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You didn't really read it because the title has Colossians 1:24 as the topic, so obviously this is about your views on 1:22-23 being some refutation on purgatory.
Col 1:24 “Now I rejoice in my suffering for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ on behalf of his body, which is the church”. (find another translation too if you want)
I would like to see how you fit this verse in the context you are proposing of Col 1:22-23, before giving you my actual response to your interpretation of Col 1:22.
So you have no sin, and you are confident that from today till the day you die you are sinless, refer to Colossians 1:24 to complete the entire message of that context.
As for your question, no i don't think the Colossians lived without any sin.
What suffering is Paul enduring for Jesus’ sake? Notice this suffering is not for Paul’s sake. Do you believe this is referring to temporal punishment? How would that be for Jesus’ sake? Paul is rejoicing that the world hates him just as Jesus said it would because he is spreading the gospel for Jesus’ sake. Notice verse 25
“Of this church I was made a minister according to the stewardship from God bestowed on me for your benefit, so that I might fully carry out the preaching of the word of God,”
Colossians 1:25
Paul is rejoicing in his suffering because he is carrying out the will of God. This is not temporal punishment because according to the Roman Church that would be for Paul’s sake not Jesus’ sake.
I never said I am sinless. I said I am unblemished. My sins are paid for in full by Jesus Christ’s sacrifice which have rendered me as a sinner holy, blameless and without blemish it fault of any kind as I stand before God now able to enter the most holy place. Hence the veil was torn. Did you not get the point I was making about the Colossians? Do you think they were sinless when Paul wrote the epistle to the Colossians? Surely Paul was not writing to people who had already gone thru purgatory.
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