You have died with Christ. You died with Christ in your act of baptism (Colossians 2:12) and became free from the Law and human wisdom (Colossians 2:8). Ruling Spirits of the universe. This sometimes means the Jewish rites (Galatians 4:3). It is implied that angels rule this world, and that forbidding marriage and the eating of meat and making rules about such things comes from them. [These would have to be bad angels.] Why do you obey such rules? "Don't handle this," "Don't taste that," "Don't touch the other," are the rules of the false teachers, which Paul says belong to this world, not to Christ. Christians do not belong to this world, therefore they do not obey the obsolete rites mentioned in this chapter [as a religious act].

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