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Does fasting earn blessing from God?
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by BelaynehKassaWubie | July 14, 2010 at 05:58 am
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Christians especially Orthodox Christians fast almost 180 days a year (example in Ethiopia). That is, people above the age of 15 do not eat food for about 7 hours from morning. Some others don’t eat animals products like meat, egg, milk, etc but eat plant products. The Muslims fast solid one month a year from morning to night (at Ramadan). Does fasting earn blessings from God to people?
Although I believe in God, I am reluctant in fasting. This is because the intension of Jesus in his teaching about fasting is ‘fasting from evil things’ like insulting, killing, stealing, etc, etc. There other teachings of Jesus misinterpreted. One example is baptism. According to Jesus, to be baptized means to wear out evil things and have God in heart; this is how I interpret it.
Actually, these days, except the Muslims, most Christians are breaching the fasting doctrine. Priests who were fasting for 9 hours are now reducing it to 7 hours. Ordinary people are not fasting, if not, fasting from animal products only as if a vegetarian. But does fasting create peace with God?
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at 06:33 on July 14th, 2010
What Isaiah 58 says about the kind of fasting God wants.
3 "Yet on the day of your fasting, you do as you please
and exploit all your workers.
4 Your fasting ends in quarreling and strife,
and in striking each other with wicked fists.
You cannot fast as you do today
and expect your voice to be heard on high.
5 Is this the kind of fast I have chosen,
only a day for a man to humble himself?
Is it only for bowing one's head like a reed
and for lying on sackcloth and ashes?
Is that what you call a fast,
a day acceptable to the LORD ?
6 "Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen:
to loose the chains of injustice
and untie the cords of the yoke,
to set the oppressed free
and break every yoke?
7 Is it not to share your food with the hungry
and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter—
when you see the naked, to clothe him,
and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?
8 Then your light will break forth like the dawn,
and your healing will quickly appear;
then your righteousness will go before you,
and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.
9 Then you will call, and the LORD will answer;
you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I.
"If you do away with the yoke of oppression,
with the pointing finger and malicious talk,
10 and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry
and satisfy the needs of the oppressed,
then your light will rise in the darkness,
and your night will become like the noonday.
11 The LORD will guide you always;
he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land
and will strengthen your frame.
You will be like a well-watered garden,
like a spring whose waters never fail.
at 03:05 on July 15th, 2010
Thank you Pat Garcia!! So, fasting should be from bad, evil things and not from food. Right?
at 08:25 on July 15th, 2010
God doesn't exist, so what's the use of discussing whether god would like you to fast? Does Sonic the Hedgehog want you to eat a peanut butter sandwich? Is that a useful question?