“There is much more we would like to say about this, but it is difficult to explain, especially since you are spiritually dull and don’t seem to listen. You have been believers so long now that you ought to be teaching others. Instead, you need someone to teach you again the basic things about God’s word. You are like babies who need milk and cannot eat solid food. For someone who lives on milk is still an infant and doesn’t know how to do what is right. Solid food is for those who are mature, who through training have the skill to recognize the difference between right and wrong.”
Hebrews 5:11-14 NLT
As we read through this passage of Hebrews, we should become immediately aware that its author believes the subject matter of Christology to be an obvious truth. He is taking the time to explain why we should view Jesus above the law of Moses and the revelation of angels because it is a truth that is missing from the christology of the early church, but it is a truth which should be there. To this end, he calls his readers spiritually dull and infantile. What should be of interest to us is how this truth and its facets still appears to be a relatively high brow concept in Christianity today. To have a strong Christology, in modernity, is to have a base level one, by the judgment of the author of Hebrews. Too many Christians have no understanding of why Jesus should be seen as supreme, other than the trump card title of being our savior. But even that title is not understood. He is not seen as propitiation for sin, above the angels, student of obedience, or sometimes, even a historically real person. The author calls for us to be beyond these conversations. We ought to use his book to be able to rectify our dull theology into a fully orbed one. This will allow us to fully love God with all of our being. Weak theology ought to be called to task. Strong theology should replace it as milk for all young believers.
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