BANDERSNATCH
Senior Member
16Therefore let no one judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a festival, a New Moon, or a Sabbath. 17These are a shadow of the things to come, but the body that casts it belongs to Christ.
Impending things, the reality yet to come, a shadow of the things to come.
So, these things haven't came?
Paul states here, written well after Jesus had ascended, that they were a shadow of things to come. Isaiah tells us plainly that we will still be celebrating festivals (Tabernacles in particular) throughout the millennium and also New moons and Sabbaths.
You know, over the last 2000 years people have accused Paul, falsely, of preaching against Moses' Law and telling people not to circumcise their children (Acts 21) and people are still accusing Paul of the same thing today. When Paul arrived in Jerusalem, James warned him that there were "thousands of Christ-believing Jews there who loved the Law" and that they had heard that Paul was preaching against Moses. (Keep in mind, this was late in Paul's life, right before he was taken to Rome) James said, "Just so that we can show them that THERE IS NOTHING TO WHAT THEY HAVE HEARD, we want you to do this...." Then he said, "that way they will all know that you, too, WALK UPRIGHT, KEEPING THE LAW" What was the evidence of Paul walking "Upright"? It was because he kept the law!
In II Peter 3:15-17, Peter warns his readers (written to the Galatians primarily) that Paul's writings were "hard to understand" and that when they listen to naysayers they will be "led away with the error of LAWLESS men, and FALL FROM THEIR SECURE POSITION" (Implying that believers can fall from their secure position if they listen to the words of lawless men.
Anyway, Acts 21 sums up Paul's position, but Christians still today accuse Paul of the same stuff. If you only went by the word's of our Messiah, you'd never thing God didn't want us to obey Him. "If you love me, keep my commandments" Jesus...speaking for the Father.