The Elementary Principles Of Christ

Hebrews 5:11-14
We have much to say about this, but it is hard to make it clear to you because you no longer try to understand. 12 In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again. You need milk, not solid food! 13 Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. 14 But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.

1 Peter 2:1-2
Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind. 2 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, 3 now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.

1 Corinthians 3:1-4
Brothers and sisters, I could not address you as people who live by the Spirit but as people who are still worldly—mere infants in Christ. 2 I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready. 3 You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere humans? 4 For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not mere human beings?

1 John 2:12-14
I am writing to you, dear children,
because your sins have been forgiven on account of his name.
13 I am writing to you, fathers,
because you know him who is from the beginning.
I am writing to you, young men,
because you have overcome the evil one.

14 I write to you, dear children,
because you know the Father.
I write to you, fathers,
because you know him who is from the beginning.
I write to you, young men,
because you are strong,
and the word of God lives in you,
and you have overcome the evil one.

Minister Monardo said:

Hebrews 6:
1 Therefore, leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ, let us go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,
2 of the doctrine of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
3 And this we will do if God permits.

Is this a complete list?

Repentance And Faith Acts 20:21
Doctrine of Baptisms Acts 1:5, Matthew 3:11
Resurrection Of The Dead And Judgment
John 5, Romans 2, 2 Corinthians 5:10, 1 John 4:17
Laying on of Hands Acts 8:18, 1 Timothy 4:14

Is there anything you would add, such as
"if you die in the next two minutes, you will
go straight to heaven". Please include scriptures.

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Yet it seems to me an equally important issue is the non-elementary principles.

"You need milk, not solid food! 13 Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. 14 But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil."

Was this audience mature? Clearly NOT. He did NOT give them solid food. Neither did Peter (1 Peter 2:2), and neither did Paul (1Cor 3:1-2). In all these cases, the believers were deemed babes unfit for solid food. So what did Paul, Peter, and the writer of Hebrews give unto them? Scripture!

They received Scripture INSTEAD OF solid food! Scripture is not solid food! Chrysostom admitted that nowhere "has Scripture discoursed to us of these things." What is solid food? As indicated in 1Cor 2:6-3:2, it's premium-grade Direct Revelation disbursed to the apostles and prophets and thus reserved for the mature. Thus Paul's discussion in chapters 12, 13, 14 - three chapters emphasizing the gifts "especially prophecy" (14:1) - is a natural culmination. That's about 75 verses on the gifts. That same Paul never urges the church unto biblical scholarship! (At least not to the church as a whole, albeit perhaps to the prophet Timothy).

The upshot is this. 2,000 years later the church is still feeding mostly on babes milk, not solid food! This is because, throughout history, the church has placed more emphasis on exegesis (bible scholarship) than Direct Revelation. Note for example the widespread popularity of the self-contradictory "doctrine" (if we really want to so dignify it) known as "Sola Scriptura".