“And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.”
If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations — the rhetorical question exposes inconsistency: they died (apothnēskō) with Christ from 'elemental spirits' (stoicheia kosmou, the cosmic-spiritual powers false teachers serve). Yet they still live (zaō) under worldly regulations (dogma, decrees). The contradiction is stark: Christ-death to powers contradicts submission to human rules.
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