Dr Paul Allen

Myth #1: Jesus commands his followers to fast. Jesus assumes his followers will fast, and even promises we will fast, but neither he nor his apostles strictly command fasting. While many biblical texts mention fasting, the two most important come just chapters apart in Matthew’s Gospel. The first is Matthew 6:16–18, which comes in sequence with Jesus’s teachings on generosity and prayer. Fasting is as basic to Christianity as asking from God and giving to others. The key here is that Jesus doesn’t say “if you fast,” but “when you fast.” Second is Matthew 9:14–15, which might be the most important scripture on Christian fasting: Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?” And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.” (Matt. 9:14–15) When Jesus, our bridegroom, was here on earth am...

Are you a vegan on Biblical principles? Yes or No? No one can make a legitimate biblical case for eating a plant-based diet. The Mosaic Law outlawed shellfish and meat from unclean animals. But under the New Covenant God’s people are free to eat or drink anything God created, or food scientists concocted. Jesus made this clear, and Mark added an explanatory note that expels any doubt of interpretation: Mark 7:15-19 There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him. … Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him, since it enters not his heart but his stomach, and is expelled?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.) This lesson was reiterated in a vision God gave Peter in which Peter was instructed to kill and eat unclean animals, as a sign that unclean Gentiles (and their yucky dietary habits) were now acceptable to God in Christ. Paul spells out that no one should be ju...

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