Can there be true assurance of salvation? Or, is it possible for a true believer to fall away . . . to apostatize . . . to be saved, and then to loose his salvation? Or what is it for one to persevere to the end? Was this dullness of hearing the unfixable, uncorrectable, road or way to hell and damnation? Were all of these Hebrew readers in the same boat headed away from the Lord Jesus Christ and to eternity with Satan in their estate of immaturity and dullness of hearing? Does this passage teach of genuine, born again Christians, walking away from God, and denying their faith, eternally? Does this passage teach that there is no possibility of assurance of salvation?
To answer these questions, This passage, Hebrews 6:4-8, must be read in its context. It is pastoral in nature. The writer is concerned for the hearts of these who have become dull of hearing, and longs that they would pay much closer attention to the words of Christ. And, he is making their hearts ready to receive that which he is about to give them: solid food such that they can press on to maturity. |