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The All-Sufficient Christ
Paul’s purpose in writing the Colossian epistlewas to refute the Colossian heresy that haddeveloped, which was a combination of anextreme form of Judaism in whichceremonialism with its strict rules regarding foodand drink, religious festivals and circumcisionwere promoted, and an early form of Gnosticism.
The All-Sufficient Christ
This early form of Gnosticism had taken onaspects of asceticism, angel worship, secretknowledge, the reliance upon human wisdomand tradition, which all led to the depreciation oChrist. Paul, therefore, in this wonderfullywritten and inspiring letter accomplishes thefollowing:
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