thorpido:
You fasting is not marathon is it(without a break period)?
If you are saying from 6am to 6pm for instance,when you break at 6pm,you can have sex afterwards.
It should also be with the consent of your spouse.You should agree on staying apart for the period.

Mariangeles:
Question wey you suppose ask your pastor na im you carry come nairaland.

Anyways, if you’re a Christian, you are not supposed to have sex during the whole period of your fasting and prayer, but it must be in consent with your spouse.

thorpido:
You fasting is not marathon is it(without a break period)?
If you are saying from 6am to 6pm for instance,when you break at 6pm,you can have sex afterwards.
It should also be with the consent of your spouse.You should agree on staying apart for the period.

Kobojunkie:
Why ask pastor when na from the same Bible all of una dey supposedly read from?

Any man or woman who depends on another man or woman for the Word of God does so at his/her own soul's peril. Your Pastors and mogs have so filled your heads with life and stories that have no bearing with God and Jesus Christ the the average Christian is no different from a juju worshiper or pagan out there today.

Anyone who truly knows God would know the meaninglessness of the question asked by the Op right off the bat, but these are the kind of questions many who call themselves Christians go around asking.

Mariangeles:
And then Kobo comes along…

I swear, my mind been don tell me say you go quote me.

Mariangeles:


That is not true.
Smh!

Kobojunkie:
God no command you to engage in these starvation diets which you call fasting to begin with. The kind of fasting which He asked from you is detailed in Isaiah 58 and has nothing to do with torturing your bodies in any way or form.

thorpido:
Prove to me it is not.

thorpido:
Kobo Kobo

After fasting forty days and forty nights,he was hungry. The tempter came to him and said, “If you are the Son of God,tell these stones to become bread.” Matthew 4:2:-3.

What kind of fasting did Jesus do that made him hungry according to Isaiah 58?

Kobojunkie:
But none of what you claim is written in scripture though.

Kobojunkie:
1. Jesus Christ fasted as a result of spending forty days and forty nights unplanned nights in the wilderness. Same happened to Moses, when, again, unplanned, went to see God. God never commanded them to fast nor were there fasts of the 6-to-6 kind you lot have formulated for yourselves.

2. The fasting which Jesus Christ however commands of you is the fasting that God commanded...which is detailed in Isaiah 58 for all those who will obey Him. This the same Jesus Christ who told you that those who are of Him, those who love Him, are those who obey His commandments- John 14 vs 15 - 25 - His friends are those who do what He says - John 15 vs 14.

So if your religion in no way resembles that commanded of you by Jesus Christ, don't you see how it is in vain?

thorpido:
1 Corinthians 7:5 admonishes couples to separate consensually for fasting and prayer and to come together again when the fast is over. When they break fasts,they eat and drink and can enjoy other pleasures(that are not sin when the fast is ended).

Kobojunkie:
So you are insinuating that when a person goes one of your starvation diets, it is sin to engage in sex during such a time? Where exactly is this sin stated by Jesus Christ, the one who is God's actual Law and Truth in the Kingdom of God?

Surely, you don't believe the opinions of Paul expressed in his letters written mainly to his Jewish audience overturns Jesus Christ, God's very own Law and commandments to you, right?,

thorpido:
Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.Matthew 4:1

He was led by the Spirit........ how did you come up with the idea the trip was not planned?

Kobojunkie:
Jesus Christ was also led by the Spirit of God to His death.... but we don't see people volunteering to be crucified on a cross like Jesus Christ was either.... your point? [b]

As I said.... Jesus Christ and Moses and even Elijah(I believe) all fasted for 40 days and 40 nights as a result of being with God in the wilderness for that long. The eventual fasting that took place was not planned by any of the men neither were they your [b]6-to-6 kind of starvation diets which you have all taken to formulating pretending you do so on behalf of God.

On more than one occasion, including in Isaiah 58, God has instead cautioned that He does not care for your diets or your starving of your bodies..... in Isaiah 58, He again makes this known and reveals the kind of fasting He prefers from you - the key to letting your light shine as commanded by Jesus Christ.

thorpido:
1. I have not found it written anywhere in the scriptures that while people fasted,they also engaged in sex.

Apostle Paul's letters did not go contrary to Jesus's words.

thorpido:
Kobojunkie,is anyone's death apart from that of Jesus of any spiritual significance?

Kobojunkie:
So somehow we are to fast exactly as He did even though God, and Jesus Christ never asked us to? .

But we must not in the same breath die exactly as Jesus Christ did because our deaths will not be of spiritual significance but somehow our fasting like Him will?

thorpido:

Jesus did.He once told his disciples there are things that can't be achieved but by praying and fasting.

Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and Matthew 17:21

Cpumping:
Good Morning people,


Please I want to know, does having sex with your spouse during fasting in anyway affect/spoil the prayer?

I would need scriptural backing.

Kobojunkie:
My mistake... here

So somehow we are to go on starvation diets(fast) exactly as He did even though God, and Jesus Christ never asked us to? .

But we must not in the same breath die exactly as Jesus Christ did because our deaths will not be of spiritual significance but somehow our starvation dieting(fasting) like Him will?

thorpido:
Fasting is for individual self spiritual development.Every Christian needs it.

No man's death has no significance (and cannot have) like the death of Jesus.

Richy4:


Just read 1 Corinthians 7 Vs 5... It's self explanatory.. ie if u were a Christian