The law was given through Moses, but Moses
performed symbolic actions pointing towards Christ and actually wrote about him (John 1:17; 3:14; 5:46).
The Hebrew prophets who were his predecessors were accustomed to
perform symbolic actions to reinforce their words — «acted parables» as they are sometimes called.
Not exact matches
These
symbolic rituals could be adopted today in lieu of water baptism which might do a better job of representing our full identification with Jesus Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection, and which, when we undergo them, would cause people who know us and observe what we are doing, to ask us why we would
perform such a bizarre and morbid
action.
These are a few examples of
symbolic rituals that could be adopted today in lieu of water baptism which might do a better job of representing our full identification with Jesus Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection, and which, when we undergo them, would cause people who know us and observe what we are doing, to ask us why we would
perform such a bizarre and morbid
action.
After all, he seems not to come from a people that treats the writings of the prophet Hosea with due reverence, but he nonetheless has chosen this moment to
perform a
symbolic version of the
actions of God toward Israel as depicted in the sixth chapter.
For example, I think of painting as a stage set on which
symbolic action is
performed.