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Podcast: Bible Study - Sabbath School Podcast
Episode: Episode 2691 - Lesson 10 - Thursday March 05 - Commandments of Men
Description: Commandments of MenRead Colossians 2:20-23. How do you understand Paul's admonitions in light of the other elements discussed in this chapter?As in his epistle to the Galatians, Paul characterizes the concern over keeping Jewish ceremonies as "the basic principles of the world" (Col. 2:8, 20, NKJV; compare Gal. 4:3, 9). In other words, like the earthly temple, these things belong to the earth, but our citizenship is in heaven. We need not be encumbered with the ceremonial law because it merely foreshadowed the reality that we now enjoy through Christ. That is, even though originally given by God...