Category: Fasting

Food is for the body and the body for food. The edicts of man restricting the eating of certain foods on certain days is self imposed religion which is futile and vain because it elevates the ideas to be doctrine.

The New Testament makes it clear that one is neither condemned nor saved by virtue of his diet. Still, if one garners spiritual benefit from fasting, he should not be discouraged in the exercise. His fasting should not become a public venture or means of self-exultation, however. This occurs far too often among those proud of their self-sacrificial custom.