I can see why this order of learning was included by God in His Word.. we know what happens when so-called Christians move onto advanced topics after getting rid of the foundational basics.
I believe there's a typo in your third paragraph with your reference to drifting away (did you mean 2:1?).
Yes, pastors should firmly address the issue of LGBTQ+ ideology, even - or especially - in a country that has made opposition to it a crime.
Michael Jordan once quipped that there’s little point in practising fancy maneuvers until you’ve mastered the fundamentals. Who cares if you can occasionally do a slam dunk if you can’t dribble without looking at the ball!
Interesting perspective. I see the omission of the fundamental doctrines in Hebrews as possibly due to the fact that the audience presumably already had access to the materials they needed pertaining to these doctrines, namely the Pauline and Petrine epistles, and perhaps even some of the gospels; and so the author of Hebrews felt no need to spend his precious parchment and quill resources rehashing what they could review for themselves and so carried on to the more advanced doctrine.
Those are definitely possibilities, although I'm uncertain about their plausibility. Even if other NT documents might have been in circulation at the time, it's not clear if this particular congregation had access to them. There's no mention of them in Hebrews. And I'm not sure if a lack of parchment is all that plausible either. It's not mentioned in the letter (but maybe that was to save paper!), and lack of parchment didn't seem to be an issue for longer NT documents. Also, I don't think a lack of parchment would be a problem for Philo. ;)
I'm thinking that the author of Hebrews didn't write about the foundational teachings at length in the letter, because he intended to do so in person (see Heb. 13:19, 23).
I can see why this order of learning was included by God in His Word.. we know what happens when so-called Christians move onto advanced topics after getting rid of the foundational basics.
I believe there's a typo in your third paragraph with your reference to drifting away (did you mean 2:1?).
Yes, pastors should firmly address the issue of LGBTQ+ ideology, even - or especially - in a country that has made opposition to it a crime.
Thanks for reading, Mike. And thanks for catching that typo--just fixed it.
Michael Jordan once quipped that there’s little point in practising fancy maneuvers until you’ve mastered the fundamentals. Who cares if you can occasionally do a slam dunk if you can’t dribble without looking at the ball!
Interesting perspective. I see the omission of the fundamental doctrines in Hebrews as possibly due to the fact that the audience presumably already had access to the materials they needed pertaining to these doctrines, namely the Pauline and Petrine epistles, and perhaps even some of the gospels; and so the author of Hebrews felt no need to spend his precious parchment and quill resources rehashing what they could review for themselves and so carried on to the more advanced doctrine.
Either way, your conclusions are sound.
Thanks for reading, Daniel!
Those are definitely possibilities, although I'm uncertain about their plausibility. Even if other NT documents might have been in circulation at the time, it's not clear if this particular congregation had access to them. There's no mention of them in Hebrews. And I'm not sure if a lack of parchment is all that plausible either. It's not mentioned in the letter (but maybe that was to save paper!), and lack of parchment didn't seem to be an issue for longer NT documents. Also, I don't think a lack of parchment would be a problem for Philo. ;)
I'm thinking that the author of Hebrews didn't write about the foundational teachings at length in the letter, because he intended to do so in person (see Heb. 13:19, 23).