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1 | impossible to renew repentance | Heb 6:6 | balemian2004 | 163967 | ||
this verse dealing with the falling away is tricky because of the word "to renew". The greek uses two words to signify newness. the word "kainos", which is a qualitative newness. And the word, "neos", which is a quantitative newness, as for example in a number series. The signifcation in this verse seems to me to be that if a believer should fall away from the grace of Christ, he/she would need a salvation that is qualitatively different, since Christ's sacrifice would be cancelled and rendered insufficient. And to go back to the animal sacrifices would avail nothing anyway. Therefore leaving no more sacrifice for sins. Which would be "impossible". This would only make sense when putting it in it's historical context. The book of Hebrews was written some years before the destruction of the temple in 70 A.D. when animal sacrifices were still being practiced, and some of the Hebrew Christians were tempted to revert back to ceremonialism. The writer is encouraging these believers to Faith, seeing that the temple would be destroyed, there would be no more sacrifices for sin, through the killing of animals in addition to needing a salvation that is qualitatively different from the one Jesus provided through his death. Also the word "impossible" in the greek comes from the compound word "adunatos"- the "a" which signifies negation and "dunatos" which is coming from the word dunamis, meaning ability, enablement. If this is the case, than that means if someone were to fall away from the grace of Christ, only to renew repentance (of a different plan of salvation, that is) it would be impossible, or better still there is no ability or enablement, for another way of salvation, then we are saying that Jesus died for nothing and that his sacrifice was not perfect. But as the first 5 chapters opens up, that Jesus is superior to MOses , the angels, the priesthood, only to come to chapter 6 and say that he died for nothing? That would be self-contradicting. |
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