Religious Fasting.

[floo]

Piss off, Floo, this is way above your head.

Oh dear is that the best you can do when you are trounced? 

[Bubbles]

Religion aside, they reckon fasting can be good for you as it is closer to how your body has evolved to cope with periods of plenty and hunger.

It's even meant to help with diabetes and weight loss

[ad_orientem]

Oh dear is that the best you can do when you are trounced? 

Trounced? Hardly.

[Nearly Sane]

Religion aside, they reckon fasting can be good for you as it is closer to how your body has evolved to cope with periods of plenty and hunger.

It's even meant to help with diabetes and weight loss

I am always suspicious of 'they'. I need to know who 'they' are to evaluate what 'they' are saying.

[Anchorman]

Thanks for the semi-gnostic, iconoclastic drivel.

One of the oldest feasts in the in the calendar is the Annunciation. It is from that that the Church arrived at midwinter for the Nativity. You're talking bollocks again. May I suggest you celebrate Christmas on the 17th of June. Otherwise you're a hypicrite and a blind follower of the traditions of men.

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Please show me in Scriptures - or any letter from 1st century times, where we are ordered to celebrate the Announciation?
Surely, were it so important, it would have appeared in the Didache - the earliest document we have relating to 1st century worship?
It did not.
QED.

[ad_orientem]

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Please show me in Scriptures - or any letter from 1st century times, where we are ordered to celebrate the Announciation?
Surely, were it so important, it would have appeared in the Didache - the earliest document we have relating to 1st century worship?
It did not.
QED.

Then you obviously don't believe it. If you did you would celebrate it. Just as I suspected.

[floo]

Religion aside, they reckon fasting can be good for you as it is closer to how your body has evolved to cope with periods of plenty and hunger.

It's even meant to help with diabetes and weight loss

Fasting should only be done in a very controlled way for health reasons, definitely not for religious ones, imo.

[ad_orientem]

This is Protestantism in a nutshell. It is essentially gnostic and iconoclast. It removes anything physical from its so-called praise, including the creation which God himself created. They should just be honest, go all out and start believing in the demiurge.

[floo]

Then you obviously don't believe it. If you did you would celebrate it. Just as I suspected.

You believe in a flawed tradition which doesn't do anyone any good, including you, if your posts reflect your personality.

[ad_orientem]

You believe in a flawed tradition which doesn't do anyone any good, including you, if your posts reflect your personality.

Didn't I tell you to go away?

[floo]

Didn't I tell you to go away?

 

[Anchorman]

Then you obviously don't believe it. If you did you would celebrate it. Just as I suspected.

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So that means you can find nothing from first - or second century for that matter - material to tell us when to celebrate these events?
Thanks for the (lack of) clarification.
As to belief?
Do I accept God chose a very special young woman to bear Christ?
Yes - as do all Christians.
Do I believe she is any more special now than anyone else who accepts Christ as LORD?
No.

[ad_orientem]

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So that means you can find nothing from first - or second century for that matter - material to tell us when to celebrate these events?
Thanks for the (lack of) clarification.
As to belief?
Do I accept God chose a very special young woman to bear Christ?
Yes - as do all Christians.
Do I believe she is any more special now than anyone else who accepts Christ as LORD?
No.

What a get out clause. Do you celebrate Christmas? And yes, the Annunciation is scriptural. It's in the bloody gospel.

[Anchorman]

What a get out clause. Do you celebrate Christmas? And yes, the Annunciation is scriptural. It's in the bloody gospel.

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Yes I celebrate Christ's Incarnation - were that to be in December, March or September means diddly squat.
As for the annunciation?
I've read Luke's account - even preached on it. I still can't find any indication as to when it happened or that we are to celebrate it, either in Scripture or, for that matter, first century Christian writings.
Can you help, please?

[ad_orientem]

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Yes I celebrate Christ's Incarnation - were that to be in December, March or September means diddly squat.
As for the annunciation?
I've read Luke's account - even preached on it. I still can't find any indication as to when it happened or that we are to celebrate it, either in Scripture or, for that matter, first century Christian writings.
Can you help, please?

Then you're making an excellent argument for you to stop celebrating Christmas too. Stop being so inconsistent.

[Anchorman]

Ah; that'll be a 'no', then. Thanks.

[floo]

Poor Ad-o one does have to feel sorry for the guy, he is so befuddled due to his brain being tainted by his nonsense dogma!

[ad_orientem]

Ah; that'll be a 'no', then. Thanks.

You're avoiding your inconsistency. Celebrating all those feasts is entirely scriptual. They're all to be found in the scriptures.

[ad_orientem]

Poor Ad-o one does have to feel sorry for the guy, he is so befuddled due to his brain being tainted by his nonsense dogma!

What are you still doing here?

[floo]

What are you still doing here?

I hope you are getting help with your undoubted problems, they seem to be getting worse!

[Rhiannon]

Fasting affects blood sugar levels. This in turn can cause light headedness and feeling spaced out. No wonder it is a part of some religious disciplines - it's a very effective way of inducing spiritual experiences.

[Anchorman]

You're avoiding your inconsistency. Celebrating all those feasts is entirely scriptual. They're all to be found in the scriptures.

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So; please provide Chapter and verse to indicate that we should celebrate them.
Apart from Communion, I can find no such references.
Perhaps you can enlighten me?

[ad_orientem]

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So; please provide Chapter and verse to indicate that we should celebrate them.
Apart from Communion, I can find no such references.
Perhaps you can enlighten me?

All those events are in the scriptures. The scriptures don't need to tell us to celebrate them, firstly, because we believe them therefore we celebrate them, secondly, because we do not hold to the sola scriptura heresy.

[Anchorman]

Ah; another 'no', then, ad-o. So there is, in fact, no injunction or instruction in God's word telling us to commemorate anything, other than the Lord's supper. Again, thanks.

[ad_orientem]

Ah; another 'no', then, ad-o. So there is, in fact, no injunction or instruction in God's word telling us to commemorate anything, other than the Lord's supper. Again, thanks.

Only because you hold to the heresy of scripture alone, but all those events are in the scriptures. So, if you believe therefore you celebrate. It really is as simple as that. Don't celebrate, don't believe.