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To: editor-surveyor; Elsie

No but I may need to remind you of something you have forgotten.... Colossians 2:13-23! (context is important as the verses hang together)

You are referring to Colossians 2:14 but you can’t understand verse 14 without verse 13... and then v15-23

“When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you[d] alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, 14 having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross. 15 And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross! Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. 17 These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ. 18 Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you. Such a person also goes into great detail about what they have seen; they are puffed up with idle notions by their unspiritual mind. 19 They have lost connection with the head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow.

20 Since you died with Christ to the elemental spiritual forces of this world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its rules: 21 “Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!”? 22 These rules, which have to do with things that are all destined to perish with use, are based on merely human commands and teachings. 23 Such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility and their harsh treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence.”

He took away the eternal death penalty by forgiving our sins incurred by our sinning against God as well as disarming the social co-ercive powers of those who couldn’t keep the pure law themselves but insisted that others follow complex formulas, or rituals or to hold certain days sacred. The whole chapter actually stands against your views of how you think Christians should approach Christianity and of the “various laws” we are supposed to keep. I’ll bet you don’t even keep them perfectly...I just think that if you live in such a mind set, then it must be misery for you to know that if you get one thing wrong, Yehoshua will squeeze you like a grape(/s)!(Now I don’t think he’s out to squeeze you like a grape but as Lion of the Tribe of Judah, he just wants to rub his mane against you purring and to lick you with the tongue of his grace!)


467 posted on 08/03/2016 4:16:27 AM PDT by mdmathis6 (BEWARE THE ABORTION POLITICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX!)
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To: mdmathis6
... but insisted that others follow complex formulas, or rituals or to hold certain days sacred.

HMMMmmm...

THIS sure sounds familiar!

470 posted on 08/03/2016 4:27:41 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: mdmathis6
 
 
 
 

 
Micah 6:8
He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.


John 6:28-29
Then they asked him, "What must we do to do the works God requires?
 Jesus answered, "The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent."


1 John 3:21-23
Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him.
And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us.


James 1:27
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
 

 
 
 

471 posted on 08/03/2016 4:29:19 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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Dang! Micah  forgot to add; "...and follow TORAH!"
 
Dang! John   forgot to add; "...and follow TORAH!"
 
Dang! James forgot to add; "...and follow TORAH!"
 
 

472 posted on 08/03/2016 4:31:51 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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