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Post by ruach805 on Mar 12, 2010 19:33:59 GMT -8
N e one have a good explanation or link on a hebraic perspective on this scripture. Colossians 2:16-17
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Post by David Ben Yosef on Mar 16, 2010 1:42:06 GMT -8
Perhaps your just in need of an accurate translation of the text. Try this one on for size:
(Colossians 2:13-23 Complete Jewish Bible)
You were dead because of your sins, that is, because of your "foreskin," your old nature. But God made you alive along with the Messiah by forgiving you all your sins. He wiped away the bill of charges against us. Because of the regulations, it stood as a testimony against us; but he removed it by nailing it to the execution-stake. Stripping the rulers and authorities of their power, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by means of the stake. So don't let anyone pass judgment on you in connection with eating and drinking, or in regard to a Jewish festival or Rosh-Hodesh or Shabbat. These are a shadow of things that are coming, but the body is of the Messiah. Don't let anyone deny you the prize by insisting that you engage in self-mortification or angel-worship. Such people are always going on about some vision they have had, and they vainly puff themselves up by their worldly outlook. They fail to hold to the Head, from whom the whole Body, receiving supply and being held together by its joints and ligaments, grows as God makes it grow. If, along with the Messiah, you died to the elemental spirits of the world, then why, as if you still belonged to the world, are you letting yourselves be bothered by its rules? - "Don't touch this!" "Don't eat that!" "Don't handle the other!" Such prohibitions are concerned with things meant to perish by being used [not by being avoided!], and they are based on man-made rules and teachings. They do indeed have the outward appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed religious observances, false humility and asceticism; but they have no value at all in restraining people from indulging their old nature.
Does that clear things up for you? If not, let me know and I'll expound upon it.
Shalom
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Post by ruach805 on Apr 9, 2010 14:36:56 GMT -8
Please expound on the part of judging about. The shabbot etc and after that about it being a shadow and about the body.
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Post by R' Y'hoshua Moshe on Apr 18, 2010 18:09:35 GMT -8
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