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To: Mark17
Colossians 2:16-23 Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ. Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind, and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.

If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations— “Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch” (referring to things that all perish as they are used)—according to human precepts and teachings? These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.

Sound familiar?

1,319 posted on 05/07/2015 6:57:19 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: metmom
Sound familiar?

Yes, it sounds familiar. It amazes me that so many so called religious experts can't understand this. Maybe it is too simple, that they can't see the forest because there are trees in the way. You and me, and a bunch of others understand it perfectly. 🇵🇭😃

1,325 posted on 05/07/2015 7:29:08 PM PDT by Mark17 (The love of God, how rich and pure, how measureless and strong. It shall forever more endure.)
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To: metmom
Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink,

Eucharist??

1,357 posted on 05/08/2015 4:43:12 AM PDT by Elsie
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