Type (Theology)

A type in biblical theology is a figure, representation, event, or symbol in the bible which is believed to be a prefigurement designed by God to foreshadow things to come. An antitype is the thing which is foreshadowed. The terms are used particularly to refer to types in the Old Testament that have their antitypes in the New Testament. Some examples of types in the bible:
  • Paul, writing the Epistle to the Romans, says that Adam is as a type of Jesus (Romans 5:12), since Adam's sin caused everyone to be condemned to death, but Jesus' righteousness caused everyone to have life. Here, Jesus would then be Adam's antitype.
  • While in the wilderness, Moses put a brazen serpent on a pole which would heal anyone bitten by a snake who looked at it (Numbers 21:8). Jesus proclaimed that the serpent, as a symbol of saving faith, was a type of himself, since "as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wildemess, even so must the Son of man be lifted up" (John 3:14).
  • One might say that Noah's Flood typified the sudden destruction of the world that will happen in the future.

External link

*A Study of Biblical Typology (Wayne Jackson, Christian Courier)

 

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