People have debates on what these passages really mean. I will explain that these words could mean.
1) It refers to Christians losing their salvation.
2) It is a hypothetical argument to warn immature Hebrew Christians (Hebrews 5:11-14) that they must progress to maturity (Hebrews 6:1) or else experience divine discipline Hebrews (Hebrews 7-8).
3) It refers to professing Christians whose apostasy proves that their faith was not genuine (1 John 2:19).
This view sees chapters 3-4 as a warning based on the rebellion of the Jews in the desert.
As Isreal could not enter the promise land after spying out the land and tasting its fruit so the professing Hebrew Christians would not be able to repent if they adamantly turned against "the light" they had received. According to this view, such expressions as "shared in the Holy Spirit", and "enlightened" indicate that such a persons had come over the influence of God's pact blessings and had professed to turn from darkness to light but were in danger of a public and final rejection of Christ, proving they had never been regenerated (Hebrews 10:26-31).
No comments:
Post a Comment