Subject: Christians before Jesus came |
Bible Note: That is not what I said. I believe that in just about every one of my posts that I have clearly stated that Jesus was the fulfillment of the OT. What I am saying is that there are very few direct 1-1 correlating prophesies about Jesus in the OT which no body else could have fulfilled. Most of the things in the NT where Jesus fulfills a prophesy are prophesy by analogy, type-antitype, etc. There is nothing wrong about this. I don't think that this takes away from Jesus as being divine...I am simply trying to show that the 1-1 direct prophesies about Jesus (eg.Isa 53)are more rare than the other types (Hos.11, Isa.7, etc)which were not originally about Jesus, but were later 'fulfilled' by him. This is not heretical or anything like that. It is just practical, Biblical Theology with respect to the OT context. I believe the same things that you do about Jesus..I just think that the Jesus we know in the NT does not need to be read into the OT as much as we like for him to be. He is just fine as he is in the NT. blessings, chesed |