Leaving The Principles of The Doctrine of Christ

Let Us Go Onto Perfection

March 4, 2013

Our title is a direct quote from where the writer said:

“Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God.  Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of lying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.”   Hebrews 6:1-2

Now what He has said might sound a bit controversial, but no, we learned those truths and believed them to saving of the soul.

My understanding is that the principle doctrine of Christ is the birthright of the newborn in Christ but it is not the will of God that they remain as such at this level of understanding.

Peter said: “As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:” 1 Peter 2:2 

However, the Hebrew scribe said that it was time to move on.   He wrote: “For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.   For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.”  Hebrews 5:12-13  

It has been said that the Church is famished because they are being fed with milk rather than with meat.     Paul said:  “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” 2 Timothy 2:15

If God had His way, the weak in Paul’s stimulus would only be the newborn in Christ.  However, that is seldom the case, for some were saved decades earlier, but yet they are on the milk of the WORD.

May God’s blessings be upon all,

Amen!