Colossians 2:16 (NKJV)
[sup]16 [/sup]So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths,
Ok Lord, I won't.
That verse is so often misunderstood and we must remember what is written in 2 Peter.....
2 Peter 3:15-17 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction. Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
As you can see...it is vital to understand the writings of God through Paul, even if they are "hard to be understood." A key verse is the one you quoted....
Colossians 2:16-17 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
As the day of the sabbath was chosen by God, as are the Holy days, as are what we are to eat and drink....for they are shadows of "things to come," then they are to be heeded! Instead, we follow days chosen by man. We worship on Sunday instead of the Sabbath. We celebrate easter instead of observing Passover, we eat anything we want (again misunderstanding one of Paul's teachings). So, what the above verse says to me is....
If you are of the body of Christ then follow MY instructions and don't allow others to judge you as you do.
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You know it hits me Eccl's purpose... To condemn others (Via OT laws), while making nothing applicable to himself (As we see demonstrated by his evasion of the "you must put to death" commands).
I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law.
Philippians 3:3 For
we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
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