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NASB | Colossians 2:16 ¶ Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day-- |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Colossians 2:16 ¶ Therefore let no one judge you in regard to food and drink or in regard to [the observance of] a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day. |
Subject: Do we play or pray? |
Bible Note: "Such rules...have no real value in controlling physical passions. " 20 You have died with Christ and are set free from the ruling spirits of the universe. Why, then, do you live as though you belonged to this world? Why do you obey such rules as 21 "Don't handle this," "Don't taste that," "Don't touch the other"? 22 All these refer to things which become useless once they are used; they are only human rules and teachings. 23 Of course such rules appear to be based on wisdom in their forced worship of angels, and false humility, and severe treatment of the body; but they have no real value in controlling physical passions. (Today's English Version (TEV) Col 2.) SteveB: I am confused. You write: "I have written John - w/o any response from him." According to the current (as of this writing) tree of this thread: You asked a primary question. (8:43am) I replied to you. (11:19am) You replied to me. (11:33am) I, in turn, answered you. (12:38pm) You replied to me (2:55pm) saying, "I have written John - w/o any response from him." Now I'm replying to your post of 2:55pm. This is why I am confused. You wrote to me twice. I replied twice. The only other note from you that I know of is the one to which I am at this very moment replying to. If you sent me an email, I just checked my inbox and it shows no email from you. If you have written to me in a message to which I have not replied, then I overlooked your message. In this thread I have not intentionally failed to reply to you. I may indeed have failed to reply to one of your messages, but if so I was unaware of said message. **************************** You write:" This is another error by one that you follow." 1) I follow Christ. 2) Butler is not correct. You write: "I am done debating this with you." I am grateful and relieved that you are done debating this with me. As a Cardinals fan, I'd rather watch a Cubs baseball game. Because of the wording and attitude with which you write your questions and comments, it would be a total waste of my time to reply to you any further. I doubt that you will ever convince anyone of anything if your method is to use criticism and condemnation in your responses. Of course if you have no valid point, you have to find something to say, even if it is not correct. Apparently you have already made up your mind and have no desire to be confused by the facts. You write: "We will know the truth when we see the Lord." I hope you will. I hope that his "interpretation" agrees with yours. Further, if it does not, I hope against hope that you will not make the pronouncement that "The Lord is not correct." In conclusion, I now write: "I am done debating this with you." I wonder if it's been a true debate or if it was merely two simultaneous monologues in which it was all talking and little listening on your part. In all fairness you did listen to me in order to gather ammunition with which to criticize and condemn me, Dr. Scofield, Dr. MacArthur and anyone else who might have the temerity to disagree with you. Since neither Sabbath keeping nor non-Sabbath keeping is an essential Bible doctrine, then I wouldn't spend too much time worrying about it. It's no sin for you to keep it as long as you keep it to and for yourself. |