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As we would agree Baptist, Jesus' words were not sin, nor were they out of line. What he stated was true, and he has been given the keys to life or death, so he makes the call. I understand why he did it, they tried to undue every bit of good things he did. Of course Christians are no stranger to this, observe how many try to undue the good seeds I plant. No doubt Jesus takes note of this sir.
And of course saying the word hell is not either, but even though you increased the serious of the word no, you really didn't use it in it's intended way.
Curse words are only bad because they have been deemed bad over time by their meaning and or context....cursing is a very trivial affair if you ask me. S**t is thought of as a curse word in the US, but crap is not. They mean the same thing which shows that all language is manmade and changes over time.
Indeed.
The works of Shakespeare contain the exclamations 'Zounds!' (from God's wounds, referring to the wounds of Jesus on the cross) and 'Gadzooks!' (God's hooks, referring the nails on the cross), both used for effect because at the time they were emphatic, very impolite profane terms. Today? They sound like something out of a Scooby-Doo episode.
When George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion debuted in London in 1913, the inclusion of 'bloody' ("Not bloody likely!") caused a stir. The Daily Mail obliquely referred to the word and the effect it had on the audience, while refusing to actually print the term itself.
Cursing is cultural. In Great Britain the word "bloody" is considered poor language.
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It has been a British intensive swear word at least since 1676. Weekley relates it to the purely intensive use of the cognate Dutch bloed, German Blut. But perhaps it ultimately is connected with bloods in the slang sense of "rowdy young aristocrats" (see blood (n.)) via expressions such as bloody drunk "as drunk as a blood."
Partridge reports that it was "respectable" before c. 1750, and it was used by Fielding and Swift, but heavily tabooed c. 1750-c. 1920, perhaps from imagined association with menstruation; Johnson calls it "very vulgar," and OED writes of it, "now constantly in the mouths of the lowest classes, but by respectable people considered 'a horrid word', on par with obscene or profane language."
Every generation invents "sins" that people should "stay away" from. As a young man, a few of these were card-playing, rock and roll music, dancing, drinking, and even smoking (except in the tobacco growing south).
It is cultural and has nothing to do with God.
On the other hand, I think cursing can be an effective venting of emotion if used on very rare occasions. In today's society it has lost it's impact from overuse. Perhaps after this generation, "a plague upon you" will once again become a terrible curse.
Every generation invents "sins" that people should "stay away" from. As a young man, a few of these were card-playing, rock and roll music, dancing, drinking, and even smoking (except in the tobacco growing south).
It is cultural and has nothing to do with God.
On the other hand, I think cursing can be an effective venting of emotion if used on very rare occasions. In today's society it has lost it's impact from overuse. Perhaps after this generation, "a plague upon you" will once again become a terrible curse.
Yup...Same with the ‘F’ word...If you really think about it, we DID really create our own cache of expletives...I doubt that when G-d bestowed the miracle of languages on man that He said, “And here is the list of words that I consider a sin using, and if you do, you will burn in hell!”...
Swearing and cursing are prohibited in the Bible...However, swearing, as in taking an oath, like in the name of G-d (Do not take G-d’s Name in vain)...And cursing as in what WD said above, “a plague upon you!”...
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