Soyeong said in post #76:
Colossians 2:16-17 . . .
If you take these verses by themselves, then they are ambiguous as to whether Paul is saying not to let anyone judge them for keeping God's holy days or for not keeping them . . .
Colossians 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:
17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
Hebrews 10:1 ¶For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things . . .
Hebrews 9:10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come . . .
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Colossians 2:16-17 means under the New Covenant all foods are in themselves okay for all Christians, whether Jews or Gentiles, to eat. For it means Christians shouldn't let anyone judge them regarding what meat they eat (Colossians 2:16), because the letter of the Old Covenant Mosaic law was a mere shadow of things to come (Colossians 2:17, Hebrews 10:1, Hebrews 9:10-11), and it was blotted out by Jesus Christ on the Cross (Colossians 2:14-17).
Colossians 2:16-17 also means Christians aren't to judge each other over not keeping the letter of the Old Covenant Mosaic sabbaths, which included the one-day-a-week, resting-from-work sabbath (Exodus 31:13-15). Under the New Covenant, Christians don't need to esteem only one day of the week, but can esteem every day of the week (Romans 14:5). For they're to rest from their own works, as in those done apart from abiding in Jesus Christ (John 15:4-5), every day of the week (Hebrews 4:3,10, Luke 9:23, Matthew 11:28-30).
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