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I want to share the following passage with you from Hebrews 5:12-6:3 (NET)

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Hebrews 5:12-6:3
12 For though you should in fact be teachers by this time, you need someone to teach you the beginning elements of God’s utterances. You have gone back to needing milk, not solid food. 13 For everyone who lives on milk is inexperienced in the message of righteousness, because he is an infant. 14 But solid food is for the mature, whose perceptions are trained by practice to discern both good and evil. 1 Therefore we must progress beyond the elementary instructions about Christ and move on to maturity, not laying this foundation again: repentance from dead works and faith in God, 2 teaching about baptisms, laying on of hands, resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. 3 And this is what we intend to do, if God permits.

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The plight of all mankind - separated from God because of sin.

The answer to man's plight - Jesus Christ - the only Way to God

The substitutionary atonement of Jesus Christ in His self-offering on the cross

The physical resurrection of Jesus Christ and bodily ascension to the right hand of God the Father.

The promise of the physical resurrection of all people - some to eternal life, others to eternal hell.

Salvation comes by God's grace solely through the means of faith in Christ alone and this is the gift of God.

The physical return of Christ.

While Christians should agree on these essential doctrines there are numerous "secondary" issues and interpretations for which we can hold different views. While we understand that there is truly only one right answer to the issues on which we differ, we acknowledge that differences of opinion legitimately arise because:

1. Scripture was written in a historical/social context very different from our own.
2. Although Scripture has been preserved for us and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness (2 Tim. 3:16), it was not written directly to us.
3. Scripture is silent on many matters, providing us high level principles to guide our actions but silent in many specific do's and don't's.
4. Scripture is filled with paradoxes we simply cannot explain. Explanations where Scripture is silent is human opinion and leads to different viewpoints.
5. Many beliefs within evangelical theology are the product of deductive reasoning rather than inductive reading.
6. Many "debatable" beliefs, traditions, or dogma within evangelical theology result from pulling verses out of context to support human tradition (proof-texting).

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