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Ask gramps hope faith difference12/10/2023 ![]() Fasting always demands some small price, even if it’s only a bit of weakness from not eating for a day. Eventually, our bodies adjust to the lower blood sugar and other biological differences a fast makes, and we are fine. When we begin fasting, we might get a headache the first two or three, or maybe ten or twelve, times we fast. Though this quote is fairly well-known among the Saints (most think it was Brigham Young who said it), many don’t realize that the “headache” part of fasting is generally not a permanent feature of the fast. ![]() ![]() Well, I can fast, and so can any other man and if it makes my head ache by keeping the commandments of God, let it ache. It was remarked this morning that some people said they could not fast because it made their head ache. President Wilford Woodruff famously, or infamously, said: We live in an amazing and blessed time in history, yet those blessings make us insensitive to what we have. Yet many people in our society today have literally never gone 24 hours without food, and the large majority really have no idea what it’s like to be truly hungry. Our bodies were designed to endure periods of little or no food, and even go entirely without food for a few days at a time. This is partly a result of the times we live in. Is the idea of refraining from fasting all together or partial abstaining, because of medical reasoning, simply a lack of faith? We are dealing with an omnipotent being that could easily take care of us during our fast time are we not? Thank you for your time!Īt the most recent General Conference, President Eyring called the fast “a commandment with a wonderful promise for those in need and for us.” Nevertheless, fasting does not seem to be a well-understood principle among the Saints. But it didn’t become a “big” religion until much later.I have read many questions and comments in various forums including lds.org, and have yet to find someone else having the same thought about fasting that I have. They really have been around for 3500 years with pretty much the same system of beliefs. This one doesn’t really have any ifs, ands, or buts. To be fair Zoroastrianism is considered the oldest continuing religion which originated around 1500 BC. But our system of beliefs says that it was the same God whom we worshiped throughout all these dispensations that links us all together as the oldest religion. Thus outsiders would easily consider these to be different religions. Yet he paid tithes to Melchizedek (King of Salem) who was the last of the Patriarchs per the Patriarchal Order from Adam on down.Įach dispensation had different covenants (or set of observances). He is thought to have lived around 2000 BC. The Abrahamic Covenant began with, well, Abraham. Yet the children of Israel of Moses’ time claimed ordinances and observances from the Abrahamic Covenant which would also be considered a different set of beliefs. And The Torah is the definition of that religion. Judaism was considered to have started with Moses (circa 1350 BC) because that was when The Law (Torah) was given. Yet Christianity itself is considered to have started only with Christ’s mortal ministry. Prior to that we must also acknowledge that Early Christianity sprung from Judaism as a fulfillment of the Law of Moses. Yet we believe that we only restored the earlier faith of Christ’s time that would make us pre-date Catholicism. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is one of the newest organized religions on the face of the earth. ![]() Many outside the religion would not consider the religion to be the same. But that is only given that recognition to allow Hindus to be able to stake their claim as the oldest religion. Precursors originated earlier than that stretching out a few millennia (as you say around 3000 BC). Hinduism as a formal set of beliefs and practices didn’t come into existence until around 500 BC. Even then the evidence is subject to interpretation and subjective characterization. Our guesses are only as accurate as the evidence we currently possess. Any historian will tell you that we don’t have all the answers. It is interesting that you use the term “historically”. If Adam and Eve were the first humans on earth and taught their children Christ’s gospel, why is Hinduism historically the first religion?
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