"the Daniel fast"... and what it did for me...
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In Biblical times, once you had sex with the person you were espoused to (engaged to) that was how you became married in God's eyes. There were no licenses, elaborate ceremonies or anything like today's traditions. Today it is the same. When you have sex with somebody you are spiritually marrying them.
Nowadays I do believe it wise for couples to make the commitment to abstain only because if things don't go well during an engagement at least you can leave the relationship without having had that "next level bond" so to speak.
Anyways, I applaud the Daniel Fast and I am going to try it. All technicalities aside, if it worked it worked!
Congrats on your weight loss!
Do I get spiritual alimony from all those partners, then?
You must be spiritually wealthy!
Can I spiritually pay off my credit card?
With your past, I bet you could pay off everyone's!
Are you calling her a harlot?
Only spiritually, though. I need to figure out how to get my spiritual prostitution payments to be actual. Would going to church help?
Start going to church and stop consuming alcohol. It is all about sacrifice.
Don't get crazy, here. There's wine at Catholic churches.
It is spiritually transmuted into blood.
If I spill wine does that mean I have blood on my hands?
It depends...did you spill it on your hands?
But what if I wash my hands after? Does that make me Pontius Pilate?
You killed Jesus?
No, but I created pilates.
You can double your results if you do the Daniel fast, combined with Pontius Pilates.
How do you think Jesus got so ripped?0 -
Where all my Muslims at? Can I get some shouts for Ramadan?!0
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It would lower teen pregnancy rate as well as lower the amount of tax dollars going into helping this teen. It would also prevent STDs from spreading.... The only way their personal life would affect the community is through the amount of governmental support (tax dollars)
Abstinence "education" has done the complete opposite. Also, when teens get pregnant, they don't always carry to term or become mothers......
Abstinence is a choice. NOT an obligation. The ONLY way to lower pregnancy and STD rates is through PROPER condom and birth control usage.0 -
I am usually impressed when a Christian even knows about the New Covenant tbh. They largely do not know or understand their own Scripture.
I dated a guy once whose family was insisting I go through RCMA to be Catholic (my mom is, but she left the church before I was born). These were pretty awful people, in general. but also idiots. I got into a "discussion" with his mother about whether the Immaculate Conception referred to Christ's conception or Mary's. She was adament it was Christ's conception (even though the Feat of the Immaculate Conception is Dec. 6 and Christ's supposed birthday is Dec. 25 -- how long was she pregnant???).
She went to her priest. Guess who was right?0 -
In Biblical times, once you had sex with the person you were espoused to (engaged to) that was how you became married in God's eyes. There were no licenses, elaborate ceremonies or anything like today's traditions. Today it is the same. When you have sex with somebody you are spiritually marrying them.
Nowadays I do believe it wise for couples to make the commitment to abstain only because if things don't go well during an engagement at least you can leave the relationship without having had that "next level bond" so to speak.
Anyways, I applaud the Daniel Fast and I am going to try it. All technicalities aside, if it worked it worked!
Congrats on your weight loss!
Do I get spiritual alimony from all those partners, then?
You must be spiritually wealthy!
Can I spiritually pay off my credit card?
With your past, I bet you could pay off everyone's!
Are you calling her a harlot?
Only spiritually, though. I need to figure out how to get my spiritual prostitution payments to be actual. Would going to church help?
Start going to church and stop consuming alcohol. It is all about sacrifice.
Don't get crazy, here. There's wine at Catholic churches.
It is spiritually transmuted into blood.
If I spill wine does that mean I have blood on my hands?
It depends...did you spill it on your hands?
But what if I wash my hands after? Does that make me Pontius Pilate?
You killed Jesus?
No, but I created pilates.
You can double your results if you do the Daniel fast, combined with Pontius Pilates.
How do you think Jesus got so ripped?
