#3rd commandment

[trainbrain27]

Those must be the numbers I've heard people doing.

[just-bible-musings]

Can someone explain to me why the F word still gets censored, yet people take God's name in vain and condemn people left and right in media and on social media?

The 3rd commandment:

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Exodus 20:7

This includes omg, jc (or just j or just c), gd, and probably a few I've never heard.

And as for "damn" and "hell':

Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven: Luke 6:37

Biblically speaking, "condemn" means "send someone to hell," such as all the verses in the Pauline Epistles where he talks about how sins condemn a person.

I remember when I used to watch Supernatural, before I came to Jesus. I always thought it was funny when they would censor the F word. ("What the f-" "Find something, Ash?") But in a show about monsters and demons and angels, where several of the characters literally went to hell, they still said "damn" and "hell" at the drop of a hat.

And I just have to wonder, why?

Now, I don't know about other people, and maybe this isn't anyone's intention, but I've often thought that when people say "f u" or "go f yourself" or whatever, that they're saying "go get raped." Maybe that's not the intention, but that's the mental image I get in my head.

Please understand, I don't say this lightly. I've never been sexually abused, and I don't mean to offend anyone who has been. Rape is one of the WORST things that can happen to a person, probably 2nd only to dying (and I've known rape victims who wish they'd been killed instead- and a woman who's never even had sex, yeah, I can understand that).

But my question is, why do we consider it worse to curse someone's body than to curse their soul? The body will die, eventually, but the soul never will. And why is it worse to say a bad thing about a person than about God? God is higher than any human and has an unfathomable amount of power, because he is omnipotent.

Is it just because rape (or even just sex) is seen as a real threat that can happen to anyone? Whereas both God and hell are thought to be abstract ideas, or even mythology, by so many people? Is it because rape is something that could happen to you, but God and hell are "just stories" and they can't hurt you?

Just something I've thought about from time to time and decided it was time to share.

[petitionerofmoonrus]

3rd Commandment of Moonrus

Thalt shall use what ever gender to identify as and use what ever pronouns to describe yourself as long as makes you feel comfortable.

[lifeinlighthouse]

So, as we understand who Jesus is... As we magnificently behold the name, and the glory, and the goodness of Jesus, we become smaller and happier. That’s why people hike mountains, they want to feel small. That’s why people go outside in the middle of the night in the middle of nowhere to gaze upon the stars, because they feel like nothing. That’s why people drive to the edge of the Grand Canyon to peer over the cliff, because it reminds them that they’re not the center and it’s not all about their name. And when we feel small and we’re in the presence of something greater, we feel liberated and freed because we now see ourselves in the place that we truly are—not that big, not that important, not that significant—and it’s liberating and freeing.

Mark Driscoll

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