Sunday, December 10, 2023

Jaiden Forrest Presenting Dr. Daniel Wallace on Textual Variants


Scholar Tests the Reliability of the Bible and Finds THIS
Jaiden Forrest | 7 Dec. 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx4ZPSsXMbE


I had one quibble with Dr. Daniel Wallace, on fasting:

6:42 The scholar is actually wrong when he says that this is the only place in the NT when the word "fasting" is made as a command.

There is a much more famous and less exorcist centred place, namely "when you fast" ... not if, but when.

Furthermore we can be very sure this was not just during the OT, because in another place some are asking why His disciples do not fast.

Then came to him the disciples of John, saying: Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but thy disciples do not fast And Jesus said to them: Can the children of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then they shall fast.
[Matthew 9:14—15]

That's why fasting seasons are:
Spy Wednesday and generally Wednesdays (except in the Latin rite, except except during Ember Days, soon upcoming btw);
Good Friday and generally Fridays
for the Latin rite as well (especially still in Ember Days)
Holy Saturday and generally Saturdays (except privileged ones).

So, there are actually at least two other places where Jesus speaks of fasting, and those are not just for exorcists.

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