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Job 1:1, 8 is an expression or parable when it describes Job as ‘perfect’ because we
see that he sinned (Job 3:25, 22:4). Therefore Job 1:22 is an expression when it
says that Job ‘sinned not’ (Job 1:22).
Zecharias and his wife are described as ‘righteous’ and walking in ‘all’ His
commandments and ‘blameless’ (Luke 1:6) and Simeon is also called ‘just’ (Luke
2:25). ‘All’ here and the other statements are expressions and not literally true as
we know from other scriptures. No man is ‘good’ i.e. perfect (Luke 18:19).
When Jesus refers to the Pharisees having ‘no sin’ if they were blind he is saying
that because like all men they are aware of God in their spirits i.e. they ‘saw’
therefore they have the guilt of all the unsaved (John 9:41) which all men have
(Rom 1:20, 3:10). Another example of this expression is John 15:22 and the words
‘not had sin’ which means only the specific sin of rejecting the human Jesus before
them which is a particular sin (John 15:24). The ‘they’ in question were obviously
still unsaved and sinners.
Therefore the only innocent man under the Law was Christ and he is as the second
Adam included in the Noah of Genesis 10:1 along with Adam (Man). Hence he is
the Son of Man (Luke 17:22), the second Adam. So in this verse Noah acts as a
gategory for the individual Adam (Man), the second Adam (Christ) along with all
Men. Christ is the second or last, individual, Adam (1 Cor 15: 22, 45-47) allowing
for an eternal generic Adam comprised of those saved (Rev 20:15). As such Christ
shares the name of Noah and Adam with all men as all men are part of the first,
generic, Adam (Gen 5:2) and all eternal, saved, men are part of the second generic
Adam (Gal 3:16). Christ can have more than one name (Rev 22:13) just as God has
more than one name (Ex 3:14, Psalm 68:4, 83:18, Isaiah 42:8, Mat 28:19). Christ
Jesus was under the Law as both the obedient Lamb (John 1:29, 36) and Son to the
Father (John 1:34), whilst also both being the eternal Law as God (Deut 30:10,
John 1:1), and the beginning of the state of being under the Law (1 Tim 2:5, Rev
22:13), as well as the end (Mat 5:18, Rev 22:13) of the Law as a means for
righteousness (Rom 10:4). This is to be distinguished from the eternal present
Beginning and End that is God (Rev 22:13). Ultimately, no being is under the Law
(Phil 2:11). In his humanity on Earth Jesus was, at first, under the Law (Mat 27:46)
and then, after his death (Rom 5:10, Col 1:21-22), not under it (Mat 5:17, Rom
10:4, 1 Tim 2:5).
Noah refers in Genesis 10:1 to a generic name for mankind on the whole earth.
Japheth (Gen 10:2), Aram the ‘son’ of Shem (Gen 10:22) and other names refer to
actual people groups not single individuals. Some aspects of the Flood account