I am not bashing the Sabbath. I do point out that Christ is the real rest of God and of man.
You call this bashing the Sabbath. This is Christ being the reality of God's Rest.
Colossians tells us this. But you also don't agree with Colossians as you do not with Romans.
Let no one therefore judge you in eating and in drinking or in respect of a feast or of a new moon or of the Sabbath, (Col. 2:16)
I hear you gathering up protest like "Oh the CONTEXT, you see, is not about the Sabbath of the 4th commandment, the seventh day".
You see on a Forum about Sabbath you labor to make sure ONLY the legality of seventh day rest/ worship is a legitimate contribution.
I do not protest any Word of God, but I think we need to carefully examine all context. God said He would not alter His covenant, Jesus said not something as small as dot of an i can't be changed, so just from this alone we know its not referring to one of the Ten Commandments.
Also, it is Paul who wrote Colossians, and we are warned his teachings are hard to understand and many misinterpret to their own destruction 1 Peter 3 :16 so when Paul teachings are in direct contradiction to the teachings of Jesus, you know there's some misunderstandings.
I know you're referring to Col 2:17 but if you carefully examine the context Col 2:14 tells us what it is referring to and its not the seventh day Sabbath commandment.
Paul was clear,
the sabbath(s) in ordinances handwritten by Moses Co 2:14 Blotting out the
handwriting of ordinances that
was against us, which was
contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
The weekly Sabbath is a
commandment of God ,
finger written personally by our Lord and Savior Exo 31:18 Exo 32:16 that is
holy and blessed and God said "
Remember" because He knew everyone would forget. Once God blesses something as He did the Sabbath day, man cannot reverse.
Num 23:20
Contrary and against is not the definition for holy and blessed by God.
Handwritten ordinances is not finger written commandments.
The context clearly shows it is not referring to the Sabbath commandment, but typically people do not care about the context just as Jesus predicted John 3:19-20
For me, if we are going to disregard one of God's commandments, especially the one commandment God said Remember- the one commandment that is holy and blessed by God, I would want something just as clear as how God wrote and God spoke and would have to have a thus saith the Lord attached since no one is above what He personally engraved. All the thus saith the Lords around the Sabbath is for us to keep and not profane His holy day. That is where my faith lies in His every Word.