Sentence:  That parallelism affects his picture of man 's disobedience too ; for as it was <WSD>Christ</WSD> , the Word of God , who came to rescue man , so it was disobedience to the word of God in the beginning that brought death into the world , and all our woe . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a teacher and prophet born in Bethlehem and active in Nazareth; his life and sermons form the basis for Christianity (circa 4 BC - AD 29)