REPENTANCE FROM DEAD WORKS
Foundation Principles Series - Part I “Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. And this will we do, if God permit” (Hebrews 6:1-3) . In the beginning of chapter 6 of the Apostle Paul’s letter to the Hebrews, we find what Paul refers to as “the principles of the doctrine of Christ,” and, in chapter 5:12, he calls them, “the first principles of the oracles of God.” He makes it pretty clear by what he says at the end of chapter 5 that, until we can understand this “milk of the word,” we will find it difficult to advance to deeper truths, or “strong meat.” So, in an effort to do just that, and to better understand these foundational truths, I would like to explore them one at a time and publish them