#bc it feels to me like a lot of times we just defer to typology instead of trying to understand Things in the Bible???
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#random theology ramble--#(everyone ignore unless you really just want to interact with my complaining/rambling right now I'll probably delete this in a couple hours#I'm starting to wonder if the way we use typology is actually that great and helpful#bc it feels to me like a lot of times we just defer to typology instead of trying to understand Things in the Bible???#like I guess if you're using it to say that God writes the story of the universe and he likes to use foreshadowing the same way human autho#*authors do... but like... sometimes I think we overuse it a lot.#also literary devices in the Bible should be understood as such. imo.#we gotta be careful not to apply things that were MEANT to be understood as poetic/metaphorical/etc as if they are strictly literal#which is something that must be done with a lot of discernment and study!#but something we should be striving to do nonetheless#delete later
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