Covenant Reformed News – April 2025 • Volume XX, Issue 12
This article expounds the Adam-Christ typology in Romans 5, explaining how Adam's federal headship brought sin, condemnation, and death to all humanity through imputation, while Christ's federal headship brings righteousness, justification, and eternal life to the elect through His perfect obedience. The piece emphasizes the forensic or legal aspects of representation rather than personal or natural similarities, grounding the doctrine of imputation in Scripture.
Adam-Christ Typology (2) What about Adam’s federal or covenant headship? Adam sinned by eating the forbidden fruit. As our federal head, the first sin of the first man is reckoned or imputed to all whom he represented. Because all sinned in him, all are judged by God, and so are conceived and born in total depravity. That original sin brought spiritual death upon the human race. “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that...