Quote Originally Posted by STDzRus
And if you look at it from another perspective.

Adam and Eve supposedly did EAT an apple. It was never said whether or not they ate before that, but maybe eating is one of the sins. Maybe when we started eating God said "your evil" and took away or everlasting. Just think...one time...we were all a nutstain in Adam's undies.

Anyways, these crazy people that fast, could be practicing something to show that they are closer to God by respecting his wishes and not eating food or "the apple".
1. they were told they could eat from any other tree, there is a specification that eating isn't wrong although i know you're just trying to be a smartass

2. if you make a sacrifice for someone, it's making a devotion. those crazy people who fast, are fasting to show a devotion. not to other people, but to God whom they believe whole-heartedly exists. it's also a way of sort of controlling glutonny, cuz almost everyone in modern society is a gluton.