Hebrews 6:2

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Hebrews 6:2

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Hebrews 6:2

Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

The doctrine

Laying

Resurrection

Eternal

Bible References

The doctrine

the whole system being concerned only with food and drink and various ablutions--external ceremonials imposed until the coming of the New Order.

When they come from market, they will not eat without first sprinkling themselves; and there are many other customs which they have inherited and hold to, such as the ceremonial washing of cups, and jugs, and copper pans).

The Pharisee noticed, to his astonishment, that Jesus omitted the ceremonial washing before breakfast.

Are we right in paying tribute to the Emperor or not?"

He who believes and is baptized shall be saved; but he who refuses to believe will be condemned.

John, addressing them all, said: "I, indeed, baptize you with water; but there is coming one more powerful than I, and I am not fit even to unfasten his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.

There is a baptism that I must undergo, and how great is my distress until it is over!

I myself did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water, he said to me 'He upon whom you see the Spirit descending, and remaining upon him--he it is who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.'

Now a discussion arose between some of John's disciples and a Jew on the subject of 'purification;'

Now, when the Master heard that the Pharisees had been told that he was making and baptizing more disciples than John

"Repent," answered Peter, "and be baptized every one of you in the Faith of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and then you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

However, when they came to believe Philip, as he told them the Good News about the Kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.

"Can any one refuse the water for the baptism of these people, now that they have received the Holy Spirit as we did ourselves?"

And, when she and her household had been baptized, she urged us to become her guests. "Since you have shown your conviction," she said, "that I really am a believer in the Lord, come and stay in my house." And she insisted on our doing so.

"Did you, when you became believers in Christ, receive the Holy Spirit?" "No," they answered, "we did not even hear that there was a Holy Spirit."

Or can it be that you do not know that all of us, who were baptized into union with Christ Jesus, in our baptism shared his death?

I mean this, that every one of you says either 'I follow Paul,' or 'I Apollos,' or 'I Kephas,' or 'I Christ.'

That in the cloud and in the sea they all underwent baptism as followers of Moses;

For it was by one Spirit that we were all baptized to form one Body, whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free men, and were all imbued with one Spirit.

For in baptism you were buried with Christ; and in baptism you were also raised to Life with him, through your faith in the omnipotence of God, who raised him from the dead.

who once were disobedient, at the time when God patiently waited, in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared; in which some few lives, eight in all, were saved by means of water.

Laying

And they brought these men to the Apostles, who, after praying, placed their hands on them.

When the Apostles at Jerusalem heard that the Samaritans had welcomed God's Message, they sent Peter and John to them;

Accordingly, after fasting and prayer, they placed their hands on them and dismissed them.

And, after Paul had placed his hands on them, the Holy Spirit descended upon them, and they began to speak with 'tongues' and to preach.

Resurrection

Women received back their dead raised to life. Some were tortured on the wheel, and refused release in order that they might rise to a better life.

That same day some Sadducees came up to Jesus, maintaining that there is no resurrection. Their question was this:--

And then you will be happy indeed, since they cannot recompense you; for you shall be recompensed at the resurrection of the good."

And will come out--those who have done good rising to Life, and those who have lived evil lives rising for condemnation.

"I know that he will," replied Martha, "in the resurrection at the Last Day."

Much annoyed because they were teaching the people, and because, through Jesus, they were preaching the resurrection from the dead.

Among others, some Epicurean and Stoic Philosophers joined issue with him. Some would ask "What is this prater wanting to make out?", while others would say "He seems to be a Preacher of foreign Deities." (This was because he was telling the Good News about Jesus and the Resurrection).

Noticing that some of those present were Sadducees and others Pharisees, Paul called out in the Council: "Brothers, I am a Pharisee and a son of Pharisees. It is on the question of hope for the dead and of their resurrection that I am on my trial."

And I have a hope that rests in God--a hope which they also cherish--that there will one day be a resurrection of good and bad alike.

Why do you all hold it incredible that God should raise the dead?

If we have become united with him by the act symbolic of his death, surely we shall also become united with him by the act symbolic of his resurrection.

But, if there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead, then even Christ has not been raised;

Who, by the exercise of his power to bring everything into subjection to himself, will make this body that we have in our humiliation like to that body which he has in his Glory.

For, as we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also we believe that God will bring, with Jesus, those who through him have passed to their rest.

They have gone completely astray as regards the Truth; they say that a resurrection has already taken place, and so upset some people's faith.

Eternal

When the Son of Man has come in his glory and all the angels with him, then he 'will take his seat on his throne of glory';

Because he has fixed a day on which he intends to 'judge the world with justice,' by a man whom he has appointed--and of this he has given all men a pledge by raising this man from the dead."

But, while Paul was speaking at length about righteousness, self-control, and the coming judgment, Felix became terrified, and interrupted him--"Go for the present, but, when I find an opportunity, I will send for you again."

Hard-hearted and impenitent as you are, you are storing up for yourself Wrath on the 'Day of Wrath,' when God's justice as a judge will be revealed;

For at the Bar of the Christ we must all appear in our true characters, that each may reap the results of the life which he has lived in the body, in accordance with his actions--whether good or worthless.

But the present heavens and earth, by the same fiat, have been reserved for fire, and are being kept for the day of the judgment and destruction of the godless.

To these men, as to others, Enoch, the seventh in descent from Adam, declared-- 'See! the Lord has come with his hosts of holy ones around him,

and the Devil, their deceiver, was hurled into the lake of fire and sulphur, where the Beast and the false Prophet already were, and they will be tortured day and night for ever and ever.