Fascinating translation you are using here. I must respectfully disagree with this teaching.
So if I "Deny myself", accept who I truly am, and follow the instructions created by the Word which became Flesh as He tells me to do, then I have lost connection with the Head.
But if I reject His instruction, and follow the instructions of this religion or that religion, then I have NOT lost connection with the Head?
So if I submit myself to the same "Walk" that Jesus walked, as the Bible says I should do, I am dishonoring God, I am engaging in a "False Humility". But if I reject the instructions God created for man, and follow this religion or that religion, I am accepted by the Head.
I think you might compare some translations here 7.
Col. 2:
16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath
days:
17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body (of) Christ. "Of" is an added word here. It wasn't in the original manuscript. If you take this "of" out as it was intended, it reads like this.
16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath
days:
17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body of Christ.
So let no man judge me but the body of Christ. Who is the Body of Christ? Jesus is the Head, and Abraham, Moses, Jeremiah, Paul, Zechariahs, David, Samuel, Nathan, Peter. Are these all not the "body of Christ"?
If Jesus, the Word which became Flesh, created something Holy, and I Glorify Him by also accepting His creation as Holy, should I let some religious man or voice of a serpent,(As Eve illustrated) convince me otherwise? His Works are shadows of things to come, man's religious traditions are "Shadows of nothing".
18 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen,
vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
20 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ
from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
21 (Touch not; taste not; handle not;
22 Which all are to perish with the using
after the commandments and doctrines of men?
So I must respectfully disagree with your translation, and your understanding of these scriptures. God's Sabbaths, Passover, Feast of Unleavened bread, etc., these are the Feasts of the Word which became Flesh, they are not man made commandments or doctrines.
Lev. 23:
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,
Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim
to be holy convocations,
even these
are my feasts.
3 Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day
is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work
therein: it
is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.
4 These are the feasts of the LORD,
even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.
So how is it that religious men preach that His Sabbaths are "Commandments and Doctrines" of men, when Jesus, as the Word, says they are His?
I never understood how religious man could use this chapter to promote the rejection of the Christ's Sabbath and Holy Days, given what it actually says, and given the rest of the Bible.
I believe these scriptures promote understanding the difference between "Tradition of man", "Rudiments of the World" and Instructions and Commandments of God.
8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world,
and not after Christ.