Life Blog

Heb 6:1-3 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, (2) Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. (3) And this will we do, if God permit. The phrase "leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ" does not mean to set aside, or to leave it and have nothing to do with it. No, the Scripture doesn't mean it that way. What it is saying is that we should move on forward from there. Indeed we would be making no progress if all we did was to repeatedly lay down the foundations and not build above it. But we must not neglect the foundations. Rather we must establish them firmly. And indeed we will not be able to move forward until we are fully established into them. As the Scripture in 2John points out: 2Jn 1:9 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doct...