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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah
Hello,
I have a question about typology which has always bothered me, perhaps you or anyone else might be willing to help me with this.
Let's take Isaac, a well known type of Christ. It is kind of easy to see him and think that "God created" this type. Especially when He told Abraham to sacrifice his son.
But then, look at Joseph, another type of Christ. His entire life becomes a type. So then you wonder, is God sitting there manipulating all of these different events in his life for a type, or is Joseph merely the shadow of Christ. In the same way that 4 dimensional creatures like us leave a 3 dimensional shadow, Perhaps our lives and everything on earth is a shadow of God, and the spiritual realm.
Do you have any thoughts on the mechanism behind how lives and historical events recorded in the OT are shadows?
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Here's a relevant theory for you. Both Joseph and Jesus are examples of the hero archetype which is embedded in the collective unconscious of the human psyche. Archetypes are probably based on the neurological structure of the human brain. Consequently archetypes appear in dreams and in the mythologies of many different cultures and times. This is not to deny that Jesus was an historical person. He more or less fulfilled the archetypal pattern that was projected on him by messianic expectation which is a subgroup of the Hero archetype. In many ways he did not literally fulfill the expectation but fulfilled it paradoxically. For example, the messiah was expected to be a king, but Jesus was not literally a king, quite the opposite in terms of social status.