Hebrew 10:26-31Essay Preview: Hebrew 10:26-31Report this essayWhen people knowingly reject Christs offer of salvation, they reject Gods most precious gift. They ignore the leading of the Holy Spirit, the one who communicates to us Gods saving love. This warning was given to Jewish Christians who were tempted to reject Christ for Judaism, but it applies to anyone and everyone who rejects Christ for another religion or deliberately turns away from God’s word.
The point is that there is no other acceptable sacrifice for sin than the death of Christ on the cross. If someone intentionally rejects the sacrifice of Christ after clearly understanding what the gospel teaches about it, then there is no way for that person to be saved, because God has not provided any other name under heaven by which we can be saved.
We must understand what the author is doing. He did not pull out a hammer to pound the struggling, suffering believers under persecution, but he has raised a red flag and sounded the alarm for those few among them who had grown arrogant toward the gospel and complacent toward the church. It was not the weak that tripped along that were in danger, but those who with intent, in calculated fashion, stood against the gospel after having once professed to be Christians. They claimed to be Christians but rejected the sufficiency of Christ. The writer pleads the last warning for them to repent before their hearts were hardened beyond remedy and they were exposed, in the words of Peter, as a dog returns to its own vomit and a sow after washing returns to wallow in the mire (II Pet. 2:22).
The pastor of the Baptist church in Texas who was a friend of the Christian church, says, “They are now being denounced everywhere and it’s because of him. Because of a simple fact of the Scripture that the unbelieving are first judged and then condemned. They are the next to that. And if they are saved, then their lives will be saved. They will be freed from this bondage. They live to repent for the good they have done and the law is set that they can do it again.” The “theologically minded” minister, Dr. George W. Bush, says the same thing in response to a question this: “You are saying that the church and the ministry of the Bible are a complete fraud of a moral and historical nature? What they do is absolutely correct. And I feel that the Bible is a complete fraud of a moral and historical nature for any reason at all (I was in fact in one of those “proper” days, and it’s been very, very thorough). And that is why I say that, when you have one of these leaders, whether they be in the Baptist church or not, who claims to be a Christian, that there is no better way to go about it than what we are doing. But if Christianity, the only religion at once Christian, is true to what it claims to be, you don’t believe that the Bible is false. Not a single claim about the Bible has yet been published.”
There is nothing in the scriptures, or on the internet that justifies the doctrine of non-Christians being persecuted by fundamentalist Christians. They simply want their right to worship their God over God’s people. The leaders of the church are not only not going to tell them what to believe, they are already being persecuted. A few days ago Mark Wannberg, the pastor in the Baptist Church of Texas, came forward and reported:
The pastors of church-owned businesses in Texas are being threatened with criminal prosecution. Last week, an angry mob ripped into a church in southeast Texas after refusing to allow one of its staff members to speak on its website to discuss the case with his bosses, the county sheriff, and to explain how the organization to which the employee owes $5,800 in public and private security bonds had gone after him because of his private identity documents. In a statement, the church said its mission is to make “peaceful calls of faith on behalf of the individual family and the country to provide services at a time when public health and safety is failing communities and families (God’s).” The statement followed a public statement by Wannberg, who said: “We are being targeted to take our livelihood and property, our own and those of our loved one, and to punish and punish anyone who disagrees with that by getting into our private business. Our mission, though unique in that it deals with a variety of issues, has been successful in making those requests. We have done our work, and do it very well. We want to use those resources as a catalyst and a tool of accountability. We have