Fasting and Ashes? >>8569870

"Food will not commend us to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do."

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+8%3A8&version=ESV

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 people to humble themselves? Is it only for bowing one’s head like a reed and for lying in 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 them, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?

https://www.biblestudytools.com/isaiah/passage/?q=isaiah+58:3-7

>>8570317

Dead-lifting, hamburgers, and the Good Lord (not in that order).

God didn't put you here to starve yourself, and He didn't put you here to check out for 3 days sleeping/meditating and trying to be a shaman.

He put you here to help others. Hard to do that when you're in a shutdown state.

>>8570372

>So Christ wasted his time in the Garden?

You took a big leap from what I said.

>Do you work every day with never a vacation?

When a person vacations, they can still help other vacationers, quite simply.

When a person is malnourished in a meditative state for days, it would seem they can't be very helpful to others.