[Sacajaweau]

Another MAN made church rule....Then there was the MORTAL SIN for eating meat on Friday.

Neither makes any sense.

[Shadow44]

I don’t get what the practice of fasting has to do with any of this.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Hi there, Sacajaweau. I think this is a category mistake.

The fasting laws do not lay out intrinsic moral norms, but can be made "binding" or can be "loosed" according to the "loosing and binding" authority which Christ gave to the Church (Matthew 18:18).

On the other hand, the law against engaging in deliberately disordered or sterilized sex, as in onanism/ sodomy/ contraception/ lesbianism, is Natural Law, and ties in with other Natural Laws like the ones forbidding deliberate misuse, mutilation, or impairment of healthy organs and systems.

The first category (what days do you fast, and so forth)involves changeable disciplines, analogous to driving on the right in the USA (unlike in the UK or Ireland, where you drive on the left.)

The second involves ethical behavior based on the meaning and purposes of created human nature, i.e. Natural Law, which is universal.

[A.A. Cunningham]

Another MAN made church rule....

Says the one ignorant of Onan.

[Campion]

Nothing man made about it. It's part of natural law and taught in Scripture (Gen 28 and the condemnation of pharmakeia in the NT. And, prior to 1930, EVERY Christian denomination in the world recognized this. Your teachings have changed. Ours haven't.