adam to labor on the earth for his food and to return to it on his death; Genesis 4 deals with the birth of Adam's sons, and Genesis 5 lists his descendants from Seth to Noah.
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Hymns Recommended by Experts
Charles Wesley wrote this hymn as a testimony after his conversion to belief in Christ as his Savior, marveling that Christ “emptied himself of all but love, and bled for Adam’s helpless race” (st. 2). Like so many of Charles Wesley's hymn texts, "And Can It Be" is full of allusions to and quotations from Scripture; a few of the more obvious texts are Philippians 2:7, Acts 12:6-8, Romans 8:1, and Hebrews 4:16. Wesley's use of metaphors is also noteworthy – he deftly contrasts light and darkness, life and death, slavery and freedom, and especially Christ's righteousness and our unrighteousness.
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The arc of this hymn reaches from “Eden lost” (st, 1), through all of human history until “renewed, restored, we…glimpse …the new Jerusalem” (st. 5). Of Fred Pratt Green’ many treasured hymns, this
one is not often found in hymnals, but has earned a place in the popular “Lessons and Carols” services, chosen especially to follow the traditional first scripture reading from Genesis 3
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An exposition of the teaching of Paul In Romans 9: “with sin came death” that infects all of creation, but in Jesus Christ, “new life is ours—new life, new hope” and we “receive the gift of grace.”
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