Is OMG blasphemie?

[Takoda]

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.

[BeauJangles]

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. 

[Amanda Frances]

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. 

[turtletwo]

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."

[Firm Foundation]

It is not good to say that.  All we can do is watch our own speech.

[Daniel Marsh]

It all depends on what they are thinking when they say it. 

[BeauJangles]

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. 

[AnOrangeCat]

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.

[Daniel Marsh]

ok

[JohnD]

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.