Humanity's Identity
With this post I will draw from a combination of two passages of Scripture as I did back when all was new in our start up. To start these will be in part or in whole as dictated by the wording of the overall thought.
Hebrews 10:1-2 and then Colossians 2:16-19,these being in the KJV, so here goes:
"For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with these same sacrifices, which they offered continually year by year, make those who approach perfect; For then would they not have ceased to be offered? Because that the worshipers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. ......Therefore let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths, which are only a shadow of things to come, for the substance is Christ. Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshiping of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, and not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increases with the increase of GOD."
Now for the Mirror Study Bible's rendition of these same passages without the accompanying interpretations, expect where it enhances the passage: "For the law presented to us a faint shadow, outlining the promise of the blessings anticipated in the coming of Christ, even detailing its future significance. The mere sketch however, could never be confused with the actual object that it represented. The annual sacrificial rites as shadow of the eventual object would always leave the worshiper feeling inadequate and be a reminder year after year of the sinfulness of humanity....Do not let anyone therefore bring a restriction to your freedom by reviving religious rules and regulations pertaining to eating and drinking; All Jewish festivals, new moons, and Sabbaths have come to an end in Christ! (As there relevance only served to remind of the promise of Christ on an annual, monthly, and weekly basis. They carried the promise like a placenta would hold the unborn child, but obsolete as soon as the child was born.) These things were only prophetic shadows; Christ is the substance. A religious mentality of voluntary humility and obsession with pious observances of angles will bring you no further reward. So do not let anyone who tries to act as an umpire of your devotion insist on his own opinion, confined to a mind inflated by the sensational and spooky; His so called visions are just a puff of hot air. [(In his judgment he fails to correctly interpret the legal implications of the Cross.) "Don't tolerate people who try to run your life, ordering you to bow and scrape, [in order to improve your standing before and in GOD] insisting that you join their obsession with angles and that you seek out visions. They're a lot of hot air, that's all they are.'] Such religious jargon is completely out of rhythm with the head. We are directly connected to Christ Who like a choir conductor draws out the music in everyone like a tapestry of art that intertwines in harmony to reveal the full stature of divine inspiration. (Which is Christ in you, The word, G2023, epichoregeo, translated as, having nourishment ministered, is choir director. [2Peter 1:11] Thus, the great Conductor of music will draw your life into the full volume of the harmony of the ages.)
Within the context of many of my comments and thoughts postings on FB I have expressed much of this already. Isn't interesting how GOD perfects His will within us.
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