Unclean creatures (acts 10:-16) eat with Gentiles (acts 10:17-48 & Gal 2:11-14) not keeping holy days (Col 2:16) all things to all people (1Cor 9:19-23)
There you go.
The Law and Messiah are not in opposition to each other. Check that conjunction in Greek: it is not necessarily 'however'. And remember that the context is the gnostics telling the Colossians they shouldn't do the feasts...... Sorry of like you are telling others.
My point still stands despite your interpretation. I would rather fall in love with the substance not the shadow. What you want to do is equivalent to making out with a picture of your wife while she is standing in front of you. The shadow is meaningless, the substance is what counts.
Not true at all. You seem to think that the shadow disappears when the person casting it is present and that's simply untrue.
Another thing, the shadow will always outline what the shadow caster looks like-if we contextualize that, it means that the Law outlines who Messiah is and He will do: that substance is still the Law! He lived it and was it's physical embodiment on earth; the shadow caster only defines it's shadow more. His claim in Matthew 5:17-20 is to do just that: full it up and define it more for us to follow Him.
The administration of the priesthood changed when the Tabernacle dissolved into the Temple system
And remember that the context is the gnostics telling the Colossians they shouldn't do the feasts......
Zigfeild said,
I am divorced from the law and married to Christ.
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-- What does your wife feel about that ?
John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
Revelation 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints:
here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
(Col 2:17 NIV) These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ.
The most important part of the verse is the last part: "the reality, however, is found in Christ".
Unclean creatures (acts 10:-16) eat with Gentiles (acts 10:17-48 & Gal 2:11-14) not keeping holy days (Col 2:16) all things to all people (1Cor 9:19-23)
There you go.
The things to come was Christ and the cross. That's what the festivals were pointing to. Besides, I would rather fall in love with the substance not the shadow. What you want to do is equivalent to making out with a picture of your wife while she is standing in front of you. The shadow is meaningless, the substance is what counts.
The priests still had to be Levites from the family of Aaron.
The writer of Hebrews tells us that was still the case up to the days of Christ Jesus:
(Heb 7:5) And verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of Abraham:
Watch this, it will show you that the shadows are done away with.
http://youtu.be/BM5--wsKIuk
Don't reply to this unless you actually watched it. So watch it and if you want to talk about it cool.
No they didn't. They were told to eat "unclean" creatures, ate with Gentiles, and didn't feel the need to observe feasts and sabbaths. Paul said he was all things to all men. He would live like a gentile to win them over to Jesus.
I've stopped at minute 13
at 12:32 he admits the passage says are, present tense, shadows of things that are, present tense, to come, future, and at 12:42 he admits the word is body not substance. That destroys your whole argument and admits mine. It's over dude. Finished. You've been had.
But that's the point: His shadow outlines Him and He is the fullness of what His shadow represents. If you carry that into the discussion of the Law, He is the fullness of what the Law stated-He is the Word incarnate.Read Romans 7 and you'll find out I'm right. Besides, when I have Jesus in front of me I don't care about his shadow.
I'm not saying that I'm in love with a shadow. That's ridiculous and a straw man. I'm telling you that if you're saying that the shadow is made obsolete then carry the analogy through to it's actual end: He is the fullness of the Law embodied. It is worth arguing because you are still setting up a fallacious argument that you think that I'm giving you and that is simply untrue.It's stupid to care about the shadow of the person you love when they are right there. In essence to love the shadow when the person is there is to commit adultery with their shadow. It's ridiculous and not even worth arguing about because it is so stupid.
On the contrary, I'm saying that he is telling the Colossians to ignore the Gnostics when they try to judge the Colossians for following the commands of God-in particular, the feast days.Are you calling the Apostle Paul a gnostic?