Comments on: What the Bible Actually Says about “Swearing” and “Cursing”… https://blog.nathanlandisfunk.com/2013/09/30/what-the-bible-actually-says-about-swearing-and-cursing/ Musings of a Singer-Songwriter & Sojourner Sun, 01 Jun 2014 13:20:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: Kira Shcherbakova https://blog.nathanlandisfunk.com/2013/09/30/what-the-bible-actually-says-about-swearing-and-cursing/#comment-32 Sun, 01 Jun 2014 13:20:32 +0000 http://liveitreal.org/?p=2907#comment-32 I respectfully disagree Nathan. The Bible says, “What’s in the heart is what comes out from the lips.” (Paraphrased) So the words we speak reflect what we think and feel. If we speak vulgar words, then that’s what we’re filled with inside. It’s not about the philosophy of language, it’s about the state of our heart.

]]> By: admin https://blog.nathanlandisfunk.com/2013/09/30/what-the-bible-actually-says-about-swearing-and-cursing/#comment-31 Sat, 12 Oct 2013 03:00:55 +0000 http://liveitreal.org/?p=2907#comment-31 Thanks for the thoughts Hunter. Found an interesting addendum:

“A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. The point is that the process is reversible. Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble. If one gets rid of these habits one can think more clearly, and to think clearly is a necessary first step toward political regeneration: so that the fight against bad English is not frivolous and is not the exclusive concern of professional writers.”
-George Orwell

]]> By: Hunter https://blog.nathanlandisfunk.com/2013/09/30/what-the-bible-actually-says-about-swearing-and-cursing/#comment-30 Tue, 01 Oct 2013 14:44:13 +0000 http://liveitreal.org/?p=2907#comment-30 I don’t know if I agree. I think that the whole argument that “swear words are just words” doesn’t really sit right. I think it’s a bit of a cop out, and I’m all for encouraging people to stop worrying, or feeling shame towards things that they are doing, but I don’t think Jesus walked around “swearing” in his day, even when those guys were messing up his father’s house. And the lips speak the overflow of the heart. I think that if these words are unacceptable RIGHT NOW in our culture, then we ought not to use them. Any of them. It’s not a matter of comparing holiness, it’s a matter of striving to be holy in your own life in order to get all that crap out of the way. But. I do agree that we need to stop measuring and comparing and judging each other; with smoking, drinking, and swearing. But it’s still not ok to do it.

]]> By: Dwight https://blog.nathanlandisfunk.com/2013/09/30/what-the-bible-actually-says-about-swearing-and-cursing/#comment-29 Tue, 01 Oct 2013 11:01:48 +0000 http://liveitreal.org/?p=2907#comment-29 Super article! A great wake up call to everyone. You are so right on how many Evangelical Christians judge a person’s character by what comes out of their mouths, or if they smoke, or oh my goodness they drink (oh those sipping, smokin’, swearing saints). Too often not we judge a person by what they wear, work, do, etc., me included in this group. What does the Father look at the heart and what is in it! Thanks for stepping out and setting a new line in the sand.

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