Posts Tagged: Christ

christIsInAll

Christ as the Completed Vision of Biblical Typology Genesis begins with God creating a binary world.10 The account in Genesis 1–2 comprehends God and man, heaven and earth, man and woman, good and evil, life and death, the beginning and the end.11 Later in the Genesis record a final binary will be introduced, namely, Jew and Gentile (Gen 17).12 We can display the horizons of… Read more »

The Typology of the Gospel

Who JESUS Is

typologyOfGospel

The heart of the Christian gospel is the penal, substitutionary atonement of Jesus Christ. As we should expect, this most salvific of all doctrines is taught throughout the Scriptures. It is pervasive, stated both propositionally and illustrated through many types and figures. This note considers a few examples of this foundational jurisprudential doctrine that C. S. Lewis so memorably describes as “deeper magic from before… Read more »

“Joseph…said to them, ‘You are spies; you have come to see the nakedness of the land!’…So he put them (Jacob’s sons) all together in prison three days. Now Joseph said to them the third day, ‘Do this and live, for I fear God’” (Gen 42:9, 17-19)Genesis 42:1-22 The drama of Joseph’s confrontation with his brothers, who had come to Egypt seeking bread in a time… Read more »