or of our danger outside of Christ? Yet, they base their eternal welfare upon experiences that move them. Of those who have so tasted, the writer says solemnly, “if they then fall away, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God, to their own harm, and holding him up to contempt … it is impossible to restore … [them] again to repentance” (Heb. 6:6, 4). Holding Christ in contempt! Guthrie notes, “In no more vivid way could the position of the apostatizers be identified with those whose hatred