Paul accused of being against the law

Rumors were going around amongst the new believers. "Paul says we are not supposed to do anything that Moses said. We're not supposed to do any of the religious customs Moses taught us to follow." Paul agreed there was need to defend himself, so he did it in both word and action.

When he had greeted them, he told in detail those things which God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.

And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord. And they said to him, “You see, brother, how many myriads of Jews there are who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law; but they have been informed about you that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise their children nor to walk according to the customs. What then? The assembly must certainly meet, for they will hear that you have come.

Therefore do what we tell you: We have four men who have taken a vow. Take them and be purified with them, and pay their expenses so that they may shave their heads, and that all may know that those things of which they were informed concerning you are nothing, but that you yourself also walk orderly and keep the law.

Then Paul took the men, and the next day, having been purified with them, entered the temple to announce the expiration of the days of purification, at which time an offering should be made for each one of them.

Acts 21:19-24, 26 NKJV

Not only did Paul show that the writings of Moses were not passe', but in his defense before Felix, the cruel Roman governor, he said,

Nor can they prove the things of which they now accuse me. But this I confess to you, that according to the Way which they call a sect, so I worship the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the Law and in the Prophets.

Acts 24:13,14 NKJV

Paul was following the Way, the new Christian belief, but he also continued to believe "all things" written in the Law and the Prophets. Taking these words of Paul into account when we read Colossians 2, we can see that in no way did he mean that commandments and statues, given by God to Moses, were nailed to the cross.