People starve to death in Kenya while fasting 'to meet Jesus'

[Frankj]

Faith, as it is exercised in the material world, is based on previous experiences (either yours or of the majority of other people). You trust chairs to support you because you know that most of the time chairs support people. Sure, there are exceptions, there are weak or broken or faulty chairs in this world that break when you sit on them. But the exceptions are the minority. With God, the exceptions are the majority.

Healing miracles are, in fact, so rare, that there cannot even be done an experiment to verify their existence. If that were the case for any other phenomenon in the material world, we would simply not have faith in said phenomenon. If medication worked as unfrequently as Christian miracles happen, no one would trust medication either.

What you are talking about is where people have actually put their faith.

Jesus talked directly of what we are like when and what we can do when we put out faith where it belongs, in God instead of in the world and its ways, and his life was testimony to such.

Miracles today are rare not because, as most Christians like to explain it away, because the age of miracles has passed but because the age of faith has passed.

When you talk of doing an experiment to verify something you are just saying that you have put your faith in experimental verification, not directly in God. You, along with almost all of the world, have put your faith in science and worldly philosophies ahead of true faith in God and the power of creation he made in you as being his image.

Jesus said seek and you will find, meditate on the full implications of that.

 

[CrossWalk]

Read more here: 4 starve to death in Kenya while fasting 'to meet Jesus' | Africanews

I never understood the fasting part of Christianity. The only thing fasting has brought me was illness. Intermittent fasting caused me gallbladder disease. Every time I fast, my health deteriorates.

Why would God want people to deprive themselves of nourishment for their bodies? Why did Jesus fast for 40 days? What was He trying to accomplish? Why did He say that some demons can't be cast out except through fasting? What kind of ridiculous rules are these? Demons are lawless spiritual entities. Why would lawless spiritual entities have any legal ground based on whether a human nourishes their body or not?

There is always somebody online who says fasting is bad for them. That is the exception, not the rule. There is lots of documentation out there that fasting is one of the healthiest things we can do and the Bible's prescription to do it reveals that it is good for our spirit and soul as well.

Fasting has led to all manner of massive health improvements, including healing people of diseases. If it's a problem for someone, they don't have to do it, but there are lots of organizations and medical-supported programs out there that have proven it is very beneficial to the body.

Keep in mind that anything that negatively effects the bottom line of Big Pharma and the medical industry will never be spoken well of in the mainstream. Pray for guidance and do it a little at a time and you will discover amazing benefits of all kinds. If it scares you, or you don't believe it's good for you, don't bother with it.

God bless.

 

[Maranatha]

Just adding 2 thoughts

"Four people were on Thursday found dead and nearly a dozen others hospitalised in Kenya's coastal Kilifi county, after being rescued while waiting the imminent end of the world.
The victims who are believed to be members of Pastor Paul Mackenzie’s Good News International Church say they had been told to fast to avoid “apocalyptic damnation”, the police said." ( from africanews )

What this pastor said was completely unbiblical!
No one knows the day or the hour when Jesus will return.
To be told to fast to avoid “apocalyptic damnation” is also unbiblical.

It is therefore paramount in those last days that we test everything and search the Scriptures daily for ourselves as the Bereans did.
For false Christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect. See, I have told you beforehand. (Matth.24:24,25 ESV)

About miracles
Jesus did many perfect healings.
But then he often said, don't tell anyone.
He did perfect miracles.
Then He began to denounce the cities in which most of His miracles had been performed, because they did not repent. “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.…(Matth. 11:20,21)

 

[Gordon Zhao]

Read more here: 4 starve to death in Kenya while fasting 'to meet Jesus' | Africanews

I never understood the fasting part of Christianity. The only thing fasting has brought me was illness. Intermittent fasting caused me gallbladder disease. Every time I fast, my health deteriorates.

Why would God want people to deprive themselves of nourishment for their bodies? Why did Jesus fast for 40 days? What was He trying to accomplish? Why did He say that some demons can't be cast out except through fasting? What kind of ridiculous rules are these? Demons are lawless spiritual entities. Why would lawless spiritual entities have any legal ground based on whether a human nourishes their body or not?

Anyway, I think you should not have attacked the rule.