Takoda Posted May 8, 2019 Group: Non-Conformist Theology Followers: 1 Topic Count: 1 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 137 Content Per Day: 0.07 Reputation: 52 Days Won: 0 Joined: 03/11/2019 Status: Offline Birthday: 05/27/1943 Share Posted May 8, 2019 On 3/9/2019 at 1:11 PM, ejected said: Loose lip christians. I hear this a lot. You hear this a lot. Are you guilty of over looking the second commandment? 'You will not take the Name of the Lord God in vain.' Im talking about the one liner 'oh my God!' This is used for any occasion. Trouble-excitement-humor- it just slips out here and there and everywhere. It is not a prayer, or worship moment. It is a non conscious expletive in the adjective sense. Its degrading to God and a bad witness to the lost. A careless pronouncment that needs to be repented of. Blasphemy. For sure. You have a strange idea of blasphemy. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeauJangles Posted May 8, 2019 Group: Royal Member Followers: 44 Topic Count: 229 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 10,900 Content Per Day: 2.95 Reputation: 12,145 Days Won: 68 Joined: 02/13/2014 Status: Offline Birthday: 08/14/1954 Share Posted May 8, 2019 21 minutes ago, Takoda said: You have a strange idea of blasphemy. Merriam-Webster 1 a. : blasphemy; the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence for God. OMG = Oh My God Sure seems like blasphemy to me. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amanda Frances Posted May 8, 2019 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 38 Topic Count: 365 Topics Per Day: 0.17 Content Count: 8,700 Content Per Day: 3.97 Reputation: 10,045 Days Won: 64 Joined: 03/27/2018 Status: Offline Share Posted May 8, 2019 1 minute ago, BeauJangles said: Merriam-Webster 1 a. : blasphemy; the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence for God. OMG = Oh My God Sure seems like blasphemy to me. I agree with you 100%. It is using Gods name in vain. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtletwo Posted May 8, 2019 Group: Royal Member Followers: 35 Topic Count: 1,192 Topics Per Day: 0.20 Content Count: 7,264 Content Per Day: 1.19 Reputation: 15,710 Days Won: 194 Joined: 07/15/2007 Status: Offline Share Posted May 8, 2019 I believe it to be blasphemy. The only time Christians should use these words is in prayer (such as crying out to the Lord." There are quite a few instances of this recorded in scripture. One example would be Psalm 38:21, "Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me." 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firm Foundation Posted May 9, 2019 Group: Mars Hill Followers: 4 Topic Count: 6 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 2,280 Content Per Day: 1.25 Reputation: 854 Days Won: 2 Joined: 03/31/2019 Status: Offline Share Posted May 9, 2019 It is not good to say that. All we can do is watch our own speech. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Marsh Posted May 24, 2019 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 5 Topic Count: 125 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 2,082 Content Per Day: 0.57 Reputation: 500 Days Won: 0 Joined: 04/03/2014 Status: Offline Birthday: 09/15/1956 Share Posted May 24, 2019 It all depends on what they are thinking when they say it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeauJangles Posted May 24, 2019 Group: Royal Member Followers: 44 Topic Count: 229 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 10,900 Content Per Day: 2.95 Reputation: 12,145 Days Won: 68 Joined: 02/13/2014 Status: Offline Birthday: 08/14/1954 Share Posted May 24, 2019 On 3/9/2019 at 10:11 AM, ejected said: Im talking about the one liner 'oh my God!' This is used for any occasion. Trouble-excitement-humor- it just slips out here and there and everywhere. 16 minutes ago, Daniel Marsh said: It all depends on what they are thinking when they say it. @Daniel Marsh An edit taken from the original poster. Hopefully this clears things up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnOrangeCat Posted May 25, 2019 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 5 Topic Count: 57 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1,382 Content Per Day: 0.27 Reputation: 1,800 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/24/2009 Status: Offline Share Posted May 25, 2019 15 hours ago, Daniel Marsh said: It all depends on what they are thinking when they say it. I'm going to have to disagree with this because it makes it an entirely internal thing. It isn't. Actions often have ripples that spread beyond ourselves. If I, as a Christian, took God's name lightly, even without meaning any disrespect, then everyone who witnesses that sees a Christian casually and vainly speaking of our Creator. They can't know my thoughts. They have to judge by actions and what they observe. If they observe me breaking one of the Ten Commandments then it raises the question of what other tenets of the Bible do I ignore. It amounts to a stain on our testimony to the world as Christians. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Marsh Posted May 26, 2019 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 5 Topic Count: 125 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 2,082 Content Per Day: 0.57 Reputation: 500 Days Won: 0 Joined: 04/03/2014 Status: Offline Birthday: 09/15/1956 Share Posted May 26, 2019 ok Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnD Posted May 27, 2019 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 0 Topic Count: 897 Topics Per Day: 0.19 Content Count: 9,621 Content Per Day: 2.03 Reputation: 5,821 Days Won: 9 Joined: 04/07/2011 Status: Offline Share Posted May 27, 2019 I have viewed this from both sides... meaning I was hyper sensitive to OMG and even Jeez (short for Jesus). God is a "big God" and I doubt he is so easily offended in that regard. He is more offended when we disbelieve his Son, or we try to add to the Gospel which he deliberately made so simple (for us) Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is unbelief in Jesus (especially dying in that state) for example. Yeah, I used to be very thin skinned on the subject... and if for you it's blasphemy then it is blasphemy OMG, Jeez, etc. Paul speaks about this "for conscience's sake" and we who are not so shaken by it should be consider of those who are. "If I offend my brother (or cause him to stumble), then may I not eat meat again." -Paul I found when I was what I consider myself to have been (not that I'm saying this about others... ) thin skinned on such matters it was more difficult to witness to the average person who say even more explicit things about God and who drop the "f" bomb with regularity. Does God want us holed up in monastery - like surroundings while the harvest in the fields of every generation perishes? Just remember the Christian and legal term created in the 1700's to avoid using the word "fornicate" (which is in the Bible btw)... was what we call the "f" bomb today. Look it up for yourselves. Just saying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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