What is the differences between types and shadows in the bible?

Answer 1

The first thing that must be understood about the Bible is that everything in it in some way points to Jesus Christ. Throughout the Old Testament, God uses history to portray patterns or "types" to demonstrate the message of salvation through Christ.

In Luke 24:27, we can see that Jesus uses this to explain the message of salvation: "And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself."

In several places in the New Testament, different pieces of the history of the Old Testament are shown, For example, in Romans 5:14-20, Paul shows that Adam (the first man) was a "pattern of the one to come" meaning Christ. In another

The stories of the Old Testament are all types and shadows, because they weren't the real thing.

Answer 2

The meaning is similar, but the KJV Bible, though it does not talk of types; shadows occurs in 81 verses.

In Colossians 2.16, 17, we can see that all our religious observances are simply a shadow of things to come when Jesus Christ returns:

Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:

Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.