Those OT people are what we call types. It is a kind of prophecy. But what it does is demonstrate that such a person is what Israel needed. Jesus was the antitype. Donald J Camp
Sure, provided there’s a supernatural entity overseeing the process. But is there?
Types and antitypes are the creation of theologians in the Middle Ages who sought to explain why Jesus embodies so much ancient Jewish folklore. It’s used today by Christians to assert that Jesus fulfils millions upon millions of prophecies from Jewish scriptures.
But does he really?
As Ark has shown us, the Moses story was created by plagiarising much older myths to construct him and his history. Now either the characters in this process were ‘types’ of Moses, he their ‘antitype’, or these earlier stories were plagiarised by Jewish writers to create Moses and his story.
Which is it? The first explanation is that all the similarities between Sargo/Inanna and Moses were engineered by a deity (or perhaps even Satan) with nothing better to do but to guide the typological process over centuries. The second requires only that human writers recognised a good story when they heard it and plundered it mercilessly for their own ends. A busy-body God or conniving writers with a religious-political agenda? It’s a tough call.
Jump forward a few centuries and lo and behold the same stories crop up again. This time, God has finally brought forth the man everyone has been waiting for. And, it turns out, there were clues to him all along in earlier characters and stories.
Either this or the creators of this character – Jesus the Christ – modelled him on those older fictional heroes, just like the rabbis who wrote about Moses years earlier. These new writers plagiarised stories of Moses, Abraham, Noah, Jonah and David (most of these largely plagiarised themselves), and made their hero do much the same things they did, but better.
So which is more likely? The divine manipulation of a middle Eastern tribe’s history and folklore forcing it to point to a Messiah who would bear no relation to that anticipated by the Jews? Or a total fabrication by clever writers who followed in the footsteps of earlier writers who also stole stories from older sources and recycled them as their own?
Don’t be fooled by fancy terms like types and antitypes. What does Occam’s razor tell you?
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Ironically, the first time I came across this idea was when I was looking for background on Moses for a fantasy novel I was busy writing ;the antagonist being a satire on the original.
Imagine my initial consternation then absolute glee when I discovered that Moses was also a work of fiction.
I think the idea of him being a composite hero character may have been first proposed by Martin Noth…. don’t know for sure.
It was this discovery that encouraged me to read the bible, and like Asimov once noted, the best way to become an atheist is to read the bible.
I am almost at the point where I am pretty sure the Jesus character was created from whole cloth and there was no specific itinerrant Rabbi figure he was based upon.
My primary reason for this being : why have an obviously fictional Divine Messiah character if there was even the slightest possibility he could be traced back to a real (albeit boringly normal) individual who strode around Galilee.
In short, Christianity is the longest run ruse based on lots of older ruses.
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Christianity is, I have said to many in the past, the greatest hoax ever perpetrated upon humanity. It is entirely man-made, formed out of a base of old-world mythology mixed with a minor amount of twisted, maligned “history”. Of course, in the old world many if not most would never have had the educational or intellectual wherewithal to process it for what is truly is; a Ponzi-type scheme for power, wealth, and control.
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