CHRISTALAYA BIBLE STUDY:

COLOSSIANS

Growing Up Into the Fullness of Christ 2:6-8

Just asso also

Just as you received Christ Jesus the Lord

Paul uses the article the not the adverb as

So also walk in him

(pe-ri-pa-TE-oh) has the implicit idea of ability

Hence, so also demonstrate the ability to walk in him

Rooted and built up

(rhi-ZAW-oh)

Figuratively to become stable to have a proper

foundation

We get the word rhizome from this word

In perfect passive participle form having been rooted

(ep-oi-ko-do-MAY-oh)

to build upon to construct

In present passive participle form being built up

A foundation is laid once. The building continues to

be improved.

Strengthenedfaithtaught

The faith as you were taught

Not a reference to our subjective faith Deepaks

faith in Jesus

Rather a reference to our objective faith the

Christian faith

The Christian faith is what we are taught

Our subjective faith must be in accordance with our

objective faith

Experience interpreted in light of teaching, not vice

versa

Philosophy

(phi-lo-so-PHI-a)

Greeks thought that their philosophers represented the

heights of human thought

Paul says that even these heights of human thought

cannot unravel the mysteries of God

So philosophy should not be given primacy

Empty deception

Complicated religious systems appeal to people

A stab at Gnostic thought

Truth is simple

Human traditions

Jewish thinkers loved to rely on tradition

Rituals were observed because we have always done

so rather than because they had some meaning

You cannot convince anyone by appeal to tradition

Appeal to tradition is an end to the conversation

Traditions may be derived from convictions

Convictions cannot be derived from traditions

Rudiments of the world

(stoi-KHAY-on)

Means rudiments or first principles

Greeks were concerned about studying the world

Today we would call this science

Not according to Christ

Four things

Philosophy logic

Empty deception building complicated systems

Tradition ritualism

Rudiments science

Pauls view

Not bad in themselves

But cannot lead us to Christ