Colossians #17 - Be Circumspect: The “Appearance of Wisdom”

Colossians 2:20-23 <sup>20 </sup>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:<sup>21 </sup>“Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!”?<sup>22 </sup>These rules, which have to do with things that are all destined to perish with use, are based on merely human commands and teachings.<sup>23 </sup>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.