By making the first Walking DVD.0 -
It would lower teen pregnancy rate as well as lower the amount of tax dollars going into helping this teen. It would also prevent STDs from spreading.... The only way their personal life would affect the community is through the amount of governmental support (tax dollars)
No it wouldnt, lol.
Sex education is a better way to prevent those things, along with more readily available sexual health services.
pass out condoms in schools and let's see what happens to the teen pregnancy rate0 -
According to people who post right her on the MFP boards, this is the case. And they know everything.
EXCEPT for Adam and Eve and the Ten Commandments.
That's not in the 10 Commandments. :-)It's ok...ignorant people say stupid things. If you believe in God and the bible (and you can't say you believe in God if you dont believe his word), then you know what happened to Daniel in the Lions Den and why, you know what fasting means and why we do it, you know what sexual impurity is and what it means, you know what Gd says about marriage and sex before marriage. If you dont know, then you're ignorant. If you want to know, go read the WORD! If you don't want to know, then don't ask. The sad thing is that you want to know, but you don't like the answer because it doesnt sit well with your soul, and it means having to raise your standards and be responsible with the truth you've been given (God's word), but that would just be too much for you and so you take to sarcasm and slander in order to make yourself feel better. Good luck with that.
OP - Obviously, you did something right! It worked and praise God for it!
The Bible also says that if I get raped I am required to marry my rapist or be put to death, and if I'm married and my husband dies I have to marry his brother. GOD'S WORD!!! I don't think you should be calling other people ignorant when your book is FULL of inconsistencies and you've only bothered to read the selected sections that fit with your world view. Also, I hope you don't eat swine or wear cotton and linen together, you might be smote.
Isn't there something about eating seafood aswell in the 10 commandments? I'll be checking diaries!!!!
But the 10 Commandments are the only pasrt of the Old Testament Christians have to follow, I'm told. They ignore the rest. Something about a new covenent.
The New Covenant effectively invalidated the entire Old Testament.
I will have to check scripture before I agree or disagree. I was under the impression that the New Covenant supercedes the 10 Commandments.
I went back and checked. I'm pretty sure that pillaging is okay now . . . that and murder. God's good with murder now . . .0 -
The PRACTICE of abstinence will eliminate your possibility of teen pregnancy. Whether the education works is an entirely different matter. People are people.It would lower teen pregnancy rate as well as lower the amount of tax dollars going into helping this teen. It would also prevent STDs from spreading.... The only way their personal life would affect the community is through the amount of governmental support (tax dollars)
Abstinence only sex education and practice certainly has a stunning track record on teen pregnancies!
That said, My mom and cousin did the daniel fast one year and thought it was very beneficial from a spiritual perspective. Weight lost on these types of fasts tends to be short lived if you return to your prior eating habits.
I think it's generally understood that Jesus was probably born in the spring. Things are often not celebrated on the days they actually are presumed to have happened. I'm not catholic so I can't speak to the rest.Christ's supposed birthday is Dec. 25 -- how long was she pregnant???).
To the OP, I commend you for your attempts to live up to your ideals.0 -
It would lower teen pregnancy rate as well as lower the amount of tax dollars going into helping this teen. It would also prevent STDs from spreading.... The only way their personal life would affect the community is through the amount of governmental support (tax dollars)
No it wouldnt, lol.
Sex education is a better way to prevent those things, along with more readily available sexual health services.
pass out condoms in schools and let's see what happens to the teen pregnancy rate
If passed out, they become balloon animals.0 -
The PRACTICE of abstinence will eliminate your possibility of teen pregnancy. Whether the education works is an entirely different matter. People are people.It would lower teen pregnancy rate as well as lower the amount of tax dollars going into helping this teen. It would also prevent STDs from spreading.... The only way their personal life would affect the community is through the amount of governmental support (tax dollars)
Abstinence only sex education and practice certainly has a stunning track record on teen pregnancies!
That said, My mom and cousin did the daniel fast one year and thought it was very beneficial from a spiritual perspective. Weight lost on these types of fasts tends to be short lived if you return to your prior eating habits.
