So don’t let anyone condemn you for what you eat or drink, or for not celebrating certain holy days or new moon ceremonies or Sabbaths. For these rules are only shadows of the reality yet to come.
And Christ HIMSELF is that reality.
Don’t let anyone condemn you by insisting on pious self-denial or the worship of angels, saying they have had visions about these things. Their sinful minds have made them proud, and they are not connected to Christ, the head of the body. For he holds the whole body together with its joints and ligaments, and it grows as God nourishes it.
You have died with Christ, and he has set you free from the spiritual powers of this world. So why do you keep on following the rules of the world, such as, “Don’t handle! Don’t taste! Don’t touch!”?
Such rules are mere human teachings about things that deteriorate as we use them. These rules may seem wise because they require strong devotion, pious self-denial, and severe bodily discipline. But they provide no help in conquering a person’s evil desires.~
St Paul to the Colossians 16:23
It’s not a matter of anyone condemning me. It’s a matter of people lying about what God says, and the proof of that in failed promises.
God didn’t deliver me from the law of sin and death when I “accepted Christ as my personal savior.” He did it when I ate Christ’s flesh, and drank his blood in a worthy manner.
Some may call righteousness a “work,” but that doesn’t mean God agrees.