But, it's not the final word

Indeed, in the Christian story Jesus is the second Adam, the Son of God sent forth not one day after the next but in the “fullness of time” (Gal 4:4). In the Christian telling of it, the fact that Jesus was the “son of Adam, the son of God” meant that he could restart the story, write the first chapter of human life—again. Where the First human being was tempted and failed, the Second resisted temptation and began things anew: you shall not, he says to the Tempter, tempt the Lord thy God. He who “knew no sin” was able to redo creation itself, to set on a new foundation that which human life had become. “Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is anything—but new creation!” (Gal 6:15). “If anyone is in Christ—new creation! The old things have gone away and, behold!, new things have come!” (2 Cor 5:17).—One True Life: The Stoics and Early Christians as Rival Traditions, 218