8 See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces[a] of this world rather than on Christ.
9 For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, 10 and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power and authority. 11 In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not performed by human hands. Your whole self ruled by the flesh[b] was put off when you were circumcised by[c] Christ, 12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through your faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.
~ Take inventory in your life: where are you tempted to rely on worldly traditions and/or philosophies rather than Christ? If such things contradict or are not grounded in the truth of Christ what does that make them?
~ What type of circumcision described in these verses happens to those who put their faith in Christ? What are the results of this?
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