Types and Shadows: Adam

What does it mean that we "sinned" in Adam? It means that Adam was our Federal Head. What does that mean? Similar to an ambassador of a country, Adam represented us. If the ambassador of the US decides to murder the president of China, China would wage war on America because the ambassador represents us as if we did the act. Likewise, Adam not only represented us, but he was God's best - the prototype. If Adam sinned, then so did we. Thus, Adam's sin is "imputed" to us, meaning that we have the sin of Adam placed upon us for the reasons explained above. But the good news is, because Adam's sin was imputed to us, then Christ's righteousness could be imputed to us.

Types and Shadows: Creation

In Colossians 1:13-17, I talked about the three parts in that passage during my message: Redemption, Transition, Creation. There is actually a chiastic structure in these verses. What's a chiastic structure? In simple terms, it is an A. B. C. B1. A1. construction. Think of it like a cheeseburger with two slices of cheese on both sides of the meat in the middle. You have the bread, the cheese, and in the center, the meat - the focus of the cheeseburger. The writers of the Bible often employed chiastic structures in their writing. In fact, the whole Bible is a chiastic structure: Creation, Old Covenant, Christ, New Covenant, New Creation. The "Transition" that I mentioned briefly in my message is actually the meat of the chiastic structure in this text: "He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation" (v. 15). Christ is the center piece of both redemption and creation. Christ is the "Transition" between the "Redemption" and the "Creation" verses in our text.

My first blog!

This blog is for Common Ground Student Ministries. I am hoping that through this blog, we will have the chance to interact about God's Word. I will post mostly theological thoughts here, and I look forward to hearing from you.