Last Adam Last Adam The Last Adam, also given as the Final Adam or the Ultimate Adam, is a title given to Jesus in the New Testament. Similar titles that also refer to Jesus include Second Adam and New Adam. John MacArthur equates the Last Adam with the Second Adam. Twice in the New Testament an explicit comparison is made between Jesus and Adam. In Romans 5:12–21, Paul argues that "just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous" (Romans 5:19, NIV).
What Makes Love Last? What Makes Love Last? What Makes Love Last?, by John Gottman, is a discussion of trust, intimacy and what the authors claim to be the secrets to love's longevity. The book is the product of 40 years of research culled from Gottman's "Love Lab," an observational program based at the University of Washington. There, he subjects "long-term romance to scientific scrutiny" via the analysis of a couple's physical and psychological behavior and their social interactions and routines. The authors describe what Gottman calls the "Four Horsemen" of a couple's back-and-forth negative interactions: criticism, contempt, defensiveness and stonewalling. According to Gottman,