Milk only, as in how many continue to understand salvation?

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posthuman

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posthuman said:
so what this little comment in Hebrews 6 is telling us, is that figuring out how Genesis 14 is a picture of Salvation is meat - what is the allegory; Melchizedek is as God, the type of Christ ((if not Christ Himself!)) - who is Lot? who is Abraham? who is the king of Sodom? the other kings? what do these things represent and teach us about our Lord?
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if i could hijack the thread, i'd rather be trying to figure Genesis 14 out than having the whole once-saved-maybe-not-saved-for-long conversation again. :p but it needs to be settled that we have absolute faith in God and what He has done to save us before we can see the truth of that played out in the law.

Sodom is like the wicked world, and the king of her a type of Satan/Antichrist. he tries to corrupt Abraham ((a type of who?)) after Abraham saves them all for the sake of his kinsman. he wants to make Abraham rich with Sodomite wealth - but Abraham's only concern is for the people - not the material. God gives Abraham this victory - just a few servants against so many kings of the world! and then God shows up in the figure of the King-Priest of Salem, which means peace, which is Jah-ru-shalom, Yah provides peace. He brings bread and wine, body and blood. they all eat together - like the last supper, antichrist & Christ and Abraham at the table.

what else is here? what is it telling us about salvation? this isn't even scratching the surface; what did the author of Hebrews want to say about it? many things! hard to explain! it's rich and full of calories and protein :)
we only need teeth, and to learn to chew :D
 
Lookupnotback

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luigi said:
In Isaiah 28:9, the Lord asks whom shall He make to understand doctrine, to which He replies in the following verse 28:10, and confirms again in 28:13: those who are weaned from milk and drawn from the breast; to whom the Word is precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little. What the Lord informs us here is that the Judeans did not want to progress any further than their basic understanding of what the Lord informs them in His Word.
I find this same resistance to the full understanding of the Word with the OSAS group, who want only to understand Salvation in its most basic form, while rejecting the meat of salvation. Rather than making this another discussion on Salvation, I hope we can just acknowledge that there are other verses in the Word about salvation being more than its basic concept. Those who will not acknowledge this most obvious fact, will then in effect just continue to intake milk only.


Isaiah 28:9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. 10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

Isaiah 28:13 But the word of the Lord was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
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On yah, that’s for sure....like the children of the continuist cornfield chasing emotionalism’s wonders in fireworks, i hear you. It is a lack of depth of character they seem to seek after.
 
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Lookupnotback said:
On yah, that’s for sure....like the children of the continuist cornfield chasing emotionalism’s wonders in fireworks, i hear you. It is a lack of depth of character they seem to seek after.
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Yes! In other words, they like the easy stuff. Same here on this forum where many just choose the easy and reject what is hard.
And according to what is being inferred in Isaiah 28:10 & 13; it is only those who are already beyond the basics who the Lord deems worthy to instruct with knowledge and the understanding of doctrine.
 
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Nehemiah6 said:
Correct. Melchizedek was a Christophany in that Christ appeared to Abraham as the mysterious King Melchizedek (King of Righteousness and King of Peace). And Abraham offered tithes to Him, while Christ offered him bread and wine (a pre-indication of the Lord's Supper and the New Covenant). So there is a lot of meat in the High Priesthood of Christ after the order of Melchizedek, which replaces the Levitical Priesthood.

The Bible says that Abraham looked for a city (the New Jerusalem) whose Builder and Maker is God. But we are not told when he received this vision. It could have been when he met Melchizedek, who was king of Jerusalem.
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@posthuman also...

It could have been right here...

Genesis 22:4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted his eyes and saw the place afar off.
 
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