rubbercok3000

I am curious if anyone here has ever replicated the feat of Christ for 40 days and 40 nights? What happend?

Spaz

Yup, without water I died around 10 times

trillian

This guy did....but he won't be doing it again!!!

http://www.newstribune.com/stories/0...0823990030.asp

JEST2ASK

Interesting point (to me anyways ) in Mark 1:12-14 it does not say he was without food / water (...and the angels ministered unto Him) in Matthew (4:1 -2) states simply he was hungry afterwards only Luke (4:1-2) states specifically he was without Food / Water I mention this because some say spirtual fasting does not necessarily mean total deprivation ...ie a restricted diet no meat / or certain other unclean food stuffs ... or i.e. Muslims no eating during daylight hours...


Oh and the outback wanderer .... unfortunately typical American... note the response hey you guys were looking for me ?

Eric H

I feel that you can look at fasting in many ways, Every lent I try and give up something I really enjoy for myself; and that is drink.

Drink is something many people can become addicted to. When lent comes I know that I will have a struggle to stay of drink. But after lent I feel so much stronger because I know that I can control my drinking on a voluntary basis. I can then enjoy drinking again, and I am in control, one positive aspect of fasting is when it becomes an exercise of the mind.

peace

Eric

Darth Dane

Gandhiji, fasted for 90 days when the riots wouldn't stop.

He only had water and lime juice afaik. Yes he was weak at the end, but it is possible to do this.

I personnally have fasted for 72 hours.




DD - Love

abe smith

At an earlier (recent) thread about fasting: the furthest I got was 21, (I think it was) straight days; on nothing but plain black tea, no milk nor other additives. And one only cheating in that period: I ate from the can, unmodified, at one sitting, a 6 oz can of tunafish; at about the 15th? day.

It may be of interest to point out that Roman Catholic specifications for (e.g. Lenten = 40 days) fasting & abstinance DO NOT count the (Lenten) *SUNDAYS * as part of the 40 days. Check out the calendar to prove this.
If Jesus was an Orthodox observing Jew at the time of his alleged 40-day fast in the wilderness, he also may not have included the SABBATHS as fast days; because the inescapable Jewish law is that the Sabbath is a holy day of celebration (every 7 days) & that NOT to celebrate it w/ feasting & merriment is a profanation.
For RCs, the not-including-Sundays rule means that you can eat etc what you like on Sundays; doing that does not infract the Lenten rule. (which has been so much modified in the last half-century as to be virtually-meaningless by now.)
And furthermore you can OUTLIVE being bound by the rule.

abe smith

umm... Many enthusiastes new to certain appealing religious
practises would like very much to um do the magnificent stuff...
for whatever their motives may be.
About this, I recall the RC joke about the new convert lady who asked her confessor if it would be all right for her to wear a (penitent's) hair-shirt? (beat:) and her confessor said , "Um. Well, all right. .... Wear it on the OUTSIDE." ( if you see the point?)
Uh. What do folks who think about fasting want to fast FOR?

Viti

What do you mean by fasting anyway? You will die with no liquids in about a week or so...but millions of people around the world go 40 days without eating (or eating very little).

The saddest thing is people right here in the US who starve themselves out of poor self esteem...I am sure it takes more than 40 days to look like this

braces_for_impact

I did it, and Satan came and showed me the wonder and glory of all the world. He said I could have it all if I just worshipped him.

Needless to say, I took the deal and ran.

I think I got ripped off.