Tomcat54: Wisdom from the Beat Generation says...it's a hoax. You'll either die or suffer kidney failure within one year. Anyone considering not eating for 40 days must be overweight. Go on a low calorie, high protein diet. Lots of fiber. Take your vitamins and minerals and get your electrolytes. (1400 calories a day) You'll lose five pounds a week for as long as you're on it. When you've reached your desired goal, go back to 2000 calories a day. Consult your doctor. Good luck. fasting for 40 days on water, you need fasting support and a fasting coach for that. Want to hire a fasting coach in your area, visit my bio page to hire one and for online fasting support.
If you are fasting, you do not eat.
Yes
ter the 40 days of fasting , the first miracle Jesus did was changing of water into wine.
if your christian its most likely 40 days, but for kids it doesn't have to be, but during the fasting process you can eat bread and drink water
Lent is the 40 days of fasting done by Jesus in the wilderness, after he was baptized by John.
40 days marked by fasting, from food and festivities, and other acts of penance
because of the tessera for the number four which sympolizes the 40 days ( which is actually more than 40 ) of fasting
40 days marked by fasting, from food and festivities, and other acts of penance
Of course. Check your Bible. It says He hungered. Not He hungered and thirsted. But keep in its not possible to go so long without water. Most people are dead after about 3-5. 40? I don't think so. Not without His Father's intervention.
Fasting is not recommended for pregnant mothers. (By fasting I mean not eating, perhaps drinking water, for several days). Being a little hungry now and again is not a problem.
A time of fasting is to remember what Christ did for us in the desert for 40 days and 40 nights, he made a sacrafice and resisted tempatation for us. If you are a religious person and want to please your Lord then fasting is far from a waste of time. But if you don't want to give up food by fasting, perhaps there is something else you usually do that you don't mind giving up for Lent.
Abstinence means not having meat for 40 days during lent or atleast on Ash Wednesday or Good Friday. These are the days of fasting and penance.