View source for Col 2:16-23 What is Paul warning Christians against here?

====Col 2:16-23	What is Paul warning Christians against here?====

Paul is warning Christians here against allowing themselves to be caught up in self-imposed fastings and self-denials of anything to appear religious, which are not forbidden in scripture (CP V16-18). 

Christians are also not to observe holy days, new moons or sabbaths. 

All these things were only ever meant to point to Jesus, and now that He has come they are fulfilled (CP V20-23 with Ro 14:5-6; Ga 4:8-11; He 10:1-10). 

In Col 2:18-19 Paul exhorts Christians not to let anyone induce them to forgo the spiritual for the natural: now that we have found Christ and been delivered from sin's power by the Holy Spirit baptizing us into Christ's body - the church - we must not revert to fleshly things. 

If we do we are no longer acknowledging Christ as the head of the church (CP Ro 6:3-5, 16 with Ga 3:1-5; Eph 4:14-18; 2Jn 8). 

See also comments on Ac 12:4, Ro 14:1-9, Ga 4:9.

[[Colossians:]]