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About Paul's letter to the Colossians
Colossae was a city in the Roman region called Asia. #1:0 Rome was an important city in the world at the time of Jesus. It was a powerful city and it had a strong army. The Romans ruled many other countries and they made the people obey the laws of Rome. They made them pay taxes to Rome. Asia was the south and west part of the country that we now call Turkey. When Paul wrote this letter, the Roman people were very powerful. They ruled many countries. Rome is the capital of the country that we now call Italy.
We think that Paul himself never visited Colossae. Instead, a man called Epaphras went there to tell the good news about Jesus Christ to the people. #1:0 Christ is a name for Jesus in the Greek language that means the same as Messiah in the Hebrew language. It means someone that God chose as a special king for his people.
After that, when Paul was in a prison, Epaphras visited him. Epaphras told Paul the news about the Christians who lived at Colossae. Then Paul wrote this letter to them while he was still in the prison.
Epaphras had told Paul that false teachers were teaching wrong things to the Christians at Colossae. The false teachers were saying that Christians must obey the same rules that God told the Jews to obey. #1:0 A Jew was someone who belonged to the Israelite tribe of Judah. The name was first used at the time of their exile in Babylon. The people of Israel who still remain after that time are called Jews. Also, they were teaching other wrong ideas.
So Paul tells the Christians that they should not believe those false teachers. Only Jesus Christ can save us from all the wrong things that we do. Jesus made the world. And he wants to save the people who live in it. We need to believe in him. Then, in our spirits, we die with Christ and we become alive again with him. We become new people, with a new nature.
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About Paul's letter to the Colossians
Colossae was a city in the Roman region called Asia. #1:0 Rome was an important city in the world at the time of Jesus. It was a powerful city and it had a strong army. The Romans ruled many other countries and they made the people obey the laws of Rome. They made them pay taxes to Rome. Asia was the south and west part of the country that we now call Turkey. When Paul wrote this letter, the Roman people were very powerful. They ruled many countries. Rome is the capital of the country that we now call Italy.
We think that Paul himself never visited Colossae. Instead, a man called Epaphras went there to tell the good news about Jesus Christ to the people. #1:0 Christ is a name for Jesus in the Greek language that means the same as Messiah in the Hebrew language. It means someone that God chose as a special king for his people.
After that, when Paul was in a prison, Epaphras visited him. Epaphras told Paul the news about the Christians who lived at Colossae. Then Paul wrote this letter to them while he was still in the prison.
Epaphras had told Paul that false teachers were teaching wrong things to the Christians at Colossae. The false teachers were saying that Christians must obey the same rules that God told the Jews to obey. #1:0 A Jew was someone who belonged to the Israelite tribe of Judah. The name was first used at the time of their exile in Babylon. The people of Israel who still remain after that time are called Jews. Also, they were teaching other wrong ideas.
So Paul tells the Christians that they should not believe those false teachers. Only Jesus Christ can save us from all the wrong things that we do. Jesus made the world. And he wants to save the people who live in it. We need to believe in him. Then, in our spirits, we die with Christ and we become alive again with him. We become new people, with a new nature.
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