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The Curse of Cussing: A Biblical Defense of Wholesome Language in a…
The Curse of Cussing: A Biblical Defense of Wholesome Language in a Culture of Profanity
What does the Bible teach?
Deut 5:11, 6:4-9
The Lord punishes those who rob the genuine meaning of God's name.
Israel will take this command into their homes as instruction to their children and decor for the walls.
Ephesians 4:29 (Ma 12:34; Eph 5:4; Col 3:8)
Paul instructs believers to say things which, in a timely manner, build up others in contrast to language characterized by the stench of rotting flesh.
What is Profanity?
The Parts of Profanity
Blatanly taking God's name in vain
God D-mn, D-mn, Oh my G-d
Incendiary Language
f-word, h-ll, heck, son of a b-tch
"Foul" language
a-s, sh-t, crap
What is it?
Words engaged in verbal or written language which carry an inherent "dig" at a person or thing.
Profanity is like Porn
Langue has an emotinal element. Using anything percieved as strong give the peaker a false sense of power. Also, it feels good for people to affect others.
The hurt tend to hurt, especially with words. The powerless grab onto anything which feels powerful.
It hastens a person's ability to communicate anger, frustration, stress, dissatifcation...at the expense of clarity and subtlety.
Profanity creates a false sense of meaning in our words in our attempt to communicate to others in the world.
The Cure for a Culture of Profanity
Salvation reverses the effects of sin to a degree. Partially in temporal life, fully in eternal life.
Speech is one area where we can experience the reversal of sin. Therefore, a believer can eliminate the speech produced from a profane heart and replace it with expressions that are faithful to the beauty and glory of the Spirit-filled life.
Eliminating every category of profanity requires a change of heart and mind. We believe every person
speaks
from an overflow of the heart, the inner man.
Eliminating the thoughts that produce profanity is not enough. We must also replace it with linguistic harmony that honors Christ with expressive language. Eph 4:29, 5:1-21