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Hebrews 6 - "Did We Choose God, Or Did We Choose God?"

Click Here to Read or Listen to Hebrews 6   6 Therefore let us move beyond the elementary teachings about Christ and be taken forward to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from acts that lead to death,[a] and of faith in God, 2 instruction about cleansing rites,[b] the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. 3 And God permitting, we will do so. The author of Hebrews continues to teach on what spiritual maturity looks like. One factor is going beyond the elementary teachings of the faith. This infers that there are deeper and perhaps more complex teachings. It seems as though the believers were taking basic teachings like Baptism and turning them into elaborate rites of cleansing etc... The basic teachings about the resurrection, the laying on of hands, and repentance. “It is profoundly significant to observe how little distinctively Christian there is in this statement. Repentance, faith, resurrection, and judgment were certainly Jew