Colossians 2:16 Shows Gentile Christians Kept the Holy Days

[David Ben-Ariel]

"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 ..." wrote the apostle Paul in Colossians 2:16-17 (KJV). This passage is often misinterpreted. What does it really say?

Paul was combating a local heresy. False teachers had introduced their own religious philosophy, which was a blend of Jewish and gentile concepts. Their distorted ideas were founded on human "tradition" and "principles of the world," not on the Word of God.

Colossians 2:16 Shows Gentile Christians Kept the Holy Days

[Phil McKerracher]

If you're expecting a debate about passages in the bible from a skeptical forum I think you might be disappointed.

[Killer Blob]

[quote="David Ben-Ariel"] This passage is often misinterpreted. What does it really say? [/quote]

Bugger all?

[David Ben-Ariel]

If you're expecting a debate about passages in the bible from a skeptical forum I think you might be disappointed.

Hopefully, at the very least, skeptics can see that too much of traditional Christianity is just that - traditional and not biblical.

[Phil McKerracher]

Nope - traditional, biblical, it's all rubbish.

[David Ben-Ariel]

Nope - traditional, biblical, it's all rubbish.

At least to primitive people. Thankfully, despite doubting Thomases and those hopelessly steeped in atheism, mankind will be delivered, saved from itself, by divine intervention - just as the Good Book assures us. :)

[Killer Blob]

[quote="David Ben-Ariel"] the Good Book [/quote]

I've read lots of good books. Which one do you mean?