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No, being over weight is not a sin. You clearly do not understand how the word translated gluttony is being used in scripture. You are trying to add to scripture. If weight was a sin then the scripture would have to give a BMI chart so we could know what the parameters are. Men do not set the parameters. Also no person in scripture is EVER condemned because of weight, gluttony yes, weight no. Your assertion is blatantly false and I would remind you of Rev. 22:18 as you pile on the backs of men that which you are not able to carry.

 

Yes I do understand what you are saying. I am saying you do not understand what scripture is saying. Gluttony is certainly a sin. However gluttony is not tied in any way to weight in scripture. You are trying to tie the two together.

Gluttony can be tied to food, but it really covers the whole lifestyle. In scripture it was uaually done by the rich as the poor could not afford to be gluttons. Speaking about food there are some very fat people in both the rich and very poor. When pointing to food alone the passages are dealing with people who frequent fancy banquets and large suppers, or parties with a wide variety of different lavish foods and who see all the different kinds of food but they know they cannot eat it all but their gluttonous heart wants it all so they eat until they are gorged and then up-chuck to eat more, gluttony. It has nothing what so ever to do with being overweight. Those people many times had no weight problems as they up-chucked what they ate. It is like the guy who wanted to build more barns to store more riches.

It would be like a person going into an all you can eat restaurant and eating some of everything from the serving tables, but to do so they have to up-chuck.
Just because someone eats and does not get enough exercise to overcome what they eat and they put on pounds does not make them a glutton no matter how much they are over weight. Now it is true that could be one consequence, but it is NOT what the scripture is calling gluttony or pointing to as to determine what gluttony is. As I said if this was tied to pounds then the scripture would have to give a BMI chart so we could judge our eating. This is about gorging ourselves and then getting rid of the food we ate so we can eat more.

So as I stated there is no gene that causes people to be gluttons any more then there is a gene that causes people to rape, murder, rob, lie, committ homosexuality, coveting or any other sin. I would agree that there may very well be some gene that makes people fat or eat until they become very fat, but being fat is not because they are gluttons. People are gluttons because they want more of the finest and best even if they are already full and they do what ever it takes to get more.

In Deut. 21:20 and
And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son [is] stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; [he is] a glutton, and a drunkard.

as well as Proverbs 23:21 we can see more clear a comparrison.

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe [a man] with rags.

The word for glutton means the following;

) to be worthless, be vile, be insignificant, be light
a) (Qal)
1) to be worthless, be insignificant
2) to make light of, squander, be lavish with
2) to shake, tremble, quake
a) (Niphal) to shake, quake

Being fat has nothing to do with it. It is people who live for themselves indulging to excess' of life in everything that fills their own desires.

 

Any opposition might be because I miss-understand what you are saying. I looked over the article, but it seemed to support what I understand you to be saying. My point is that gluttony in scripture is not tied in any way to being over weight and as you mentioned a gene in regards to it I am trying to show there is no such gene. A glutton could be someone who is very skinny but we would not normally tie gluttony to someone who was skinny so we should not tie it to someone who is fat. Gluttony is a lifestyle, not an eating disorder.

As to riotous eaters in 23:20 it is the same Hebrew word translated gluttons and is not tied solely to eating of food.

 

I have said there may be a gene that causes over eating, which is not sin, but that was not the initial issue. It was about gluttony which is sin. I simply wanted to set things straight because most Christians hold that being overweight is tied to gluttony when it is not. We tend to pile too much on people that does not belong to them. Gluttony is much broader then just over eating and being fat.

 

No you still don't understand. You are still stuck on linking over eating with gluttony. Homosexuality is not a disorder. It is a choice. Biblical Gluttony is not a disorder. It is a choice.
An eating disorder is not sin if a gene is involved but even if no gene is causing it, it still is not biblical gluttony by itself.