歌羅西書2:16-23

2:16 所以，不拘在飲食上，或節期、月朔、安息日都不可讓人論斷你們。
2:17 這些原是後事的影兒；那形體卻是基督。
2:18 不可讓人因著故意謙虛和敬拜天使，就奪去你們的獎賞。這等人拘泥在所見過的（有古卷：這等人窺察所沒有見過的），隨著自己的慾心，無故地自高自大，
2:19 不持定元首。全身既然靠著他，筋節得以相助聯絡，就因上帝大得長進。
2:20 你們若是與基督同死，脫離了世上的小學，為甚麼仍像在世俗中活著、服從那「不可拿、不可嘗、不可摸」等類的規條呢？
2:21 【併於上節】
2:22 這都是照人所吩咐、所教導的。說到這一切，正用的時候就都敗壞了。
2:23 這些規條使人徒有智慧之名，用私意崇拜，自表謙卑，苦待己身，其實在克制肉體的情慾上是毫無功效。

¹⁶ Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. ¹⁷ These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ. ¹⁸ Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you. Such a person also goes into great detail about what they have seen; they are puffed up with idle notions by their unspiritual mind. ¹⁹ They have lost connection with the head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow.
²⁰ Since you died with Christ to the elemental spiritual forces of this world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its rules: ²¹ “Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!”? ²² These rules, which have to do with things that are all destined to perish with use, are based on merely human commands and teachings. ²³ Such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility and their harsh treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence.

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    保羅說到一個基督信仰的重點：「你們若是與基督同死，脫離了世上的小學，為甚麼仍像在世俗中活著、服從那『不可拿、不可嘗、不可摸』等類的規條呢？」

    這裡所說的「世俗」不是一般人所說的「世俗化」，而是指社會中的「風俗習慣」，也就是所謂的「禁忌」！有人以為「禁忌」是文明進步的表現，是受教會的人，不守「禁忌」的人會被看做「野蠻人」！

    然而保羅的教導卻要告訴信徒不又受「禁忌」影響，因為這些無法使我們更敬畏上帝，正如保羅說：「這都是照人所吩咐、所教導的。說到這一切，正用的時候就都敗壞了。這些規條使人徒有智慧之名，用私意崇拜，自表謙卑，苦待己身，其實在克制肉體的情慾上是毫無功效。」

    所以，基督徒不要受任何「禁忌」綑綁，要以聖經的教導為依歸，甚至教會的法規也要以聖經的原則為依歸！我們要為基督的緣故，破除「禁忌」，教會才能真正進步！因為，耶穌基督已經從死裡復活，破除一切的咒詛了！