Elementary Teachings About Christ

By Glad Ifeyinwa Omeje

Souls like babies are precious in the sight of God. They need and deserve the best of care one of which is good nutrition. Their food must be full of the best nutrients and in the right constitution/ form to enable them digest it well and be able to extract the nutrients for proper growth and development. The Scriptures declare, There is great joy in heaven over one sinner that repents. In the Elementary Teachings, the milk for the new believer by the grace of God is thoroughly constituted, such that the believer who takes time to study these will develop a solid foundation in the faith.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: May 7, 2010
• ISBN: 9781450096485

Glad Ifeyinwa Omeje

Omeje, Herbert Chukwuka is a Nigerian by birth and a medical doctor by training. Dr Herbert’s spiritual knowledge is greatly enriched through meditation while waiting upon the Lord and following two decades of missionary work in prisons in South eastern Nigeria. He currently resides with his family in Texas, United States.

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Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION.

Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.

Other Scriptures quotations are taken from the King James Version [KJV]

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Contents

Dedication

Prologue: My Heart

Preface

Chapter One: Repentance from Dead Works

Chapter Two: Faith toward God

Chapter Three: Doctrine of baptisms

Chapter Four: Laying on of Hands

Chapter Five: Resurrection of the Dead

Chapter Six: Eternal Judgment

Dedication

To the Holy Spirit;

Who made me see beyond the letters of the word

To my husband Herbert;

Who encouraged me to persevere and complete this work

To Ifunanya [nee Ezerioha], who said to me while I wrote

‘Make sure you let us know when the book is published’

Your words encouraged me.

And to all my younger brothers and sisters in Christ,

May you grow strong to be able to feed on Strong meat and bones.

Glad

Prologue

My Heart

There in that garden of despair

You came into my heart like a rich pink rose

You illuminated me

Then in that forlorn desert, drank I from your oasis

The rich cup of your graceful heart,

The grace cup for solitude; goodbye to filth

So Glad I received you,

My H, my Heart, My husband

Your rose remains in my heart.

—A tribute to my husband and my Lord

Glad

Preface

Heb 5:11-6:1

11    Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.

12    For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.

13    For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.

14    But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. KJV

The above passage was written to people who had known Christ for some time. They had been taught the ‘first principles of the oracles of God’ but then they needed to be taught these again. They could not make progress in their faith because they did not have a good grasp of the first principles [elementary teachings]. In any body of knowledge, there are usually first principles without which one cannot advance in it. In Mathematics for example, the numbers are first taught. When one has learnt these very well then the various signs of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division are taught. It is upon these basic principles among others that Mathematics is built. There is no way one can learn to solve fractions without the above foundation. Another illustration is the fact that one has to pass through the primary or elementary school before secondary school and so on.

The word of God also has first principles. These are the elementary doctrines of Christ. These must be the first lessons of the newborn child of God. He must grasp these else his faith will continue to have fault till he dies. ‘If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?’