Perfect man Adam - dies, upsets the balance.
Perfect man Jesus - dies, brings back the balance.
equality.
a perfect life for a perfect life is the entire point. Jesus is later exalted to a superior position... But only AFTER being an equal death to Adams. Those scriptures in Romans agree, as do the Quranic verses. This was the entire point of the Ransom.... His death being equal to Adams is the very reason why his blood buys back all of mankind, becaus adams blood lost all of mankind...
again, I'll let the bible speak for itself that, "just as" adam died and ushered in sin (or in the same way, or equal to), so did Jesus also die as an equal death to balance it out and bring life where adam brought death.
ROMANS 5...
11 And not only this, but we also exult in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
12 Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned--... 14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come.
15 But the free gift is not like the transgression. For if by the transgression of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many. 16 The gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned; for on the one hand the judgment arose from one transgressionresulting in condemnation, but on the other hand the free gift arosefrom many transgressions resulting in justification.