Believe in Jesus: That no one enslaves you by means of the worthless deceit of human wisdom. Colossians 2:8

The Epistle to the Colossians is a didactic letter addressed by the apostle Paul to a Church located near Ephesus in Asia Minor. In this epistle, it can be observed one of the greatest problems that existed during the development of the early Church while the science of theology was still in formation, and this problem was the influence of pagan heresies on Christianity. At that time, the divinity of Christ was in doubt, and the transmission of the events of Jesus' life was fundamentally oral, Paul's letters were written between 30 and 70 AD, and the first gospels appeared only after the 1st century AD, this meant that the teaching of the christian faith in the different Churches depended on each teacher, thus creating situations of great confusion, and this was what Paul was not willing to allow.
Paul in his epistle to the Colossians showed Jesus as God made flesh, that is, made man in the world, and not as an angelic being, this is why the apostle Paul wrote with wisdom: "Christ is the visible likeness of the invisible God. He is the first-born Son, superior to all created things. For through him God created everything in heaven and on earth" Colossians 1:15-16. Is presumable that these statements were intended to discredit the gnostic Christianism without saying so openly, a spiritual synthesis that probably began when Christianity arrived in Antioch.
Paul especially called the Christians of the city of Colossae to believe in Jesus as the "son of man" and so he also urged these faithful to reject all worldly wisdom, which aspired at that time to give all the explanations of how the world was, and so he also warned: "That no one enslaves you by means of the worthless deceit of human wisdom" Colossians 2:8.
In Paul's thinking, faith is a spiritual war to reach that true treasure that is the mystery of Christ, a treasure for which every Christian must confront the lies and deception of those who are given over to the pleasures of the world.

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