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Adam as the good guy of the Garden of Eden, perfectly echoing the Apostle Paul's comment that 'Adam was a foreshadowing of Christ'

James A. Ivy, Sr., is pastor and founder of Decision Baptist Church in Raleigh, North Carolina, and Dynamic Infusion Ministries. He is a native of Bessemer, Alabama. He was raised in Centreville, Illinois, where he met his wife Betty J. (Wells) Ivy. Pastor Ivy received Jesus Christ as his personal Savior at the age of 12 on Resurrection Sunday, 1961 and received his call into the ministry on April 30, 1968. He has been in the ministry for 42 years, and has served in the position of pastor for 33 years in churches throughout the United States (Apex, North Carolina; Anchorage, Alaska; Binghamton, New York; Madison, Wisconsin; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and East St. Louis, Illinois). He had the unique experience of being called twice to serve as pastor of Second Baptist Church of Madison, Wisconsin. He received his theological training from Brookes Bible Institute, St. Louis, MO; International Baptist Bible College, East St. Louis, IL; Carver Baptist Bible College, Kansas City, MO; and Alaska Bible College, Anchorage, AK. He has a D. Min. from United Christian College and a Master of Arts with a major in Divinity Distinction from Trinity College

Adam Clarke was a 19th century British Methodist best known for his scholarly commentaries on the Bible, a multi-volume, comprehensive work.