The answer
There is no ground at all for comparison between Adam and the Lord Christ. However, we shall state the following points:
1. The Lord Christ was born in a miraculous way indeed. No one ever has been or will ever be born in such a way. Adam, on the other hand, has nothing to do with birth; for he was created from the dust of the ground which is a lower case. As he was born of the dust of the ground he was called Adam, whereas the Lord Christ is born not created.
2. The Lord Christ is the Word of God (John 1:1), but Adam is just a servant of God.
3. The Lord Christ is distinguished from Adam by holiness and perfection.
Adam sinned and drew with him all the world to sin, but the Lord Christ is the only One who never sinned and is so called Holy (Luke 1:35). He is the only One who defied His generation, saying, "Which of you convicts Me of sin?" (John 8:46).
4. Adam - because of his sin - was driven out of Paradise (the Garden). But the Lord Christ came to save Adam and his offspring and bring them again to Paradise. Is it reasonable then that he who was driven out of Paradise be greater than Him who brought him back to it?
5. Adam died and turned into dust after being eaten by worms and no one knows where he was buried. But the Lord Christ saw no corruption in His body. No one ever said that His body was eaten by worms, for He ascended to heaven and sat on the right hand of the Father.
6. Adam did not rise from the dead up till now and still waits the general resurrection, whereas the Lord Christ did rise in great glory and He will come at the end of ages for judgement, to judge the quick and the dead.
7. We never heard that Adam had a message to the world nor even had a history except that he was created, he sinned, he was driven out of Paradise and died and one of his sons was the first murderer in the world. But the Lord Christ had a great message; that of Salvation. He carried the sins of the whole world and died to redeem them. He rectified the errors of His generation and guided the people of His time, whereas Adam never did anything like this.
8. The Lord Christ was the Master and Teacher; He left the greatest doctrines to His generation and to all generations. All who heard Him were astonished at His nderstanding (Luke 2:47). But our father Adam left us nothing, not even a word or a piece of advice!
9. The Lord Christ worked miracles which no one ever worked, such as raising the dead, creating and wonderful healing miracles like that of healing the man born blind (John 9). We never heard that our father Adam worked a single miracle! Can we then compare him to the Lord Christ of Whom St. John the Beloved said that He had done many other miracles if written one by one, even the world itself could not contain the books that would be written (John 21:25).
10. The Lord Christ possessed the attributes of leadership, so He was followed by thousands; whereas Adam did not lead anyone, not even his wife but was rather led by her when she gave him of the prohibited fruit and he ate, contravening the commandment.
11. All the aforementioned is related to the human aspect, but with respect to the divinity of the Lord Christ, we cannot compare a person created to Him Who, "All things were made through Him and without Him nothing was made that was made." (John 1:3). This single point needs a whole book on Christ's Divinity.
12. It is true that Adam is the father of all of us, but to say that he is greater than the Lord Christ is unreasonable and unacceptable. Many of Adam's offspring were greater than him! And this has nothing to do with the respect due to him being a father.
Thrice-Blessed Pope Shenouda III of Blessed Memory