Papists have never had a reputation for excelling in hermeneutics - which is why Martin Luther kicked Johann Eck's butt all the way back to the Vatican. Thank you for continuing the tradition. Paul's words
contextually have to do with CEREMONIAL SABBATHS, which you can read about in Leviticus 23, if you'd bother to read anything except your silly catechisms and papal apologist propaganda. Anyone reading Paul's words to the Colossians with their eyes open can see that passage has to do with the things which:
- Moses wrote on paper (try hammering a nail through Tables of Stone and see what that gets you)
- had to do with ceremonies (of which the weekly Sabbath was in no way a part)
- were shadows (which the weekly Sabbath was never - it was created before sin when all was light)
- were laws against the people (Moses specifically says the law he wrote on paper was against them, not what God Himself wrote with His own finger on two Tables of Stone)
"A text without a context is a pretext." And a papist who protects a rapist is an obstructionist.
Why? Does the Iron Chef really need to concern himself when his challenger is a blind papist who doesn't know good Bread from bad?
Sorry. I forgot how sensitive you papists are about your rituals that so closely resemble those of lewd and lascivious pagan, sex-cult religions.
Yes, the union of the "male generative principle" wafer and the "female generative principle" monstrance takes place after the mass has ended. My mistake.
Pretty sure I soundly debunked your Colossians 2:16-17 "proof" text just a bit higher in this very post, if you care to check.