I tried to make a thread about this before, but I failed to be convincing. My main point was the obesity paradox where the overweight are more likely to live longer than those who aren't overweight.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_paradox
I've said it before, but it's better to be overweight than hungry.
A Christian Defense of Obesity
Jesus fasted for forty days. Why? It was either as a hunger strike, but he didn't say for what purpose, so that's probably not the case. It could've been to lose weight, which is my belief. I believe he was probably obese. I think Jesus is misportrayed as skinny. This is backed up by Luke 7:34 which says, "The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’" He was accused truthfully of overeating.
This is stretching my defense, but The Bible says, "Are you so dull?' [Jesus] asked. 'Don’t you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them? For it doesn’t go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body.'" He declares all food clean, but perhaps this can also be used to defend overeating. Even if a lot from the outside goes into you, it doesn't defile you.
Jesus didn't like himself or his disciples being hungry. Matthew 12 begins with: "At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick some heads of grain and eat them. 2 When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, 'Look! Your disciples are doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath.'" Jesus didn't even follow the Sabbath rule not to do this that day to eat. He defended himself by saying David did something similar.
Gluttony is not a sin. Undereating is a sin.
@Old Ironsides @The_word_made_flesh @Chud Norris72 I'm pinging Christmaxxers since this is related.
