[YogicCowboy]

The whole “New Age” canard is also used against fasting.
Matthew 6 uses the same language in the same context to speak of praying, tithing, and fasting.
Praying? Check. (We want you thinking about God about us.)
Tithing? Check. (We want you sacrificing for God and us.)
Fasting? Uh-uh. Works righteousness! New Age heresy!
Jesus Christ fasted. That is all I need to know.
(I once asked a pastor to preach a sermon on fasting, since I had never in my life heard one - whereas I had heard many on praying and tithing. He flatly refused.)
It is since I first started fasting for purely spiritual reasons that I learned of the many potential health benefits to be gained from fasting. (However, in today’s toxic world, with unhealthy bodies, it needs to be done cautiously. Since no Christian books teach it adequately, one needs to learn from secular books on fasting for health purposes.)

[Elsie]

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

Since no Christian books teach it adequately, one needs to learn from secular books on fasting for health purposes.)

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