Fasting in the Bible?

[Sevenseas]

 

Hey Enoob....thank you for re-replying   (I think I just coined a new word)

Will you put your likeness on that coin? Hugs

 

 

 

 

I don't do quarters....

[enoob57]

any chance of enlightenment of what you do...................do

Notice of careful engineering of the sentence above

[Sevenseas]

any chance of enlightenment of what you do...................do

Notice of careful engineering of the sentence above

 

 

oooo......well, start with 50's...yes...I noticed the engineering feet feat...1000's are even better....they are rare round these here parts

[enoob57]

Parents need to teach their little girls to speak in smaller denominations

Ya know like one or two, maybe three ... four on very rare occasions

[enoob57]

which brings up fasting
Look how fast money goes nowadays....

[Sevenseas]

we are going to be slapped with a git back on track here in a mo, bro.....but you are funny! 

[enoob57]

They always instinctively know how to get what they want

[EnochBethany]

The scripture addressed to the Church begins mostly at Acts 2.  Before that there is Israel & the Kingdom Announcement:  Repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand.  (The Church is mentioned in Mat 16 & 18; also some of the latter part of John anticipates the Church.)

 

Thus, if anyone knows of a verse on fasting which commands fasting to the Church, kindly post it.  I am not aware of any such verse. 

 

On the subject of fasting, textual family makes a difference.  The later manuscripts reflected in the Textus Receptus & the KJV have more on fasting than the older manuscripts have.  Most famously when the Lord Jesus came down from the Mt of Transfiguration, the apostles had been unable to cure a boy.  The Lord Jesus remarked to them that this kind goes out only by prayer.  KJV adds, "and fasting."  Yet no fasting took place before the cure, indicating that "and fasting" is not part of God's Word here.

 

Another factor:  sometimes the same word translated "fast" refers to simply not eating (as for lack of food), instead of a religious or spiritual discipline. 

 

So, if anyone has a commandment to the Church to fast, please post it & educate us.

[Sevenseas]

 

 

Thus, if anyone knows of a verse on fasting which commands fasting to the Church, kindly post it.  I am not aware of any such verse. 

 

 

 

So, if anyone has a commandment to the Church to fast, please post it & educate us.

 

 

 

this is the op:  Is fasting mentioned in the Bible? What is it?

 

Jesus seems to think we will fast.  I guess that as He thought we would, He did not command it

 

Matthew 6:16-18

¹⁶ “And when you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. ¹⁷ But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,¹⁸ that your fasting may not be seen by others but by your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

 

 

 

God gives us freedom to make choices.  If we need a commandment for every thing we follow or are led to do by His Spirit, do we have the freedom in Christ to make those choices?

If someone does fast, they are certainly within biblically designed and obviously and generously provided guidelines by the inspired word of God.  

 

At any rate, you are free to fast or not to fast.  That, is between your Lord and yourself.  Incidentally, no one in this thread has stated there exists a commandment to fast.

 

To quote someone:  "When wisdom degenerates to rationalisnm, our walk with God is reduced to an intellectual pursuit rather than a living relationship." 

 

If one must needs fulfill an obligaton by command, then where is the joy and the love?

 

I'm not really asking.

[enoob57]

I am glad law came first so that we know because of sin a organized boundary must be set forth

to judge that sin... but that which you speak of 'IS' Spirit and Life going into the time of Newness where sin and

the conception of sin 'IS' no more 'The Eternal State' ... Love, Steven