A Picture of Saving Grace

How does the Scripture illustrate how God is pleased to save sinners by His grace and not by works? What does the Scripture tell us about the ‘first Adam’ by whom God ordained the fall of man and the ‘Second Adam’ (Christ) in Whom God ordained the salvation of those sinners He purposed to save? What is the role of the woman in a marriage? How can we see a parallel in God creating a bride for Adam and God creating a bride for His Son? How is the role of the woman a depiction of the sinners saved by grace in Christ’s Church? How is it that God predestined and foreknew in advance those He had purposed to save by His grace in Christ? How do we see Christ as the ‘First Fruit’ that all things? Why did the Father ordain all things to be made by His Son and for His Son?