Debunking The Idea of Prolonged Dry Fasting

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Debunking The Idea of Prolonged Dry Fasting

Fasting is human effort and except for pious self-denial, it achieves little else. The spirit alone is what saves through faith. So, what helps your prayer is really faith not fasting.

◄ John 6:63 ►

New Living Translation

The Spirit alone gives eternal life. Human effort accomplishes nothing.

Faith is 100 times more important than both fasting and prayer, while prayer is more important than fasting.

If you study the scriptures you will notice that the newer more reliable bible translations like NLT, NIV, etc don’t have MATTHEW 17:21, where it is said except through fasting.

The Queen James version has it along with a few others translated from less reliable manuscripts. The verse undermines the power of faith and tries to use religion and human effort from fasting to substitute it.

Here is where the more reliable manuscripts end, IN FAITH!
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◄ Matthew 17:20 ►

New Living Translation

“You don’t have enough faith,” Jesus told them. “I tell you the truth, if you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it would move. Nothing would be impossible.”

– Daddy Freeze

Lose Your Religion and Gain Your Salvation

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One of the biggest mistake Christians make is to think that the King James Version of the Bible is an exact or evening equivalent translation of the original Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek Scriptures. Not true. Not true at all.

The King James Version is similar to a version of one of many sides of an argument. When people argue, they tell their ‘own side’ of what transpired. As an independent and objective bystander, you will be foolish if you hear only one side of the argument and conclude based on that.

Sadly, that is what many people do with the King James Version. And this has led to a situation where their faith is built on lies, half-truths and inadvertent errors by the translators.

There are actually people who have said, ‘If King James Version was good enough for the early church, it is good enough for me!”. Such is the ignorance of many so-called Christians that they are unaware that the KJV was established in 1611, more than 1500 years after the ‘early church’. Many people you know, actually think that Peter, John, and Paul, along with many of the Apostles, wrote the KJV. I am not joking.

I have previously dealt with this issue at length, however, it takes several doses of medicament to cure some diseases. So let me give this another go.

One of the Scriptural verses that the KJV got either deliberately or inadvertently wrong is Isaiah 45:11 which reads in that version as follows:

“Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me.”

Based on that, many genuine believers have been commanding God. Let me put it this way, it is actually stupid to command God. And the original Hebrew Scriptures never said such.

The truth, which is clear if you read the original Hebrew, or even if you read the preceding and succeeding verses, is that God speaking through Isaiah was showing disappointment in people who were questioning His judgment.

The preceding verse (Isaiah 45:10) says: “Woe to the one who says to a father, ‘What have you begotten?’

 

By Reno Omokri