Are You Also Without Understanding?

The danger is that the colossians will subject themselves to ascetic regulations. These regulations are narrowly focused on material objects, and arise from human traditions. They may sound wise like a true form of religion, but they are really characteristic of a religion of human invention. It doesn't deal with the problem of the heart, at the root of the fleshly condition. The new pattern of religion is founded upon the achieved fact of our participation in the resurrection of christ - not some attempt to achieve resurrection for ourselves.