60% of christians are babies in Christ. as such everything is about me. can you pray for me, can you encourage me, and ect... then you have 30% are childhood level. where you are unsteady, unreliable, impressionable, and spasmodic. always poking their nose in other peoples business, never learn the value of silence, and ect... the rest are mature christians(disciples in Christ). ability to see God at work, conscious of the presence of God, can hear God speaking, and ect...
we should be feeding milk and not meat. many here are not ready to hear the deep things of God. we all want to know the deep things but if we can't understand the basics then how will you understand it when it gets more complex?
Don't know if I agree with those same percentages, but I definitely agree with that concept. Goes along with how many would be deceived by paganism through doctrines of men instead of staying in God's Word as written.
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"1 Tim 1:4
Fables-incipient Gnostic legends about the origin and propagation of angels, as at Colosse (Col 2:18-23). Rather, "Jewish fables" (Titus 1:14). "Profane and old wives' fables" (1 Tim 4:7; 2 Tim 4:4).
Genealogies.
Not merely genealogies common among the Jews, tracing their descent from the patriarchs, which Paul would not class with "fables," but Gnostic genealogies of spirits and aeons, or emanations (Alford). So Tertullian, 'Adversus Valentinianos,' ch. iii., and Irenaeus, 'Praef.'
The Judaizers here, while maintaining the obligation of the Mosaic law, joined with it
a theosophic ascetic tendency, pretending to see in it mysteries deeper than others. The seeds, not the full-grown Gnosticism of the post apostolic age, then existed. This formed the transition between Judaism and Gnosticism. "Endless" implies their tedious unprofitableness (cf. Titus 3:9). Scripture opposes to their 'aeons' the 'King of the aeons (so Greek, 1 Tim 1:17), to whom be glory throughout the aeons of aeons.' The word 'aeons' was possibly not used in the technical Gnostic sense as yet; but "the only wise God" (1 Tim 1:17), by anticipation, confutes subsequent notions in the Gnostics' own phraseology.
(from Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Commentary, Electronic Database. Copyright (c) 1997 by Biblesoft)"
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In the 1st and 2nd century A.D. when Christianity was still young, the seeds of Gnosticism tried to push Greek pagan philosophy into Christian Doctrine. That was one of the MAJOR battles the early Church fought in the 1st, 2nd and later centuries A.D. It's those things Apostle Paul was warning Timothy about, for Paul once having been a Pharisee, he well knew of those Jewish teachings from the corruptions of the Jews when captive in Babylon. It's a lot of what the Babylonian Talmud and Jewish Kabbalah is about. Some of the early Church fathers specifically wrote against the heresies of Gnosticism and its attempt to creep into Christ's Church.
It's pretty obvious the "babes" here know little or nothing about the attempts of Gnostic pagan doctrine to infiltrate early Christianity, the seeds of it existing even among the false Jews that Apostle Paul contended with that were within Christ's Body in his day.
In Alexandria, Egypt, there was a Christian type seminary there which is where the Alexandrian NT manuscripts origiated that were used for the New International Version. A problem they had was with ideas of old mystical thought from ancient paganism. They had a problem with understanding the simplicity of Scripture, and instead reverted to systems of mysticism applied to Bible Scripture, which instead did nothing but cloud... God's Truth, which was a common trait of the pagan priest cast systems in ancient Egypt, Babylon, Assyria, Greece, Rome, etc. That's actually the subject Apostle Paul was talking about, not the genealogies within God's Word which our Heavenly Father Himself caused to be written by The Holy Spirit.
