Hebrews 5 ends with:
Although you should be teachers by this time, you need to have someone teach you again the basic elements of the utterances of God. You need milk, (and) not solid food. Everyone who lives on milk lacks experience of the word of righteousness, for he is a child. But solid food is for the mature, for those whose faculties are trained by practice to discern good and evil.
Hebrews 6 starts with:
Therefore, let us leave behind the basic teaching about Christ and advance to maturity, without laying the foundation all over again.
The audience to whom Paul was writing was not growing spiritually. He is giving them an admonition to grow up spiritually.
With love in Christ.
2006-10-20 11:43:42
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answered by imacatholic2 7
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Hebrews 6:1 Therefore let us leave the elementary teachings about Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from acts that lead to death, and of faith in God,
We need to grow in our faith.
2006-10-19 07:14:10
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answered by cnm 4
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Paul (who is assumed to have written the epsitle) was changing the mood. It was a transition from talking about immaturity of believers to then talk about how to mature as a believer. A way to paraphrase it could be this: "We have covered to basics: Christ died for our sins. We must now move on to how that should affect our lives. Belief is where it starts, but now we must move on to be taught how a believer should BE, not just what a believer should BELIEVE."
2006-10-19 07:18:14
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answered by Andy VK from Houston 2
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