And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory. We are now about to examine from the point of view of genetics, embryology, and developmental physiology, certain key events which finally prepared the way for the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ as the second Adam. It is desirable, therefore, in the interests of continuity to review briefly the nature of the problem and thus to clarify what are the requirements for a Redeemer who must personally represent sinners who are dead or dying in two different ways. He thus stands before his God as a miserable sinner burdened with a defective and slowly disintegrating body, while his spirit is so corrupted that he cannot do the things he knows he should and constantly finds himself doing those things he knows he should not. Even when his spirit aspires to better things he finds his best efforts thwarted by the weakness of the flesh.
Man is in every respect a ruined creation.
Two things must therefore be accomplished for him if he is to recover his manhood as God intended it to be. It was Adam as created, physically immortal and spiritually alive, who had vanished. In order to recover his true manhood, he must recover his physical immortality and he must recover his spiritual purity. Only then can He be an acceptable substitute for such a creature as man is, in jeopardy of two kinds of death. To undo the damage introduced by the first Adam to himself and all his descendants, the second Adam must somehow reconstitute in Himself the perfection of the first Adam before he fell, thus to become Head of a new and truly human race.