COLOSSIANS 2 CONTEXT OF COL 2 IS NOT SIN
What is the definition of sin [1 John 3:4; Romans 6:23, etc] that Paul utilizes in the very context?
Colossians 2:11 KJB In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the
sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
Colossians 2:12 KJB Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with [him] through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from
the dead.
Colossians 2:13 KJB And you,
being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you
all trespasses:
See the like parallel, in
Ephesians 2:
Ephesians 2:1 KJB And you
hath he quickened, who were
dead in
trespasses and
sins;
Ephesians 2:2 KJB Wherein in time past
ye walked according to the course of this world,
according to the prince of the power of the air,
the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
Ephesians 2:3 KJB Among whom also
we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were
by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
Colossians 2 KJB, parallels
Ephesians 2 KJB, and
Hebrews 9-10 KJB. The language is the same. The "ordinances" in
Colossians 2 deals with "shadows", such as the
daily "meat and drink" offerings of a worldly sanctuary and carnal ordinances, the
seasonal "feast days", the
monthly "new moons", and the
year based "sabbaths", in the singular, every 7 and 50th years, as Paul is citing
Psalms 98:1-3; and
Ezekiel 45:17 KJB with other texts.
The Sabbath of the LORD thy God is always called "my [as in God's] sabbaths", and the others in
Leviticus 23:4 onward are called "your [the peoples] sabbaths" [
Leviticus 26:35 KJB] which are "beside [given in addition to] the sabbaths of the LORD" [
Leviticus 23:38 KJB]. The Ten Commandments, including the Sabbath of the 4th Commandment, are "light" [
Proverbs 6:23,
Isaiah 8:20, 51:4 KJB], never a "shadow", are "spiritual" [
Romans 7:14 KJB], never "carnal" [
Hebrews 9:10 KJB].
Colossians 2:14 - "ordinances"
Ephesians 2:15 - "law of commandments contained in ordinances"
Hebrews 9:1 - "ordinances of divine service"
Hebrews 9:10 - "carnal ordinances"
Colossians 2:16 - "in meat, or in drink" [offerings]
Hebrews 9:10 - "meats and drinks" [offerings]
Colossians 2:12 - "also ye are risen with him"
Ephesians 2:6 - "raised us up together"
Colossians 2:16 - "a shadow of things to come"
Ephesians 2:7 - "in the ages to come"
Hebrews 9:11 - "of good things to come"
Hebrews 10:1 - "the law having a shadow of good things to come", "those sacrifices", "offered year by year"
[ps. none of the Ten Commandments deal with carnal sacrifices]
[sub Q.] Where is the word sin used here in regards to the
"blotting out" in vs 14?