It's apparent, Dan, from the follow on verses (Hebrews 6:1-3) that he expects that they remember the foundation - the basic principles and that he's going to press on with them through some more adult concepts. He's certainly not content to leave them in immaturity here but it simply struck me what the nature of his audience is here.

It also struck me what an indictment it is upon Christendom that we have a Church full of men and women who this passage openly rebukes. They're content to be babes. We would be quite alarmed if a grown man was still only able to read a basic primer or had to be told what to do, where to sit, when to brush his teeth, etc. Yet, spiritually, that's the condition of most Christians who been in the Church long enough to be teachers.

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Rich
Okinawa, Japan

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