"And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal? Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase."
Today's quote relates how the hearing stage of the gospel is a vulnerable time for those who might believe. It is a time when new converts who don't yet fully understand can easily be led astray by their own misguided ideas or the smooth tongues of those who teach heretical doctrines.
Referring to their still carnal nature, Paul referred to those new disciples as "babes in Christ" and assured them that they had not yet fully understood the true gospel of Jesus Christ. He said, in essence, that it takes time and and much study to fully understand all of God's plan to usward.
Sadly there are still thousands upon thousands of would be Christians who are more devoted to the words of some preacher than they are to the gospel of Jesus Christ. That spiritual laziness allows for all manner of heresy to be taught to, and practiced by, the otherwise innocent.~
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