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From: "H Dorrington" <hjdinfl@...>
>  Oh yes, the passage that tell us that the goats make great teachers! Not. 
> It is rather describing those who are spiritual "babes" in Christ .

I disagree.  In giving them the benefit of the doubt, he is still holding 
out the possibility that they are in danger of neglecting their salvation. 
What looks like a babe in Christ, if it never grows, is an imposter (Heb. 
6:6-8 - same thought, same context).  If they stay "dull of hearing" will 
"end up being burned" (Heb. 6:8).

The contrasts of the warning passages are almost exclusively, through the 
whole of the NT, between sheep and goats and almost never between categories 
of Christians.  Those "categories" just don't exist.

Pastor Chad Richard Bresson
Clearcreek Chapel
Springboro, OH
http://breusswane.blogspot.com