The true nature of Jesus:´The first man, Adam, was created a living being´; but the last Adam is the life-giving Spirit. 1 Corinthians 15:45

Paul in the First Epistle to the Corinthians taught about the Christian concept of hope either as a spiritual gift or in an eschatological sense. For Paul, this spiritual Christian community, the church of Corinth, was very important since he spent a long time there during his second missionary journey, and the apostle of the Gentiles did not want this important spiritual topic to go unnoticed.
Paul, the apostle, explained in his epistle that for pagans who worship idols like money, there is no such thing as hope: "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die" 1 Corinthians 15:32. And the concept of hope in a metaphorical sense is intimately interrelated with death. Hope as a charism is the assurance of receiving the spiritual gift of eternal life (contemplative activity), and whoever receives this new spiritual life that once obtained cannot be lost is dead to sin and alive to Christ. And this is where the true nature of Jesus comes into play. For the baptized Christians, the Lord is the personification of all hope. Jesus is the new Adam, Jesus is the "son of man".
And just as through the sin of Adam death entered the world, so through the death and resurrection of our Lord all the true Christians have their sights set on true hope, that which must be received in this life as a spiritual gift and that which must be received at the end of time with the resurrection of the dead (eschatological hope), that is why Paul wrote in his epistle with wisdom and devotion: "For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive" 1 Corinthians 15:22.
To understand the spiritual mystery of hope is to understand why Jesus came to the world and preached the gospel. If the goal of Christian life is to achieve the selfish desire of happiness, the life, death, and resurrection of the Lord would have no meaning. Christianity would simply be a worldly philosophy destined to satisfy the desires of the flesh. That is why Paul, to support the understanding of hope, showed Jesus as the new man that all Christians have to resemble, and in this way, Paul expressed: "´The first man, Adam, was created a living being´; but the last Adam is the life-giving Spirit" 1 Corinthians 15:45. Through the faith in Jesus and the mystery of his nature, men are heirs of the goods of heaven, and in particular of the good of hope.

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