Satan as a "type of Christ"

[Yeshua1]

I need to be clear as well, SG, because it comes up a lot in these conversations.

I know and fully acknowledge that neither you or MM believe Christ actually sinned.

My disagreement is not that Christ came in the likeness of sinful flesh, that God spared not His only Son, or that it was God's predetermined plan that Christ suffer death on the cross. I agree it was God's will "to crush Him" and that Christ bore our sins.

The issue, however, is whether Satan is a type of Christ. You see, I believe Christ "becoming sin" points to the cross in that it is defined by those passages you mention. He bore our sin, God laid our iniquities on Him, and He suffered the cross so that by His stripes we are healed.

But that does not mean I believe Satan is a type of Christ. I believe an improper emphasis on "made sin" led both of you to an unbiblical conclusion.

Jesus came in slnless humanity, correct?

 

[Salty]

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[percho]

I think we may be talking past each other to an extent. Adam was a type of Christ because they were both representatives of man. But the firse Adam is not like the Last Adam. The same is true of the high priest and Christ as High Priest (see Hebrews). The same is true of Jonah. And, now that I think of it, probably any type.

The type points to the One it represents. It is the same type, not the same.

Satan and Christ are not the same type.

I believe before the foundation of the world, the first Adam would be made in order that the second Adam could come into the world in the likeness of the first Adam, die for the first Adam, then be the firstborn out of the dead as the last Adam and then the first Adam could then be born again in the likeness of the last Adam, thus destroying the devil and his works.