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Originally Posted by Jeffrey
What a beautiful chapter if I may add as well.
The writer's argument about how Jesus has become our High Priest. Jesus relates with us vv1-3, he is our Eternal highpriest vv. 4-6, and then the writer gets more to the point, using Jesus' relationship to the Father as an example of our relationship to him. "Though he was God's son, he learned trusting obedience by what he suffered, just as we do. Then having arrived at the full stature of maturity and having been announced by God as high priest he became the source of salvation for all who (believingly) obey him."
The point of this passage is not "how to be saved" but rather "Jesus understands weakness, temptation, testing and sin. So grow up! Be mature! This is a conversation from the end of Chapter 4 which continues through Chapter 6. His audience are those who have believed and are living like unbelievers. Paul says they have "re-crucified Jesus" in a sense.
Chapter 6 softens the rebuke from Paul in a reassurance of their salvation in Christ. God keeps his word and his promise.
All that to say, TL, I don't think proof-texts like this are the best way to "prove" baptismal regeneration.
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what in the world did I say about baptism regeneration. Plain texts tell you how that relates. As I have said before your view is skewed from start to end when you make baptism a "work" of "ours" to obtain covenant as your positions smell gives havoc to everything you believe in relation to the word of God.
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