Everyone on TV - says Oh My God, etc. Saying this in fear - I think is ok but what is in vain..What is your understanding?
2007-11-05 03:11:40 · 23 answers · asked by Frontier123 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
the dictionary says vain is
1: having no real value : idle, worthless
it means do not use his name without understanding the true value of it.. do not use it the wrong way. Gods Name.. is not God... god is a title. thats like saying... Girl.. or Boy. Man or Women. Grandma Grandpa. there is actually many gods the bible speaks of. Paul, in fact, said: “There are many ‘gods’ and many ‘lords’.”
if you worship it.. it can be a god. money is a great example. most people worship money. money is a god. haha
anyways... what its saying is that you should use jehvoah gods name in a good way not in a bad way. use it when you speak to him.. use it when your talking about him.. but dont say.. oh my god when you see something scary or 'unbelieveable' because that is not glorifying god at all. only use his name to upbuild.
i'm not saying i'm perfect
i use the phrase oh my god
but i still dont think its right. haha
2007-11-05 03:21:37 · answer #1 · answered by Kyrstin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The commandment to not "take His Name in vain" actually says not to bring His Name to nothing. And what did the translators of the bible do? They left His Name out of the book completely! His Name is Yahweh.
God, Lord, and Jehovah are NOT His Name. HaShem and Adonai are not His Name, either.
Those who call upon the Name of Yahweh will be saved. Don't reduce His Name down to a title.
2007-11-05 03:26:32 · answer #2 · answered by NXile 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Modern Christians have a very twisted and distorted view on what this actually means. Titles like "God" and "Lord" were used so that we do not take the Lord's name in vain.
2007-11-05 03:18:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Some examples:
1. Hypocrisy 2. Making a profession of God's name and not living up to it. 3. Claiming the Lord's name without knowledge of His grace. 4. Taking any oath and not keeping it. 5. False worship.
2007-11-05 03:41:05 · answer #4 · answered by joseph8638 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Using it as a curse word that you hear in almost every movie made today. Seldom can you get through a movie without hearing it. For this reason I've quit watching anything but old rerun movies which had no cursing in them. I watch very few of these also. Hearing God's name being used in vain and as a curse word has completely turned me against movies.
2007-11-05 03:29:50 · answer #5 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To take the Lords call in ineffective is to apply His call as a cuss be conscious or in a in high quality condition of disgust. it extremely is a sin through fact it extremely is as though people who do it are disrespecting and belittling God on purpose. he's the author of all it relatively is and the only one that has skill no longer in basic terms to wreck the physique yet additionally the soul. people who take Gods call in ineffective are no longer working in a reverential concern of Him, that's an affront to Him. despite the fact that, taking God's call in ineffective is forgivable while we confess it to Him, ask forgiveness, and do our very perfect to in no way do it lower back. God sees and is commonplace with our hearts. If we are relatively sorry for sin and are doing our perfect to stay godly, he has promised to forgive us and cleans us from all unrighteousness (a million John a million:9).
2016-10-15 02:53:03 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The truth is, no one really knows exactly what it means. Given the definition of vain I would have to say it means not to use gods name in a foolish way.
2007-11-05 03:16:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yahweh is His name. NOT using His name is MAKING IT VAIN. The names/titles of Lord, God, Jehovah, Jesus, Zeus, Adoni, El, Elohim, Allah, ALL these and more are but names of titles for demons, www.yahweh.com read articl 'who is lord god'.
Exo 23:13 And in all [things] that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of strange gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.
2007-11-05 03:20:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unless you are worshiping or witnessing or praising then you are using the name of the LORD in vain.
2007-11-05 03:20:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
One of the ten commandments specifically says we are not to use His name in vain, especially to curse someone. It's why I don't say g-damn anymore.
2007-11-05 04:38:20 · answer #10 · answered by Danny H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