As a spiritual practice, I can see it being very beneficial.0 -
Where all my Muslims at? Can I get some shouts for Ramadan?!
ramadan is over! but in any case ramadan mubarak
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'Cause teen boys are SO on board with using condoms ...It would lower teen pregnancy rate as well as lower the amount of tax dollars going into helping this teen. It would also prevent STDs from spreading.... The only way their personal life would affect the community is through the amount of governmental support (tax dollars)
No it wouldnt, lol.
Sex education is a better way to prevent those things, along with more readily available sexual health services.
pass out condoms in schools and let's see what happens to the teen pregnancy rate
Teenagers are idiots. We were allidiots when we were teenagers. They do dumb things. Some get lucky and come out unscathed. But teens have been having sex since the first one crawled out of the ooze.0 -
It would lower teen pregnancy rate as well as lower the amount of tax dollars going into helping this teen. It would also prevent STDs from spreading.... The only way their personal life would affect the community is through the amount of governmental support (tax dollars)
No it wouldnt, lol.
Sex education is a better way to prevent those things, along with more readily available sexual health services.
pass out condoms in schools and let's see what happens to the teen pregnancy rate
It would make study period more fun?0 -
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It would lower teen pregnancy rate as well as lower the amount of tax dollars going into helping this teen. It would also prevent STDs from spreading.... The only way their personal life would affect the community is through the amount of governmental support (tax dollars)
No it wouldnt, lol.
Sex education is a better way to prevent those things, along with more readily available sexual health services.
pass out condoms in schools and let's see what happens to the teen pregnancy rate
If passed out, they become balloon animals.
I always pass out after sex0 -
What the hell is going on in here?0
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Shenanigans.What the hell is going on in here?0 -
I pass out during.
Then I wake up and run out into the street screaming "RUPHALYN! HE ROOFIED ME!"
Which changes his face from serious disappointment to serious horror.
But it's OK because we're spiritually married.
Because sex.0 -
'Cause teen boys are SO on board with using condoms ...It would lower teen pregnancy rate as well as lower the amount of tax dollars going into helping this teen. It would also prevent STDs from spreading.... The only way their personal life would affect the community is through the amount of governmental support (tax dollars)
No it wouldnt, lol.
Sex education is a better way to prevent those things, along with more readily available sexual health services.
pass out condoms in schools and let's see what happens to the teen pregnancy rate
Teenagers are idiots. We were allidiots when we were teenagers. They do dumb things. Some get lucky and come out unscathed. But teens have been having sex since the first one crawled out of the ooze.
unfortunately they are not, but what I'm saying is if sex is more acceptable and taught how to be done safely with less risk of disease or pregnancy there will be a positive correlation in the teen pregnancy rate. unfortunately teenagers are idiots and they will continue to have sex and be stupid.0 -
I've been on a Biblical fast for years and have felt great!
I haven't read the thing since I was 8.
I love you. I'm on the same fast !!! Big bearded sky daddy is totally telling me we should be friends. 0 -
In Biblical times, once you had sex with the person you were espoused to (engaged to) that was how you became married in God's eyes. There were no licenses, elaborate ceremonies or anything like today's traditions. Today it is the same. When you have sex with somebody you are spiritually marrying them.
Nowadays I do believe it wise for couples to make the commitment to abstain only because if things don't go well during an engagement at least you can leave the relationship without having had that "next level bond" so to speak.
Anyways, I applaud the Daniel Fast and I am going to try it. All technicalities aside, if it worked it worked!
Congrats on your weight loss!
Do I get spiritual alimony from all those partners, then?
You must be spiritually wealthy!
Can I spiritually pay off my credit card?
With your past, I bet you could pay off everyone's!
Are you calling her a harlot?
Only spiritually, though. I need to figure out how to get my spiritual prostitution payments to be actual. Would going to church help?
Start going to church and stop consuming alcohol. It is all about sacrifice.
