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NASB | Galatians 4:3 So also we, while we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental things of the world. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Galatians 4:3 So also we [whether Jews or Gentiles], when we were children (spiritually immature), were kept like slaves under the elementary [man-made religious or philosophical] teachings of the world. |
Bible Question:
Fellow saints, What are the elemental things of the world? How were we in bondage to them? Are we now truly free from them? If not, how do we achieve freedom? In Christ Jesus, charis |
Bible Answer: "...weak and beggarly and worthless elementary things" Charis: In answer to the first of your questions, What are the elemental things of the world?, I submit the following verses of Scripture. I quote the text only and leave commentary to others. (Asterisks have been inserted by me for emphasis.) Gal 4:3, 9-10 (Amplified) 3 So we [Jewish Christians] also, when we were minors, were kept like slaves under [the rules of the Hebrew ritual and subject to] the *elementary* teachings of a system of external observations and regulations. 9 Now, however, that you have come to be acquainted with and understand and know [the true] God, or rather to be understood and known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and beggarly and worthless *elementary things* [of all religions before Christ came], whose slaves you once more want to become? 10 You observe [particular] days and months and seasons and years! Col 2:20-23 (Amplified) 20 If then you have died with Christ to material ways of looking at things and have escaped from the world’s crude and *elemental* notions and teachings of externalism, why do you live as if you still belong to the world? [Why do you submit to rules and regulations?—such as] 21 Do not handle [this], Do not taste [that], Do not even touch [them], 22 Referring to things all of which perish with being used. To do this is to follow human precepts and doctrines. [Isa. 29:13]. 23 Such [practices] have indeed the outward appearance [that popularly passes] for wisdom, in promoting self-imposed rigor of devotion and delight in self-humiliation and severity of discipline of the body, but they are of no value in checking the indulgence of the flesh (the lower nature). [Instead, they do not honor God but serve only to indulge the flesh.] |
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