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Fasting = the spiritual discipline of denying oneself FOOD for the purpose of drawing closer to God and denying the flesh. IT IS NOT turning off the TV, not posting on Facebook, not having sex, or anything else. Fasting is to not eat food.

I don't think you can make as strong a case as would like....Daniel 10:3says, I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.He could have easily said, I ate

Amen! The supposed proof texts for the so-called ‘Daniel Fast’ never use the word, “fast” at all. Of course, it’s perfectly fine to restrict one’s diet or one’s extracurricular activities for the glory of God, but that is not the same thing as a biblical fast. Since the Gospels reveal that Jesus, our prime example, was hungry after 40 days, and not thirsty, the only logical conclusion is that He took in only water during those forty days in the wilderness.

At that time I, Daniel,

What should we call the Daniel non eating certain foods because of a spiritual reason?Fast seems reasonable to me - but I will let the spiritual giants weigh in on this. (FYI: That lets you off the hook NTUP - as no one would recognize you as such - but I felt I should clear it up for you)

Why do we call it a fast?

When the time goes so slowly

I don't think you can make as strong a case as would like....Daniel 10:3says, I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.He could have easily said, I ate

There was also fasting water in the Bible. I can't find a conclusive example where it clearly says they fasted food and not water, though they may have. This became an issue of interest for me when I found out that GBI (COG) folks in Indonesia fasted food and water. Muslims do that also. But so did Esther and so did Israel on another occasion. It isn't clear what all was fasted in verses that just say they fasted.

Fasting a meal is a fast, isn't it? It's just a short one?A lot of COG people in Indonesia will fast food and water from sunup to sundown as a fast. Some will skip breakfast or breakfast and lunch. A leader might call a fast for all the church workers and 'activists.' (Like Pak Niko used to do when I was in Bethany. They fasted once a week.) You can eat dinner at night and either eat breakfast before sunup or just fast breakfast, lunch, and eat dinner after dark.Days are always around 12 hours long in Indonesia since it is in the tropics, which makes this easy to do. If you were to do this in the summer, it would be hard. Some Christians will do the sunup to sunset fast with no food and water for an extended period of time.Muslims fast that way. When I realized Christians did that, I wondered if it was cultural influence, but I found that sunup to sunset food and water fast in the Bible, but I did not find a 24 hour food-only fast in there. Muslims borrowed a lot of practices from Christians and Jews, anyway