13 For everyone who lives on milk is [doctrinally inexperienced and] unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a spiritual infant. 14 But solid food is for the [spiritually] mature, whose senses are trained by practice to distinguish between what is morally good and what is evil.
These verses I read right before I started to Blog and thought to myself what does this mean? Then it got me to think of the question, once we have solid food are we always going to be on solid food, or do we sometimes need the milk still? These verses above are talking about new believers verse seasoned believers. The people who are new to the faith and have not heard the word in whole yet. they do not know the word since they are new. Think of it this way when you become a doctor you are not a doctor right away you have to put in the work and steps to be a doctor. It is the same in the faith, you need to put in the work and the steps to be able to handle the food instead of just the milk.
To have the spiritual food that the verse is talking about we need to be trained in ways to tell the difference between good and evil. it talks about this in verse 20 chapter 14 of 1 Corinthians 20 Brothers and sisters, do not be children [immature, childlike] in your thinking; be infants in [matters of] evil [completely innocent and inexperienced], but in your minds be mature [adults]. When it comes to evil as the verse says we are to be like infants but when it comes to our minds, we are to be adults. This verse is saying that we are not to be smart in the ways of evil, know all there is about evil, or practice evil but we are to know of evil just like an infant know of his toes. But we are to be mature in our minds so that when evil comes, we will know it and not follow down that road and be led father away from Jesu and Glorifying Him. We are to have adult minds so we can know the difference between good and evil. another verse that drives this point home is Romans 16:19 19 For the report of your obedience has reached everyone, so that I rejoice over you, but I want you to be wise in what is good and innocent in what is evil.
Just like babies they have to start on milk because they are not fully developed to eat solid food and could choke because they are not ready for solid food. The same is for us that we are to start off with milk and then move on to food. Put in spiritual terms we are to hear the word that is the milk and then move on to keeping the word so we will know the difference that is the food. When you become a Christian do you know all that is good and evil? No, you do not you have to learn all of that. Like I said you have to go through the steps and learn all that kind of stuff it doesn't just come to you. It is like a baby you grow into an adult you do not start off as an adult you have to grow into one. Just like what we are talking about we start off as new believers and then move on to seasoned Christians.
As to the second question I posed today, I will answer that question tomorrow best I can. I may stay on this question tomorrow I do not know it is whatever God leads me to do.
All Bible verses taken from the AMP
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