According to Catholic Catechism # 508, Yeshua was not the only perfect/sinless person ever to walk the earth. In fact, Catechism #508 states that Mary was born without original sin then goes on to state she never sinned while on earth.

Catechism #508 –  From among the descendants of Eve, God chose the Virgin Mary to be the mother of his Son. “Full of grace”, Mary is “the most excellent fruit of redemption” (SC 103): from the first instant of her conception, she was totally preserved from the stain of original sin and she remained pure from all personal sin throughout her life.

We know that Paul wrote many letters and those letters often showed they were all still keeping the feasts. Here are some verses that show “Feast Keeping” was still being observed. (Luke 2:41, Matthew 26:17, Mark 14:12, Luke 22:7, Acts 20:6).

So we are often asked whom Paul was writing to in the following verse.

Colossians 2:16. “Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath.”

Many believe Paul is talking to the new non-Jewish believers often called Gentiles. We have a study showing the word Gentile never existed and is a bad translation of all non-Jews. Basically Gentile, from the word Goy(im), means Nation(s) outside the Nation of Israel. If you are in covenant and believe in the Messiah then you have become part of the Nation of Israel; biblically speaking.

Now back on track. Many believe Paul was telling the new converts to not worry about doing any of that stuff because it is for the Jews only and all that “Law” stuff was nailed to the cross. Well…….We dove in and took a look into this exact subject a little more to see whom exactly Paul was talking to.

Paul mentions the name Epaphras and tells us he was imprisoned with him (Philemon 1:23). Epaphras was from Colossae. It is highly plausible Epaphras founded the church in Colossae to whom the book of Colossians was written. Those beliefs probably spread to start the churches in Laodicea and Hierapolis. Taking those facts into account along with the fact that Paul himself was still celebrating feast days, Paul would have taught Epaphras to “KEEP” the feast days along with everything else. We feel if that is the case then Paul is not writing to the Church of Colossae to tell them to stop doing those things but to not worry about those outside the church that are passing judgment on them because the “ARE” doing those things.

For an even more in-depth look take a look at our 5 facts about the Book of Colossians.

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Many are taught Colossians 2:16-23 does away with the Old Covenant or more specifically the Torah (1^st Five Books of Old Testament).  The Torah is simply HIS divine instructions.

Colossians fact #1:  The ENTIRE book of Colossians never mentions the word Law one time.  Keeping this in mind, we should never point the book of Colossians in the direction of making the Torah (Divine Instructions) obsolete.

Colossians fact #2:  There are many bad translations for the word “new” as in “new covenant” throughout the Bible.  It should be translated as saying “Renewed” covenant.  All covenants are layered on top of the previous covenant throughout the history of HIS sacred text.  As far as the Old Testament verses the New Testament goes a man named Marcion coined those terms.  If somebody handed you a Bible as a child and you were never taught to separate the two Testaments you would learn the Divine Instructions first (Torah=1^st Five Books) and then learn as you read further along that you are saved by belief in Yeshua (Jesus).    By learning this way you would not just throw away all the commands because you were saved by Yeshua (Jesus).

Colossians fact #3: Colossians 2:16-23 is talking about Human Precepts not Yahweh’s (God’s) precepts.

Colossians fact #4: The only thing that changed is “how” we are saved.  We are saved by the belief in the One True Messiah.  Having Faith has always been required from the beginning of creation.  If you don’t have Faith you never had any promise in the Old Testament.  If Adam would have had Faith he would not have eaten from the Tree of knowledge.  The Israelites showed their Faith through obedience.  They had to paint blood of their doorposts to avoid death of their 1^st born male sons.  The reason they obeyed the command to paint the blood is because they had FAITH.  Without Faith their 1^st born male children would have been killed.  Without obedience their 1^st born male children would have been killed.  They had both.  They had the Faith what they were told was true and they followed in obedience to the command.

Colossians fact #5:  The Torah (1^st Five Books of Old Testament=Divine Instructions) commands that in order to be judged and found guilty there must be 2 witness to the offense (see Deuteronomy 19:15).  Keeping this in mind we all know that our Messiah did and will follow Torah (Divine Instructions) perfectly forever and never sin against it.  So let’s cover “CERTIFICATE/RECORD OF DEBT” as mentioned in Colossians 2:14.  The correct translation means “debt” in Aramaic.  Some translate as sin but sinning is basically making us go into debt to HIM.  When we sin, Yahweh (God) is the 1^st witness to that offense.  The Certificate of Debt is the 2^nd witness to that sin.  In following the commands from Torah (Divine Instructions) our Elohim (God) would have the required witnesses (2 or more) to condemn us and take away eternal life.   When Yeshua (Jesus) died on the stake HE erased the 2^nd witness (Certificate of Debt) allowing us to be found blameless before the Father (Yahweh).  Now that only one witness is left we can’t be held accountable for our sin.  The ONLY way we are then saved is through the belief in the Messiah dying for us to erase the 2^nd witness.

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