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. These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.
Colossians 2:16-17 (ESV)
Christ is sufficient. It’s not Christ plus our obedience to any sort of law or regulation. “Christ and his new order are the perfect reality to which these earlier commandments looked. The reality has already come and the things of the shadow have no binding force; they are no longer a norm for judgment” (New Bible Commentary). Those who teach Christ plus anything are distorting the gospel, falsely leading others back into the slavery from which Christ came to free us. By faith alone, through Christ alone, that is how we have been saved, are saved, and are being saved.
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