Posted on 03/05/2019 7:27:04 AM PST by fishtank
The grand prize winning post.
I'm only pointing out that there is an important distinction to be made when the Lord is talking about the Bride, the Groom and the Friends of the Groom.
Yup.
That’s right.
As someone pointed out upthread.
The Bride is not the guests of the bridegroom.
So you are free to reject that interpretation if you want, but it still works.
Church demanded fasting is legalism and is not done for the right motives. That puts it in the category of fulfilling a religious obligation, not a true spiritual discipline that actually brings one into closer relationship with God.
20If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations— 21“Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch” 22(referring to things that all perish as they are used)—according to human precepts and teachings? 23These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but THEY ARE OF NO VALUE in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.—Colossians 2
NO VALUE. So why submit to them?
Distinctions that will be ignored to support church practice.
Jesus did not require fasting of us.
It’s presumed that people will do it. *When you fast*, like *when you pray*, but we are not under the obligations of performing religious rituals for someone appease, please, or somehow connect to God.
Well said.
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