Who JESUS Is…
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 »
Where in the Bible …is Resurrection
Recalling Adam and the first garden, with its two trees of death and life in the midst (Gen 2:9), the evangelist poetically places Jesus’ cross in the midst (John 19:18) of his account of the Garden of Gethsemane (John 18:1) and the Garden Tomb (John 19:41). It is upon the cross, then, that John presents Jesus as the new Adam, whose own tree of cursing… Read more »
Where in the Bible …is Resurrection
(Genesis 2:18-24) We begin with Paul’s magnificent reading of Moses’ account of the creation of Eve. In his Ephesian letter Paul describes the privilege of the Christian husband to imitate Christ’s own sacrificial love in his relationship to his wife. “Husbands love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her” (Eph 5:25). The apostle derives his doctrine from the… Read more »