Hi Family,
How and when are we as Christians ready to go from the milk of the Word to the meat?
How do we know?
Natsumi Lam
How and when are we as Christians ready to go from the milk of the Word to the meat?
How do we know?
Natsumi Lam
When something inside you causes you to want more than you have been getting. There isn't a timetable, everyone is different. It's when you have devoured everything on the level you were on, making you ready to take the next step.Hi Family,
How and when are we as Christians ready to go from the milk of the Word to the meat?
How do we know?
Natsumi Lam
Hi Family,
How and when are we as Christians ready to go from the milk of the Word to the meat?
How do we know?
Natsumi Lam
Why would they have to deny?The "meat of the word" is introduced at Hebrews 5:12 leading to "leaving the elementary principles" of the word of Hebrews 6. Yet the lesson of the plain reading of Hebrews 6 is one of the most often denied teachings of the new testament.
So is a person prepared to receive the "meat of the word" before, during, or after denying what it says?
Why would they have to deny?
And then there are those whose traditions teach that a person who has lost their salvation CAN return to the faith, if certain conditions, set by the church, are met. This, in fact, is what most churches, who hold the position that salvation can be lost, actually teach (which is why Hebrews 6:4-6 says way more than many churches, who believe/teach this, wish it did )Hebrews 6 describes the fate of a Christian who falls away from the faith. It teaches that should a person fall away they cannot return.
Hebrews 12 is similar in comparing such a person to Esau, who sold his birthright and could not get it back.
But there are those churches whose traditions teach that a person cannot fall away, and in discussions of Hebrews 6 resort to verbal gymnastics to change the meaning to fit their traditions.
And then there are those whose traditions teach that a person who has lost their salvation CAN return to the faith, if certain conditions, set by the church, are met. This, in fact, is what most churches, who hold the position that salvation can be lost, actually teach (which is why Hebrews 6:4-6 says way more than many churches, who believe/teach that salvation can be lost, wish it did )
The descriptive language used in Hebrews 6:4-5 is unusual, to say the very least. One thing is made perfectly clear however in Hebrews 6:6 (that you just pointed out above), if Hebrews 6:5-6 is actually talking about the loss of one's salvation, then v6 makes it abundantly clear that someone who loses it will never get it back.
--David
And then there are those whose traditions teach that a person who has fallen away CAN return to the faith, if certain conditions, set by the church, are met. This, in fact, is what most churches, who hold the position that salvation can be lost, actually teach (which is why Hebrews 6:4-6 says way more than many churches, who believe/teach that salvation can be lost, wish it did )
The descriptive language used in Hebrews 6:4-5 is unusual, to say the very least. One thing is made perfectly clear however in Hebrews 6:6 (that you just pointed out above), if Hebrews 6:5-6 is actually talking about the loss of one's salvation, then v6 makes it abundantly clear that someone who loses it will never get it back.
--David
Hi Family,
How and when are we as Christians ready to go from the milk of the Word to the meat?
How do we know?
Natsumi Lam
Why would you need to know?Hi Family,
How and when are we as Christians ready to go from the milk of the Word to the meat?
How do we know?
Natsumi Lam
Legalists can be brought back to Grace having never lost faith.And then there are those whose traditions teach that a person who has lost their salvation CAN return to the faith, if certain conditions, set by the church, are met. This, in fact, is what most churches, who hold the position that salvation can be lost, actually teach (which is why Hebrews 6:4-6 says way more than many churches, who believe/teach this, wish it did )
The descriptive language used in Hebrews 6:4-5 is unusual, to say the very least. One thing is made perfectly clear however in Hebrews 6:6 (that you just pointed out above), if Hebrews 6:5-6 is actually talking about the loss of one's salvation, then v6 makes it abundantly clear that someone who loses it will never get it back.
--David
Hi Family,
How and when are we as Christians ready to go from the milk of the Word to the meat?
How do we know?
I mean the logistics of converting milk to meat.When we realize we have been chewing on the cup the milk was in.
I mean the logistics of converting milk to meat.
An interesting analogy. Sometimes the cup is called the cup of suffering and other times the cup of blessing.When we realize we have been chewing on the cup the milk was in.