is there a parallel between Jesus Christ and Moses.?

Answer 1

Yes, very much so. This is why Moses described the coming Messiah as "I will raise up for them a Prophet like you from among their brethren". Here are just a few examples.

1. On first coming to the Jews in servitude, was rejected.
2. Upon second coming, Jews accepted and were saved from bondage.
3. Birth was preceded by destruction of the nation's first born.
4. Delivered those in bondage to freedom.
5. Would offer himself to die for the sins of the people.
6. Spent early years in Egypt.
7. Eventually takes a Gentile bride.

Those are off the top of my head.

Answer 2

Yes there is. Both led their people from slavery into freedom. (Moses led the Israelites from slavery in Egypt to freedom in the Promised Land [although he died before actually seeing it].) (Jesus leads Christians from slavery to sin to freedom in Christ.) Also, both introduced feast celebrations to their people: Moses introduced the Passover Meal, commemorating God's role in getting the Israelites out of Egypt; Jesus introduced the Lord's Supper (which he initiated during a celebration of Passover). Both of these feasts are supposed to be experienced by the entirity of the community for which they were intended. Both have to do with the death of a lamb: Moses told the Israelites to put lamb's blood above the doorposts so that the Angel of Death would pass over the Israelite houses. Jesus is sometimes called the Lamb, because he was sacrificed and his blood saves us from death, just as a Passover lamb saved the Israelites from death.

By the way, the parallels are not because the NT copies from the OT (like both Moses & Jesus escaping death as infants). The parallels are evidence of God's wonderful plan for sending Jesus into the world to save us from our sinfulness...A plan He knew about even before Moses came along. He gave us these parallels so that we could make the necessary connections between the OT and the NT and thus know He is behind them both.

And also: Jesus never married, so that is a DIFFERENCE.

Answer 3

Absolutely. Many of the Moses stories were re-written to have Jesus in them. For instance, when Moses was born, the Pharoah killed every male child, much as Herod did. There are several others, but sadly I don't have time to list them. Check out Deconstructing Jesus or The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man by Robert M. Price. It's shocking to see just how much of the gospel narrative is just re-written old testament stories.

Answer 4

Matthew's Gospel presents Jesus in parallel with Moses: the attempt of an evil king to eliminate the deliverer by killing male infants, the presentation of his teaching on a mountain, etc.

See http://blue.butler.edu/~jfmcgrat/jesus/newmoses.htm for more details.

Answer 5

Many

1) Both were lawgivers and judges
2) Both were not native Egyptians but lived there for some time
3) We know a story of both of their births, and they were both placed in something
4) They both had beards
5) They were both loved by many and hated by others
6) They were disliked by the magistrates
7) They appointed a successor (for Moses it was Joshua, for Christ the disciples)

Major difference though, Moses was from the tribe of Levi (the tribe devoted to the priesthood) and Jesus was from the tribe of Judah.

Answer 6

Moses was able to take Israelites out of Egypt.
Jesus was able to be taken away from Israel by Rome.
I wonder if they are two parallel lines with each going in the opposite way.

Answer 7

Yes Christians follow the teaching of Jesus and Jews follow the teaching of moses. Both said there will be a prophet that will come after them.

Answer 8

Not that I know of. Moses spoke to Jesus, and vice-versa. Moses had a speech problem, Jesus didn't. Moses was unsure of his competency, Jesus wasn't. Do you know something I don't?

Answer 9

Coupla factors some might have missed: the place is "the Chair of Moses" in the old testomony? It replaced into area of Jewish religious custom, so "sola scriptura Jews" (in case you will pardon the word) might on no account have allowed it. Jesus, if He have been against all custom as some declare, might have taken this hazard to sentence it. extremely, Jesus says, "...All that they permit you recognize, do and be conscious." With those words, Jesus reinforces the significance of custom alongside with scripture. He additionally reinforces the very fact of a priestly type as distinctive from the laity. Are there some in management who do no longer stay as much as their calling? definite, now as then. yet Jesus of course wanted that equipment in place. --- @NCWJ: thank you. That replaced into very gracious of you.

Answer 10

Moses was a murderer, Jesus wasn't...where's the connection?