Do you know what physical effects fasting can have on your body? If so is that why you choose to fast to find god? Would you do drugs to find or be close to god?
2007-04-06 16:57:15 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Fasting is a tactic used for brainwashing Along with most other things involved with organized religion. Physical weakness makes one more vulnerable to coercion and suggestion
2007-04-07 09:17:08 · answer #1 · answered by hate 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Are you an atheist? If so, no wonder your question is ignorant. Fasting could be from anything. For instance, I could fast by not eating any meat for one week. While doing so, I pray and read my Bible. There are many ways to fast. You can fast by just drinking water and eating bread for a few days. Second of all, you do not need to fast to see God. Why do you think that sometimes in church or at a prayers service a vision comes to some people. Everyone has a different relationship with God and has a different gift. Some hears Him, has visions, or gets messages in their dreams. Don't judge what you don't know or have not experienced!!!
2007-04-07 00:03:46 · answer #2 · answered by truth hurts 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Never fasted to see God, did some fasting to find myself though (marvelous, out in the south west canyons, just me, a water bottle (with iodine for disinfecting water) and a clear stream for 72 hours. It's amazing what happens when you get away from the white noise of life. (It's not just about not eating, not eating doesn't help if you're still surrounded by the day to day crap. You need to do a little 'mental fasting' too)
The first sixteen hours you get incredibly hungry, then your body goes into 'starvation mode' and you aren't hungry anymore (I wouldn't recommend doing this in day to day, especially not if you're trying to be healthy), After about 24-36 hours you stop worrying about what's back in civilization that you need to deal worth. so from 36-72 hours you are in the here and now, nothing but the present situation. That's the good part. That's when you can really take stock of yourself.
You don't start hallucinating until you reach 72 hours without eating.
There are also many different kinds of fasting. You can consume nothing but liquids, or nothing at all, or only eat before sunrise and after sundown, it's as individual as you want to make it.
(Incidentally, I've found that I enter the same 'clear mind' stage after a few puffs of reefer.)
But for me it's not about finding God, it's about sorting my own self out.
2007-04-07 00:11:27 · answer #3 · answered by LX V 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Generally, people don't fast to "see God." They fast because it teaches them caring and compassion, and helps them to connect to God. For example, if you're Muslim, and Ramadan happens to fall in summer, you cannot drink or drink despite how hot the weather is. At the end of a sweltering day, you understand what poverty-stricken folks feel like, and you develop a further sense of empathy towards them. Yes, fasting may have a slightly bad effect on your health, but you recover. It's what fasting does to your way of thinking that truly matters.
Fasting may alter your concentration and energy if you aren't used to it. If you are in very poor health to start with, pregnant, or younger than 12, you shouldn't fast for the time-being.
2007-04-07 00:03:51 · answer #4 · answered by Chef G 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Destroying your body with drugs is different from not eating to get closer to god. I find it that fasting it lets your body feel of how your spirit feels when you have not read the word or spent time with god because the spirit feeds on the word like the body feeds on food. Drugs destroys you and it blocks you from gods purpose for your life
2007-04-07 00:01:16 · answer #5 · answered by curriositykilledthecat 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I never have, but fasting does have some good effects when done right.
For example, it helps clean the GI tract [as after 3 days it stops peristalsis].
However, many people end a fast with a large meal, not understanding that one needs to re-adjust to eating in three days. you're supposed to start out with small bits of raw veggies.
If one hallucinates during a fast, they have obviously done so for too long.
2007-04-07 00:09:33 · answer #6 · answered by Squishy Khrysorrhapis 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fasting is taught in the Bible. Jesus himself said in one passage when you fast not if you fast but when.
I have prayed for things for years, then gone on a fast and got an answer to prayer I had not been able to get in years. So you are to late to tell me it doesn't work, I have seen great things done through fasting in my own life and the lives of others.
Try it you will never be the same.
2007-04-07 00:01:39 · answer #7 · answered by wisdom 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
We dont fast to see God, we fast to give up something that may be keeping us from God. We sacrifice to bring us closer to God.. My fast consisted of giving up all meat, fish and poultry. I have not had any since Ash Wednesday. I dont think I will go back to eating meat.
2007-04-07 00:01:10 · answer #8 · answered by tebone0315 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fasting to see God is not Biblical.
2007-04-07 00:01:42 · answer #9 · answered by carpentershammerer 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, its kind of funny isn't it? They fast, which will negatively effect the body and act in the way way as any hallucinogen does, then they claim they saw something. Well... of course you saw something. You're dying.
2007-04-07 00:10:45 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