Whose hand wrote 'the document that listed my transgressions' ? (Colossians 2:14) This is a question in regard to Trinitarian, Protestant, reformed, baptist doctrine.
In Colossians 2:14 Paul states :

Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; [KJV]

This I understand. God's writing (by the finger of God) on tables of stone, which was contrary to me (as born in Adam) was nailed to the cross and thus was taken 'out of the way'. The original states 'out of the midst of us' which I better understand for it alludes to the tree of life being present in the midst of the garden. With the removal of the commandments (which, like Paul, I found to be a 'ministration of death') Christ, himself, is in the midst.
But some versions translate χειρογραφον τοις δογμασιν [TR undisputed] - instead of 'handwriting of ordinances' as ' the certificate of debt consisting of decrees', or 'the record of the charges against us '.
By this addition (instead of 'the decree', they are adding 'the debt against that decreed') they are disputing that the decrees themselves are nailed to the cross, only the debts of transgressions against those decrees (they say) being so nailed.
This translation supports the idea that Christians, once converted, are to keep the law. Whereas many scriptures state that, for example 'we are dead to the law by the body of Christ'. In order to retain the law, this translation cannot allow the law to be nailed to the cross.
They must translate the text in such a way that something else (other than that which God wrote by hand) is nailed to the cross.
What mystifies me is the matter of 'handwriting'. These translations are saying that there existed, somewhere, a handwritten copy of all the sins and transgressions I ever committed. And that this handwritten copy of my sinful deeds was nailed to the cross - before I existed and before I had committed the deeds which were written (by hand).
The 'handwriting of ordinances' (written by the finger of God) I can understand being nailed to the cross, as it is a spiritual expression of the body of Jesus and what he represents in his death. It clearly expresses what was actually written down (on earth) and what was actually written by hand (the finger of God). And then sees that item, spiritually, involved in Christ's death.
But the idea of a handwritten copy of my own deeds is not clear.
Whose hand wrote it ?
Where was it kept, before being nailed ?
The word &quot;cheirographon&quot; (χειρόγραφον) appears only once in the Bible.
A literal translation is &quot;handwriting&quot;, but that's not necessarily what it means in practical usage.
(cf. &quot;chairman&quot; or &quot;pineapple&quot; or even &quot;carpet&quot; in English).
Its meaning must be understood from other sources.
The Outline of Biblical Usage says that the word can mean:

a note of hand or writing in which one acknowledges that money has either been deposited with him or lent to him by another, to be returned at the appointed time

Strong's says it can mean:

a manuscript (specially, a legal document or bond (figuratively))

Thayer's Greek Lexicon says:

specifically, a note of hand, or writing in which one acknowledges that money has either been deposited with him or lent to him by another, to he returned at an appointed time (Tobit 5:3 Tobit 9:5; Plutarch, mor., p. 829 a. de vitand. aere al. 4, 3; Artemidorus Daldianus, oneir. 3, 40);
metaphorically, applied in Colossians 2:14 ((where R. V. bond)) to the Mosaic law, which shews men to be chargeable with offences for which they must pay the penalty.

The common element is not whether it was written by hand (and 2000 years ago they didn't have typewriters or laser printers, so how else could it be written), but that it refers to a legal document.
In English we have &quot;writ of execution&quot;, which is a legal order issued by a court.
The word &quot;writ&quot; literally means &quot;written&quot;, but that it is written is irrelevant to the meaning, and in fact it could be machine-printed from digital data on a computer.
The obvious conclusion is that &quot;cheirographon&quot; should be understood as meaning &quot;IOU&quot; or &quot;certificate of debt&quot;.
There is no justification to attaching significance to the individual parts of the word.
Saying that it was &quot;nailed to the cross&quot; is simply a metaphor.
The idea is that in being literally nailed to the cross, Jesus took that IOU and paid it for you.
By no means does it mean that you can now continue to take money from the moneylender without incurring new debt.