Hi Patti,
"Jesus is the
last Adam, he is part of the human family and had flesh
and blood inherited from them.When he died for us, and rose again, his
body became a spiritual body just like the first Adam
had before the Fall."
We know that the
Lord Jesus Christ had a spiritual body of flesh and bones
when He was resurrected from the dead which was His
immortal, incorruptible body. According to Luke
24:37 Jesus' disciples were terrified and afraid supposing
that they had seen a spirit when Jesus appeared to
him. In Luke 24:39-40
Jesus says, “Behold my hands and my
feet, that it is I myself: handle me and see; for a spirit
hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have. And when he
had thus spoken, he showed them his hands and his
feet."
So no, I don't
think that the first Adam had the spiritual body of flesh
and bone that you claimed he had before his fall in
the Garden of Eden since Jesus' spiritual body after He
was resurrected from the dead was an immortal, spiritual
body of flesh and bones; otherwise, I don't think that the
Lord would have needed to say what He said in Genesis
3:22-23, "And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become
as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put
forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and
eat, and live for ever: therefore the Lord God sent
him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from
whence he was taken." This means that Adam and Eve
didn't have eternal life before they left the
Garden. If Adam and Eve had spiritual bodies
of flesh and bone that were immortal like Jesus had, then
they would have been immortal fallen creatures after they
became disobedient. I think Adam and Eve had
flesh and blood bodies, and the Lord didn't want them now
to take of the fruit of the tree of life to receive
eternal life which would have included immortal, spiritual
bodies.
The apostle Paul gives us more
information about the natural body and the spiritual
body in the following
verses:
1 Corinthians 15:39, "All flesh [is]
not the same flesh: but [there is] one [kind of] flesh of
men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, [and]
another of birds."
1 Corinthians 15:44-50, "It is sown a
natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a
natural body, and there is a spiritual body. And so it is
written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last
Adam [was made] a quickening spirit. Howbeit that [was] not
first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and
afterward that which is spiritual. The first man [is] of the
earth, earthy: the second man [is] the Lord from heaven. As
[is] the earthy, such [are] they also that are earthy: and
as [is] the heavenly, such [are] they also that are
heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we
shall also bear the image of the heavenly. Now this I say,
brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of
God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I
shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all
be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the
last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall
be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this
corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal [must]
put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put
on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on
immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that
is written, Death is swallowed up in victory."
So the first man Adam had a natural
body created from the dust of the earth and not an immortal,
spiritual body. It's too bad that Adam and Eve didn't
eat of the tree of life while they were in the Garden of
Eden before they were disobedient so that they could have
had eternal life.