Hebrews 6 : 6 talks about someone who has experienced the intense goodness of salvation and then falls out of grace again, being definitely doomed.
So there are some people who are just not meant for Christianity ever.
Hebrew then would continue on saying something I found to be questionable, but before that I'm going to address this first, if that were the case, that some people are just not meant for Christianity, than I don't think it is as bad as it sounds. For one the Christians wouldn't like it if they were to be counted as one of the Christians when they were not, and then they wouldn't like it themselves because they themselves rejected the Christian life. So it is actually a win win.
Looking deeper at what the writer was saying, one prove that you're not one of those people is : you contributed to the cause. Yes, to keep it simple stupid or stupid simple, you give goods and services or money to the cause then you're not one of those people (a lot of people wouldn't agree with me or like the way I say it). Now, is this one of those things that pastors said to scare their congregations into donating money? I don't know, but I find it reasonable to put it like that. Why is it that in businessess it is ok to not deal with people who wouldn't appreciate you with money while in the church not? Money is an acknowledgement anyway, if you really appreciates Christianity then money is a clear proof that you do, although it shouldn't be the only thing that defines your Christianity. So the act of contributing, is one of the indication that you are not crucifying Jesus the second time.
Now why is that the case? I think it comes down to the meaning of the crucifixion, it is that the crucified is worthless, to be disposed of, to be disregarded, discarded. Why would a person contributes to something he/she couldn't appreciate? Here we see the meaning of fruit in Christianity, because the book of Hebrew illustrates these people as a field that received rain but grew thorns and thistle instead of crops, they produced the insult after being fed with the grace of God. Fruit is positive contribution for the kingdom of God.
Again and again the bible talks about discernment through results rather than facade. My question is, what if these people one day changed their mind and started contributing to the cause of God then? Healing people, enriching people positively, consoling people. By then I wouldn't be able to tell the difference. Should it be considered that they weren't adults (as in Hebrew 6) when they dismissed Christianity? Or should Christianity be defined differently, those that do the work of the kingdom are Christians (Godlike) whether or not they were church people? In turn it means that church people who weren't doing the work of the kingdom were not really Godlike. I like the way it sounds but I think there must be more to it, much more to it.
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Works are indicator not cause (of salvation). But give people the benefit of the doubt, that is a nice thing.
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