12 docs tagged with "typology"

Best for: Debates with Jewish objectors, anti-missionaries (Rabbi Tovia Singer style)

"My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior."

Use this when: guiding someone through the biblical storyline to show that Christ is not an afterthought added to the Jewish story — he is the one figure the entire Old Testament was pointing toward, step by step, from Genesis 3 to Malachi. Works in evangelism, discipleship, and against Jewish or Muslim challenges that Jesus is a departure from the Hebrew scriptures.

Use this when: someone objects that sacrificial atonement is morally primitive, that the Aqedah shows God endorses child sacrifice, or that Jesus's death has nothing to do with the Hebrew sacrificial system. Works against Jewish, Muslim, and secular objections.

Type: Apologetics Reference Document — Response to Jewish Objections

Type Did Matthew Misquote Hosea?"

"My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior."

Type: Biblical Theology Reference Document — Typology and Christology

Type: Christological Reference Document — Biblical Theology of the Seed Promise

Status: Debate topic in development (time and format TBD)

Before Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey, the rabbis had already identified the rider of Zechariah 9:9 as the Messiah. And before Zechariah wrote it, Abraham's donkey had already traveled the same road — to the same hill — carrying a son destined to be offered up and received back from the dead.

"For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed."