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Originally Posted by GA Russell
Tom, it is my understanding that Jesus and his disciples walked everywhere. I have been told that only Roman soldiers (officers?) and high mucky-mucks had horses to ride on.
So for that reason, I believe that Jesus and everyone else was relatively thin and in good shape.
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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
Well, as I said, it certainly isn't the only possible explanation of his quick death on the cross, but as far as walking goes, I had an uncle who walked everyday all over town and he was a regular butterball. True, when he finally had to go to the hospital in his 60s he was told he "had the cholesterol level of a twenty-year-old," but he still had quite a gut.
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Just confirming what Tom said really; walking everywhere does not equal thin. I walk, a lot. Not everywhere these days, but there've been periods in my life when I have. And I've never, ever (since late childhood) been thin. There was even a period where I was subsisting on less than 800 calories a day, exercising for an hour for 5 days a week, and I never lost more than half a stone. And yes, I am overweight - I cold stand to lose quite a few half-stones
(I am a good keeper, to refer to myself as if I were a pony
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