People tell me that cussing is bad if you are a christian, but I have never read it in the bible. Maybe I'm mistaking though, is it mentioned anywhere?
2007-10-10 18:11:27 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes, here are 3 in a very quick search:
Eph:4:29: Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Col:3:8: But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
Eph:5:4: Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.
2007-10-10 18:25:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Romans 3:12-14; There is none who does good, There is not even one. their throat is an open grave; With their tongues they keep deceiving, The poison of asps is under their lips whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
1Timothy 6:3,4; If anyone advocates a different doctrine and does not agree with sound words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and with the doctrine conforming to godliness, he is conceited and understands nothing; but he has a morbid interest in controversial questions and disputes about words, out of which arise envy, strife, abusive language, evil suspicions,
James 3: 8-10; But no one can tame the tongue; it is a restless evil and full of deadly poison. With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the likeness of God; from the same mouth come both blessing and cursing.
2007-10-10 18:29:35 · answer #2 · answered by cheir 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The injunction against the use of the Lord's name for vain purposes is a wholly seperate issue from using profane language. God didn't want people presuming to speak for God, for nobody can know the mind of God but God.
"God d@mn it!" is an oopsie, but you get a pass for "fck off."
2007-10-10 18:25:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
few christians realize this, but when the bible said "don't take the lord's name in vain" it had nothing to do with saying "god damn" or any variation of that.
It literally meant that Jews were not even to utter the name "Jehovah", ever.
You were not allowed to speak god's name out loud
2007-10-10 18:16:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Profanity in the bible:
http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/lang/long.html
2007-10-10 18:16:24 · answer #5 · answered by Dreamstuff Entity 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not that I know of but I am no Bible scholor. Harold, since when is f**k the Lord Thy God's name?
2007-10-10 18:20:13 · answer #6 · answered by David M 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Thou shalt not take the Lord's name in vain. It's in there somewhere.
2007-10-10 18:15:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
hell no.
2007-10-10 18:16:11 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