Acutally, I have. I've done a word-by-word study on the book of Romans from start to finish.
Romans is explicit on the purpose of the law (which contains your Jewish holy days): "We have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so thatwe serve, in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of the letter." (Romans 7:6). The old laws no longer are a sword suspended over the neck of the Christian, but are done away with. In ancient Greek culture, the child, once he reaches the age of majority, does not revert back to his pedagogue (The NASB renders this Greek word "tutor" in Gal 3:24).
The holy days had their fulfillment in Christ -- their purpose was to be a kind of divine advertisement of what was to come. For instance, the Day of Atonement siginified the future propitiatory death of Christ. Once Christ's propitiatory death has come, what need have we for the feast day? That's sort of like downloading the trailer of a movie you have the DVD for -- completely superfluous.
Is there a conservative forum that is not dominated by Bush-bots and fundamentalist Christians?
If so, please direct me there.
No doubt they were shadows of what is to come and memorial of what has come. But Paul didn't understand that they were done away with.
Col 2:16 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:
Col 2:17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
They ARE a shadow of things to come. Paul was writing how many years after Christ death here? Thirty or so? Thirty or so years have gone by and Paul thinks the holy days and sabbaths ARE, not were shadows of things to come.
But what's really interesting is if you take out the words, punctuation and numbered verses that translators add to the greek to make it more "clear":
Then do not let anyone judge you in eating or in drinking or in part of a feast, or of a new moon or of sabbaths, which are a shadow of coming things, but the body of Christ.
What does it say? Kind of changes the whole meaning when read as it was originally. It seems to be saying that you shouldn't let anyone judge your for how you observe God's Holy Days except for the body of Christ. Your brethren. And the greek here isn't referring to any other days except the ones God designated as holy.
Believe it or not.
Excellent point!