Is it true that Seventh Day Adventist use Col.2:16 , against the Holy Days, and sunday keepers us it against?

the Sabbath?





Isn't also true Paul wrote this letter directly to the Saints showing us that they were the ones keeping all of Col.2:16, and telling the Saints don't let Others Judge you in keeping them??Is it true that Seventh Day Adventist use Col.2:16 , against the Holy Days, and sunday keepers us it against?
Colossians 2:16 is written to encourage believers to continue in the things Paul taught them, namely the Festivals, Sabbath Day, and food laws. Why woud this verse even be in a letter to a Church made up of gentiles who had come out of a heathen pagan society?





If the SDA's use this verse to prove that they should not keep the Festivals, then they should not keep the Sabbath either. The verse plainly shows it is talking about both.





16 ¶ (AV) Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:


16 ¶ (AKJV) Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:


16 ¶ (ASV) Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a feast day or a new moon or a sabbath day:


16 ¶ (Darby) Let none therefore judge you in meat or in drink, or in matter of feast, or new moon, or sabbaths,


16 ¶ (BBE) For this reason let no man be your judge in any question of food or drink or feast days or new moons or Sabbaths:


16 ¶ (YLT) Let no one, then, judge you in eating or in drinking, or in respect of a feast, or of a new moon, or of sabbaths,





http://www.coghomeschool.org/site/cog_ar…Is it true that Seventh Day Adventist use Col.2:16 , against the Holy Days, and sunday keepers us it against?
Please, next time read the context as well.





Old testament and its rules are the shadow of the real. Please read the following verses carefully.





Col 2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:


Col 2:17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
You must read the entire sentence in order to undestand the meaning of a complete sentence. That means you must read v. 17 following v. 16 of Col. 2. Read on through v. 23. Paul warned the Colossians even further against false Gnostic regulations and practices. Believers have been freed from such requirements and demands. The new life and power of a believer comes from being ';in Christ'; and not from any outside observations.





Paul wrote this letter to the Colossians while he was under house arrest in Rome A.A. 60-63, see Acts. 28:16-31. This letter was of encouragement, admonition, and a warning to the Colossians, probably at the same time he wrote Philemon, see Col. 4:10.





The church at Colosse was predominantly a Gentile church along with a few Jewish cultural elites. The faith of these new converts was being distorted by Greek mystery religions and mysticism as well as threatened by some Jewish laws and customs. Epaphras had evidently brought word to Paul of this heresy had infiltrated the church, see Col. 1:7. Paul refuted several deviations: a strict obligation to certain foods and drinks, a digression from the supremacy of Christ and His sufficiency for all, a denial of the humanity of Christ, a ';super-knowledge'; of Christ, which boasted of added wisdom and insight.





The new converts (predominantly Gentiles as I stated above) were the recipients of the letter.





The main theme of the letter to the Colossians was a new freedom ';in Christ'; and Paul expounds upon this. For the Jewish elites, they would have understood they were not bound to the O. C. which therein lied all the rules and regulations of the law any longer. Other themes are: Christ is God's only Son and a principal participant in creation, and false asceticism and ritualistic observances are denounced.





Any person who has repented of his or her sins and accepts Jesus as his or her Savior is a saint. ';Saints'; (literally ';ones set apart';) includes all believers and not just certain ones with unique virtues. The virtues, in fact, stem from the fact that these believers were ';in Christ';, a phrase used by Paul more than 160 times in his writings, in Colossians more than 10 times.
Saturday is the holy day it says it in the bible.
Hi Ernest,


Here's where I'm a little confused. Isn't 'sabbath' in this text referring to the high sabbaths rather than the weekly Sabbath? New moons, high sabbaths, feast days/weeks were all under the ceremonial law, not the moral law. We SDA's believe and teach that Israel had 3 legal systems: the moral (ten commandments), civil (slave ownership, etc.), and ceremonial (animal sacrificing and the Mosaic laws). There were some health related laws as well (found in the Mosaic re clean/unclean meat, Hygiene, etc.) but we keep them out of principle and don't consider them 'salvation' issues. At least this is my understanding. DaveC would be able to answer you better as he's an SDA and feast day observer. I starred your question so hopefully he will see it and can answer. =)





Edit: Thank you, Ernest. I will take serious consideration of what you've shared and study this more deeply. Ok, so I'm a little slow, lol...but once I get something, I've got it! The Hebrew word search is where I'll start. :)