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NASB | Hebrews 6:6 and then have fallen away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance, since they again crucify to themselves the Son of God and put Him to open shame. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Hebrews 6:6 and then have fallen away--it is impossible to bring them back again to repentance, since they again nail the Son of God on the cross [for as far as they are concerned, they are treating the death of Christ as if they were not saved by it], and are holding Him up again to public disgrace. |
Subject: can you explain hebrews 6; 6 |
Bible Note: Indeed Hebrews Chapter 6 is difficult to the extent that many Christians prefer to avoid it altogether. In general and without any research I always felt that "those" in verse 4 were never really saved in the first place. That was the easy way around it. However, it was an itch that didn't get scratched. For this post I would like to focus on a portion of Hebrews 6:4 and 6:5. And the emphasis is on the word TASTED. "and having tasted, moreover, the heavenly gift, and partners of the Holy Spirit having become:" Now, a portion of verse 5, "and furthermore having tasted as good the utterance of God," From William R. Newell, page 186. "Hebrews Verse by Verse" 1. And tasted of the heavenly gift--Now what heavely gift could be thus spoken of and known without further definition? What indeed but that described in Rom 6:23. "The Gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." BUT OUR LORD'S PROMISE CONCERNING "the gift of God" WAS NOT MADE TO TASTERS, BUT TO DRINKERS; as he said to the Samritan woman. "If thou knewest the gift of God, and Who it is that saith to thee, Give Me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of Him, and He would have given thee living water...Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water springing up unto eternal life. John 4:10, 14. Thus all DRINKERS of the water of life are truly saved. But, you ask, could a person taste of eternal life and yet be lost forever? Certainly! Tasting is not drinking! Drinkers are not mere tasters; there has been a consenting act of the will. They have comitted themselves to what they drink. In tasting, the flavor and effect of the draught is discovered: the will thereupon must decide whether to drink or reject what has been tasted. The drinker commits the water to the man and the man to the water--marvelous picture of saving faith! If it be the water of life, which Jesus gives, he has drunk of it; he has committed himself to it; his whole being is involved;; his whole future is detemined. Thousands today know the taste of the heavenly gift, eternal life, who never did drink that water! Who did not accept, receive, that gift in a saving sense. In this most solemn passage in the sixth of Hebrews, we find men have tasted and rejected--and been rejected by God. At the beginning of Mr. Newell's study he states, "the word once-for-all (Gr hapax), precedes and governs all the participles following: having been ENLIGHTENED, having TASTED, having been MADE PARTAKERS, finally, HAVING TASTED THE UTTERANCE OF GOD TO BE GOOD; These are all aorist participles, referring to an event definitely past; and they are all followed by the frightful words, having FALLEN AWAY! Yours in Christ. Eagle 38 |