You were just provided a detailed scripture response proving that Col. 2:16 was a reference to the ceremonial sabbaths in the annual feast days and the old covenant laws of atonement and not Gods 4th commandment of the 10 commandments that give us a knowledge of what sin is when broken. You were also provided Old Testament scripture showing what Paul was quoting from in using Col. 2:16 from the old testament scriptures. You were then also provided three independent Sunday keeping Greek bible scholar commentaries agreeing with everything that I posted to you from
post # 855 linked and
post # 856 linked that were in disagreement with you that you chose to ignore. All the evidence disagrees with your claims here. So I have nothing more to share with you on this topic accept to suggest you do not know what your a talking about and might need to do some more home work.
Your claims in regards to Paul and circumcision only shows you do not understand the laws of circumcision and what they pointed to under the new covenant. Circumcision was always a shadow law pointing to being circumcised in heart to love God and man and to have God law written in the heart to love in Gods new covenant promise. This is also the context of Col 2:11-15 before Col. 2:16-17. Circumcision of the flesh in the Old testament scriptures was only a shadow of circumcision of a new heart to love under Gods new covenant promise...
FORETOLD IN THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES….
DEUTERONOMY 30 [6] And the LORD your God will
CIRCUMCISE YOUR HEART AND THE HEART OF YOUR DECENDENCE, TO LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART AND WITHYOU’RE YOUR SOUL, THAT YOU MAY LIVE.
JEREMIAH 4 [4] CIRCUMCISE YOURSELF TO THE LORD, AND TAKE AWAY THE FORESKINS OF YOUR HEART, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
DEUTERONOMY 10 [16]
CIRCUMCISE therefore
THE FORESKIN OF YOUR HEART, and be no more stiff-necked.
The new covenant is the fulfillment of the shadow law of
represented Gods new covenant promise of circumcision of the heart through faith in Christ to obey His Words…
ROMANS 2 [25] For circumcision verily profits, if you keep the law: but if you are a breaker of the law, your circumcision is made uncircumcision. [26], Therefore if the uncircumcision keeps the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision? [27], And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfils the law, judge you, who by the letter and circumcision do transgress the law? [28],
FOR HE IS NOT A JEW, WHO IS ONE; NEITHER IS THAT CIRCUMCISION, WHICH IS OF THE OUTWARD FLESH: [29], BUT HE IS A JEW WHICH IS ONE INWARDLY; AND CIRCUMCISION IS THAT OF THE HEART, IN THE SPIRIT AND NOT IN THE LETTER; WHOSE PRAISE IS NOT OF MEN BUT OF GOD.
1 CORINTHIANS 7 [19] CIRCUMCISION IS NOTHING, AND UNCIRCUMCISION IS NOTHING, BUT THE KEEPING OF THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD.
This is the operation of GOD in the NEW COVENANT…
HEBREWS 8 [10], For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord;
I WILL PUT MY LAWS INTO THEIR MINDS, AND WRITE THEM IN THEIR HEARTS: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
CONCLUSION; The ceremonial
ordinance of circumcision was a shadow law from the Mosaic book of the old covenant pointing to a circumcised new heart to love and obey God in the under Gods new covenant promise of Hebrews 8:1-12 from Jeremiah 31:31-34 and Ezekiel 36:24-27. The shadow laws of the old covenant are now fulfilled in Gods new covenant promise to which circumcision pointed to.
The abandonment came well after the death and resurrection of Jesus and well after the death of all the Apostles as they all continued to keep Gods 4th commandment according to the scriptures. In fact even Jesus expected His disciples to be continuing to keep Gods 4th commandment well into the future when talking about the signs of the last days in Matthew 24:20. The departing of Gods 4th commandment from within mainstream Christianity however was a gradual and slow one that did not take place until many centenaries later. I have a detailed historical record and reference on this topic but this topic is too big for a single post. In short momentum did not start to pick up momentum until Emperor Constantine's Sunday law edict in March 7, A.D. 321. Happy to share a full historical view with references if you are interested. Please feel free to DM me. However, throughout the times of Jesus and the Apostles after the death and resurrection of Jesus God has always had a people that have always kept His 4th commandment unbroken to this present day. This can also be verified historically.
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