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I'm really struggling with fasting

LanaPodesta said:
I'm really struggling with the Nativity fast
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I have to say, I admire the commitment to wanting to Fast during the holiday season. In the States, it’s generally understood even by the church as a time of feasting, so much so that I’ve been putting off posting a study on fasting because it just doesn’t seem like it would witness to many people’s spirits right now.

As for fasting itself, it is a conditioning of the body, much like jogging or exercise. And since the latter portion is more strenuous, I’d just do my best this year and put it down to memory to be ready for kicking it into high gear after December 12th.

Blessings in Christ, and thanks for posting, I was not aware of this tradition.
- H
 
Hidden In Him said:
I have to say, I admire the commitment to wanting to Fast during the holiday season. In the States, it’s generally understood even by the church as a time of feasting, so much so that I’ve been putting off posting a study on fasting because it just doesn’t seem like it would witness to many people’s spirits right now.

As for fasting itself, it is a conditioning of the body, much like jogging or exercise. And since the latter portion is more strenuous, I’d just do my best this year and put it down to memory to be ready for kicking it into high gear after December 12th.

Blessings in Christ, and thanks for posting, I was not aware of this tradition.
- H
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do you fast as well?
 
Anytime you deny the flesh its desires is an exercise of the spirit.
 
LeviR said:
Anytime you deny the flesh its desires is an exercise of the spirit.
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Fasting goes hand in hand with feasting, you eat real food with sufficient fat, protein and minerals when you feast, then you will be able to fast without hunger. If you eat ultraprocessed food high in sugar, starch and salt, your blood glucose will be spiked then it quickly crashes, and you'll feel hungry, your mind will even go groggy, and it's hard to think about anything but food. Exercise of the spirit is not exercise of sheer will power against your own body, that's dualistic gnosticism.
 
Carry_Your_Name said:
Fasting goes hand in hand with feasting, you eat real food with sufficient fat, protein and minerals when you feast, then you will be able to fast without hunger. If you eat ultraprocessed food high in sugar, starch and salt, your blood glucose will be spiked then it quickly crashes, and you'll feel hungry, your mind will even go groggy, and it's hard to think about anything but food. Exercise of the spirit is not exercise of sheer will power against your own body, that's dualistic gnosticism.
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Yeah, it’s all temporal.
 
Carry_Your_Name said:
Fasting goes hand in hand with feasting, you eat real food with sufficient fat, protein and minerals when you feast, then you will be able to fast without hunger. If you eat ultraprocessed food high in sugar, starch and salt, your blood glucose will be spiked then it quickly crashes, and you'll feel hungry, your mind will even go groggy, and it's hard to think about anything but food. Exercise of the spirit is not exercise of sheer will power against your own body, that's dualistic gnosticism.
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Who do you suppose let that gnostic Paul write scripture anyway.?
What a fraud.
Can you believe he said that in his flesh dwells no good thing. And that the flesh wars against the spirt. That they are contrary to one another. And if you walk in the spirit you will not fulfill the desires of the flesh.

What a gnostic he is.

I much prefer what you say. You got the right stuf.

Have you written a book yet?
 
LeviR said:
Who do you suppose let that gnostic Paul write scripture anyway.?
What a fraud.
Can you believe he said that in his flesh dwells no good thing. And that the flesh wars against the spirt. That they are contrary to one another. And if you walk in the spirit you will not fulfill the desires of the flesh.

What a gnostic he is.

I much prefer what you say. You got the right stuf.

Have you written a book yet?
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Paul's not gnostic, he also wrote that no one hates his own body but nourishes it, and the body being a temple in which the holy spirit dwells. I'm only against the false dichotomy that you're either overweight or anorexic, you either binge eat all the time as a coping mechanism or you worship thinness so much so that you starve yourself as though you're on crack. Jesus warned about fasting for publicity to the extent of disfiguring themselves, the modern equivalent of that would be eating disorder caused by either excessive fasting or excessive feasting, any kind of body image obsession, any kind of strict calorie counting following a fad diet, any kind of hunger strike for nothing but publicity, etc.
 
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Hidden In Him said:
Yes I do, but it's not structured fasting like the ancient forms of Christianity favored, and that may be a failure on my part as well. I engage in long fasts when I can, and would prefer to keep more of a fasted lifestyle if I could.
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What about what the Church says?
 
Carry_Your_Name said:
Paul's not gnostic, he also wrote that no one hates his own body but nourishes it, and the body being a temple in which the holy spirit dwells.
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Correct. Gnosticism also taught an intense hatred for the God of the Old Testament, and Paul taught that Christ Jesus WAS the God of the Old Testament.

Any claim that Paul was Gnostic is unfortunately highly misinformed.
 
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