“For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power and authority.” Colossians 2:9-10
In this verse Paul clearly proclaims the Incarnation, the fact that God became a man bodily. The description “bodily form” means Jesus of Nazareth is God in the flesh. This contradicts the Gnostic idea of the inherent evil of physical bodies and the claim that Jesus is merely a spirit. Paul emphasizes the sufficiency of Christ in order to refute the Gnostics and the Judaizers who respectively believed that special knowledge or works were necessary to make a Christian complete. Paul teaches everything that is of God dwells in Christ.
The term “brought to fullness” means a Christian is complete and indicates that Christians have everything they need in Christ. There is nothing that a Christian need add to what was received in Christ at the time of coming to faith.
God’s blessings on your day…