Don't get crazy, here. There's wine at Catholic churches.
It is spiritually transmuted into blood.
If I spill wine does that mean I have blood on my hands?
It means i'm not sharing any expensive wine with you for sure...0 -
If everyone abstained from sex before marriage then the 20 million slaves used in the sex trade could be free. There wouldn't be rapings all over the world.
Whaaaaah?! <walking away now>0 -
Well done on the Fast!!
All these post about religion makes me quite please that I'm not a Christian. I'm glad that I have an easy and simple relationship with my higher power.0 -
I'm not against it at all. I just think whatever we do is ineffective. It seems like the teen prgnancy rate falls for a while, then rises again, then falls, then rises.
'Cause teen boys are SO on board with using condoms ...It would lower teen pregnancy rate as well as lower the amount of tax dollars going into helping this teen. It would also prevent STDs from spreading.... The only way their personal life would affect the community is through the amount of governmental support (tax dollars)
No it wouldnt, lol.
Sex education is a better way to prevent those things, along with more readily available sexual health services.
pass out condoms in schools and let's see what happens to the teen pregnancy rate
Teenagers are idiots. We were allidiots when we were teenagers. They do dumb things. Some get lucky and come out unscathed. But teens have been having sex since the first one crawled out of the ooze.
unfortunately they are not, but what I'm saying is if sex is more acceptable and taught how to be done safely with less risk of disease or pregnancy there will be a positive correlation in the teen pregnancy rate. unfortunately teenagers are idiots and they will continue to have sex and be stupid.
We had sex ed in my school. We learned all the stuff about BC and STDs and everything. Yet there was a VERY high rate of pregnancy there during my time (including me).
My mother even kept offering to take me to get on the pill and I repeatedly refused. I was an idiot. I had the mentality that an honor-roll student from a middle-class family wasn't going to end up pregnant young.
Logically, I knew it was possible. But teenage brain ruled.
I think, though, if we reach one kid, it's probably worth it.0 -
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So I can fast, make money and make God happy all at the same time. But, this may or may not cause slavery and rape if I do it? I am getting lost in this thread!But... Daniel ate this way for 3 years or more, didn't he (Daniel 1)? His second fast (Daniel 10) was only 21 days. Don't you need to do the 3 year one before the 21 day one???
PS - love that the Daniel Fast website is selling a program called the "Daniel Fast for Financial Breakthrough". Yeah, fasting to make money makes sense to me.
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So I can fast, make money and make God happy all at the same time. But, this may or may not cause slavery and rape if I do it? I am getting lost in this thread!But... Daniel ate this way for 3 years or more, didn't he (Daniel 1)? His second fast (Daniel 10) was only 21 days. Don't you need to do the 3 year one before the 21 day one???
PS - love that the Daniel Fast website is selling a program called the "Daniel Fast for Financial Breakthrough". Yeah, fasting to make money makes sense to me.
(sarcastic post is sarcastic)
Don't forget, also could potentially decrease unwanted pregnancy!! Christianity is the obvious answer to our population problem.....(said no one ever.)0 -
Back to the topic of fasting, I do believe it has its spiritual as well as nutritional benefits. We fast one month a year and it's called Ramadan. We don't eat or drink anything from sunrise to sunset (this year that was about 17 hours fast in the US). Also we increase good deeds, abstain from bad deeds and smoking, pray more and give more charity to the needy during this month. I didn't lose much, but the goal of it is to enhance spirituality. Daniel fast sounds very interesting as I hadn't heard about it before. Thanks for sharing and keep it up!0
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I completely hate it when I'm late to a good party...0
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It's ok...ignorant people say stupid things. If you believe in God and the bible (and you can't say you believe in God if you dont believe his word), then you know what happened to Daniel in the Lions Den and why, you know what fasting means and why we do it, you know what sexual impurity is and what it means, you know what Gd says about marriage and sex before marriage. If you dont know, then you're ignorant. If you want to know, go read the WORD!
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