Thematic Bible: False religion, characteristics of


Thematic Bible



But now that you have found God--or, rather, have been found by him--how is it that you are turning back to that poor and feeble puerile teaching, to which yet once again you are wanting to become slaves? Verse ConceptsGod, All knowingElementsConfusionUseless ThingsUniquenessElements Of The UniverseGod Knowing His PeopleSubject To EvilWorry And StressIdentityWeaknessKnowing GodIdentity In Christ

When they come from market, they will not eat without first sprinkling themselves; and there are many other customs which they have inherited and hold to, such as the ceremonial washing of cups, and jugs, and copper pans). Verse ConceptsMarketsBrassPurifying OneselfClean ObjectsHow People Eatmarketing

Why, then, do you now provoke God, by putting on the necks of these disciples a yoke which neither our ancestors nor we were able to bear? Verse ConceptsLegalismSatan, As TempterTestingYokesTesting GodUnbearable ThingsPutting God FirstResisting TemptationTeststrying


Since, with Christ, you became dead to the puerile teaching of this world, why do you submit, as though your life were still that of the world, Verse ConceptsMortificationAbolish, Evil ThingsChristian Liberty Is Freedom FromFormalityDying With ChristDead To SinElements Of The UniverseHuman Law

the whole system being concerned only with food and drink and various ablutions--external ceremonials imposed until the coming of the New Order. Verse ConceptsRitualLimitations Of The Bodyorder