Emphasis Preaching Journal

We are unsure of exactly what heresies or sub-Christian practices troubled the church at Colossae. In Paul's first chapter, we have some indication that the heresies there clustered around their misunderstanding of Christ and his work. Could their false doctrine have been some sort of gnosticism where Christ "appeared" to be a man? Gnostics were certain that God could never become flesh. Paul made it clear in his first chapter that Christ was the centerpiece of the church and all its work. Twice the apostle used the same word when he talked about the work of Christ.