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1 | Did I miss something in the text? | Bible general Archive 4 | Tamara Brewington | 203863 | ||
I came across a situation where I had to write a paper on Christ in the OT. One of the scriptures under inspection for the general reading was Genesis 11:1-8 the story of the tower of Babel (don't ask me how this had to with Christ in the OT, cause I honestly don't know). The professor gave the verses but wrote his own version of the story with the people being oppressed by the rulers of Babel to build the tower and having many languages and then a commond language, intsead of one common langauge in all the earth. He did have God confuse the one language at the end of his version. There were other things in the paper. I wrote citing the actual verses in full that there was no oppression, the people as one got together and built the tower and there was one common language in all the earth. I got and A on the paper, but he wrote and I quote,"I took liberty to do some deducing, but the Bible doesn't contradict it". Did I miss something in the text? | ||||||
2 | Did I miss something in the text? | Bible general Archive 4 | DocTrinsograce | 203864 | ||
Hi, Tamara... Christ, is, indeed, on every page of Scripture. He is the Word incarnate! I've not heard that particular spin on the Tower of Babel. Josephus continues with "they built a tower, neither sparing any pains, nor being in any degree negligent about the work: and, by reason of the multitude of hands employed in it, it grew very high, sooner than any one could expect; but the thickness of it was so great, and it was so strongly built, that thereby its great height seemed, upon the view, to be less than it really was. It was built of burnt brick, cemented together with mortar, made of bitumen, that it might not be liable to admit water." In other words, they built this tall, water-proof tower as a place to flee, if God should bring judgment upon them as He had done in the deluge. Isn't that so like man? We tend to think so highly of ourselves that we even imagine we can thwart the hand of God! How childish we are! I've got to hit the sack, I'm afraid... but if you look up John Piper's sermon on the Tower of Babel (www.desiringgod.org), I think you will find it a blessing... and you'll see how Christ fits into the picture, too! In Him, Doc "On every page of the Bible I behold nothing but the cross, and its amazing retinue of suffering and glory. For me, patriarch and prophet and apostle all utter one voice, all point to Calvary, and cry, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world! As a minister, as a sinner, I have no theme, no hope, but Christ Jesus and Him crucified. On Him and Him alone, on the redundant merit of His atonement, my soul leans with a recumbency, a confidence, a delight unspeakable and full of glory." --Richard Fuller |
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3 | Did I miss something in the text? | Bible general Archive 4 | Tamara Brewington | 203872 | ||
Doc, thanks for the bit from Josephus and the link for that sermon. I hear you that Christ is on every page... The course was about theophanies of Christ and types of Christ in the OT. Trying to see still how what happened at the tower of Babel fits that criteria... See how man being sinful and trying to reach heaven without redemption has to do with Christ though. | ||||||
4 | Did I miss something in the text? | Bible general Archive 4 | DocTrinsograce | 203891 | ||
Hi, Tamara... When Scripture doesn't give us the authority for a type, then we lack the authority to make those connections. Here are some valid examples: we know that the brass serpent of Numbers 21:9 is a type of Christ because we have the authority of John 3:14 to see it as a type; we know that Adam of Genesis 2 was a anti-type of Christ because we have the authority of 1 Corinthians 15:47 to see Adam as a anti-type; we know that Melchizedek of Genesis 14 was a type of Christ because we have the authority of Hebrews 7 to see Melchizedek as a type; Noah's preservation in the flood prefigured baptism per 1 Peter 3:20-21; etc. On the other hand, we can't, for example, consider Joshua a type of Jesus. Scripture gives us no such authority. The fact that they had the same name is not sufficient reason for us to make a typological connection. Certainly man's sinfulness and God's sovereign, righteous judgment can be seen in the narrative of the Tower of Babel. But we do not have Scriptural authority to read into it an allegory. That would be a serious violation of sound, grammatico-historical exegesis. In Him, Doc |
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5 | Did I miss something in the text? | Bible general Archive 4 | Tamara Brewington | 203915 | ||
Thank you Doc for settling this matter. This is important information, for instance I was given a bunch of scriptures for Types of Christ in the OT, that I think are eisegesis; Israel the nation as a type for Christ - Hosea 1:11,Mathew 1:25, the Temmple of Solomon as a type for Christ - Ezekiel 11:16, 37:26, Psalm 11:42, the sacrifices of Israel as a type for Christ - Hosea 13:14, Psalm 40, the priest as a type for Christ - Psalm 110, 70, Deuteronomy 32:43, the savior as a type for Christ Numbers 20:16, Ezekiel 33:2,3, the covenant as a type for Christ - Genesis 15, 22. This is the kind of thing that was also happening in this class. Agape, Tamara | ||||||
6 | Did I miss something in the text? | Bible general Archive 4 | DocTrinsograce | 203945 | ||
Isn't the analogy of faith (Scripture explains Scripture) cool? (See post #156917.) | ||||||