Corporate Repentance - Robert J. Wieland

is concerned. Given the right circumstances, any
hungry lion will be a man-eater.
Does Jesus say in His message to Laodicea that
our pride, our blindness, our spiritual poverty, our
wretchedness, are corporate? Do we partake of a
common spiritual disease that is like a fever to a
body or a lion's nature—something pervading the
whole? The Hebrew mind says yes.
The Bible Idea of “Adam”
The Bible writers perceived the whole of
humanity as being one corporate man—the fallen
"Adam." "In Adam all die" (1 Corinthians 15:22).
An outstanding example is found in Hebrews. Paul
said that Levi paid "tithes in Abraham. For he was
yet in the loins of his [great-grand] father, when
Melchizedek met him." Abraham did not yet have
even one son (Hebrews 7:9, 10, KJV). Daniel asks
forgiveness for the sins of "our fathers," saying,
"We have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our
God," although he himself had been obedient (9:8-
11).
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