Self-righteous religious people love to make up many rules  and  rituals to burden people under the pretense that these manmade rules and rituals will bring you closer to God and make you more acceptable in His sight. All of these are false teachings and very bad theology.

In this passage, Paul addresses the Gnostic teachers in the church who were trying to get people to regress spiritually.  Here are the false and destructive teaching: Asceticism; Rituals; Special visions; Worship of angels.
Let’s unpack this passage together. Let’s recap what Paul wrote last week… e.g. Therefore…