Hi Roy,
Long time no chat brother, hope you do not think i am ignoring what you wrote already. I was going over The Scriptures below last night on twitter, they seem to me anyway; to address your concerns along with others that i can get; or someone else will post soon.
Adding my understanding in part; if you think it wrong and do it anyway, that is sinning. Remember This:
Col 2: 8-23 (Rotherham)
8 Be taking heed, lest there shall be anyone leading, you, off as a spoil, through means of their philosophy, and an empty deceit,—according to the instruction of men, according to the first principles of the world,—and not according to Christ:
9 Because, in him, dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead, bodily,
10 And ye are, in him, filled full,—Who, is the head of all principality and authority,
11 In whom, ye have also been circumcised with a circumcision not done by hand, in the despoiling of the body of flesh, in the circumcision of the Christ,—
12 Having been buried together with him in your immersion, wherein also ye have been raised together, through your faith in the energising of God—Who raised him from among the dead.
13 And, as for you—who were, dead, by your offences and by the uncircumcision of your flesh, he hath brought you to life together with him,—having in favour forgiven us all our offences,
14 Having blotted out the handwriting against us by the decrees, which was hostile to us,—and hath taken away, the same, out of the midst, nailing it up to the cross:
15 Spoiling the principalities and the authorities, he made of them an open example, celebrating a triumph over them thereby.
16 Let no one, therefore, be judging, you,—in eating and in drinking, or in respect of feast, or new moon, or sabbath,—
17 Which are a shadow of the things to come, whereas, the body, is of the Christ.
18 Let, no one, against you, be arbitrating, however wishful,—in respect of lowliness of mind, and of a religious observance of the messengers: upon what things he hath seen, taking his stand, in vain, puffed up by his carnal mind,—
19 And not holding fast the head: from which, all the body, through means of its joints and uniting bands, receiving supply, and connecting itself together, groweth with the growth of God.
20 If ye have died, together with Christ, from the first principles of the world, why, as though alive in the world, are ye submitting to decrees,—
21 Do not handle, nor taste, nor touch;—
22 Which things are all for decay in the using up;—according to the commandments and teachings of men?
23 The which things, indeed, though they have, an appearance, of wisdom, in self-devised religious observance, and lowliness of mind, and ill-treatment of body, are, in no honourable way, unto a satisfying of the flesh.
george.
