Originally posted by Rajk999
You mean its ok to crucify the Son of God over and over and over and put Christ to shame?
No. I mean it is not ok.
Not only it is not ok, it is not possible.
It is not necessary and it is not possible and it certainly is not right.
The early Jerusalem Christians being tempted to return to the animal sacrifices of the Law of Moses needed to understand that it was impossible to renew that original repentance. In principle the same exhortation applies to anyone thinking that there is the need to be redeemed all over again as from the beginning of his following Christ, once he has believed into Christ.
Heb 6:6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
The early Jewish disciples who were in Jerusalem receiving this talk should realize that it was a serious thing to try to go back to the temple with its animal sacrices. It was not right. It was not necessary. It was not possible to have their first salvific repentence on these grounds. It was not to be encouraged.
And to attempt to do so was like crucifying the Son of God again for themselves, putting Him to an open shame.
He was the reality of all the shadows of the offerings in Judaism.
So use you brains and interpret it correctly taking ALL that was said by Paul ..
- Christ died for ALL for ALL time
I think you are the one failing to take in all the words of Scripture.
In verse 8 the writer says the vegetation will be burned up. The vegatation stands for the works. They do not stand for the believer himself.
The gound, which we may say is the believer himself, is
"near a curse"
Doesn't say the ground will be cursed does it ? It says the ground that produced thorns, thistles is disapproved and
"NEAR ... a curse"
Now of course it is not good that any believer be
"near a curse" .
And of course it is not good that all of one's Christian works be disapproved and burned up.
But this is not the loss of eternal life. That would be the CURSE.
The bad fruit yielding believer is only
"near a curse" .
This of course agrees perfectly with the many other exhortations that the Christians will be rewarded or possibly disciplined at the beginning of the millennial kingdom.
The passage is therefore NOT about the loss of eternal life.