Commentary on Colossians 2:16-18- "False Humility and Manmade Tradition"

The whole Lenten season especially during the last week have the strong "no meat policy".  Ash Wednesday calls for a no-meat policy.  Catholics are not allowed by their manmade traditions to avoid eating meat on Friday.  However the Bible in 1 Timothy 4:1-3 as hypocrisy which also involve abstaining from MEATS (in the Catholic Bibles, the word "meats" is replaced with "certain foods").  The Judaizers in Colosse have condemned and controlled Christians in such a way, the Inquisition also had many Christians burned at the stake for simply EATING MEAT on the Lenten season "for the great glory of God".  Today it's also still condemned as a heavy sin that will require heavy penance or go to Hell when the Bible says that though a Christian may stumble, they still remain as TRUE believers (Romans 4:5, Ephesians 2:8-10, 1 John 2:19) which for a fact they will be grieved by their sins because God's grace changes lives (Titus 2:11-15).  However so many people in the world today have this "change of flavor" during the Lenten season yet still live in some form of wickedness similar to that of the Pharisees.  Ulrich Zwingli the famous Christian reformer openly ate sausages during Lent to show his freedom in Christ, it was in fact NO SIN to do so compared to the artificial restrictions set by the Council of Trent.

The worship of angels is another issue that still creeps until today.  In Colosse, the Judaizers said that the worship of angels was a necessity.  However to do so is a sin because ONLY GOD DESERVES WORSHIP!  Matthew 4:10 has the Lord Jesus quoting Deuteronomy 6:13 saying only God should be worshiped.  Jesus being God deserves worship, not angels.  Hebrews 1 declares the superiority of the Lord Jesus Christ above all angels for He is the eternal Son of God.  The Roman Catholic institution's manmade rules have diminished the importance of God's omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence when they have added the worship of angels and saints (and even included Mary the earthly mother of Jesus) while saying they do not worship them.  However the very act of not just kneeling but asking favors from certain angels, from certain dead human beings (and besides canonizing of dead people as saints to be prayed to is NOT in the Bible, it is also necromancy) and even to Mary who clearly has NO ROLE in salvation as she refused to mediate between Jesus and the people (John 2:5).  This was all but unnecessary humility as Paul calls it, because God provided only ONE MEDIATOR (mesitEs) between Him and man, the Lord Jesus Christ (1 Timothy 2:5).  This is no ordinary mediation of Christians for each other, this is already between man and God at the DIVINE LEVEL!  In fact, John 10 requires Christians to go to Jesus ALONE and DIRECTLY.  There is no way Mary would approve of people passing through her to Jesus, because she herself had already refused to mediate at the Wedding Feast of Cana, knowing so well that Jesus was God the Son and she was but the vessel of honor, a mere mortal woman, a sinner saved by grace in contrast to the elevations that Romanism has done to her throughout the centuries of deception.