What Christians Say..

[darin]

Due to a recent topic, I've put-together a list of things said by folk who claim to be Christians.

• Dammit!
• Fuck that!
• Shit
• Piece of fucking shit
• Piece of Shit
• Hell (yes/no, etc)!
• and you anally rape little boys. enjoy some sweet young virgin ass.[said directly to me, actually, from a professing christian]
• suck it!

See - I don't have a 'holy' and 'non-holy' list of words. IMO, the 'bad' in words is purely driven by context.

If I'm mad at somebody and call him a piece of shit - it's the SAME as if I called him a piece of Poop. Using 'poop' doesn't make the sentiment any less hateful or unloving.

Likewise (and Jeff knows THIS analogy) on Madden, etc, when I make a good play and say "yeahh bitch! Take it!" there's no animosity or hatred or anger there - only manly-competition, etc.

Thoughts?

[BoogyMan]

Foul language is simply foul language my friend, and it is condemned. You will never find an example of my having used such language on this or any other board.

[5stringJeff]

I still disagree that such language is becoming of a Christian, regardless of context. I still find myself using such words on occasion, but I do my best not to.

[AFbombloader]

Nobody is perfect and I doubt any of us claim to be. Christians struggle with all sorts of things and using foul language is one of them. It doesn't make us any less Christian. We all sin, and always will.

AF

[BoogyMan]

The point, AFBombloader, is that you are to try to do better. It might behoove you to read Colossians 4:5-6 and Ephesians 4:29.

[AFbombloader]

The point, AFBombloader, is that you are to try to do better. It might behoove you to read Colossians 4:5-6 and Ephesians 4:29.

I agree completely, and I hope I did not appear to approve of using colorful expressions. I do struggle with this and I do try not to use it. I am familiar with both verses you pointed me to and know of more that tell us how we should conduct ourselves. Thanks!

AF

[-Cp]

The point, AFBombloader, is that you are to try to do better. It might behoove you to read Colossians 4:5-6 and Ephesians 4:29.

What do those scriptures have to do with the context of the original post?

[darin]

The point, AFBombloader, is that you are to try to do better. It might behoove you to read Colossians 4:5-6 and Ephesians 4:29.

So....is 'poop-head' not sinful, but 'shit head' is?

[darin]

I still disagree that such language is becoming of a Christian, regardless of context. I still find myself using such words on occasion, but I do my best not to.

Context dictates. Always.

[AFbombloader]

What do those scriptures have to do with the context of the original post?

A better series of verses is Romans 3:9-18, specifically vs. 14. These verses say the nno one is righteous and we all have made and will make mistakes. I will leave up to the Lord to judge me.

AF

[PostmodernProphet]

it can have it's purpose....

I Corinthians 9
19 For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win the more; 20 and to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might win Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law,[c] that I might win those who are under the law; 21 to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God,[d] but under law toward Christ[e]), that I might win those who are without law; 22 to the weak I became as[f] weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.

[darin]

absolutely, PMP.

[5stringJeff]

Context dictates. Always.

So in which context would it be OK for me to, say, have sex with a little college hottie?

[darin]

So in which context would it be OK for me to, say, have sex with a little college hottie?

If you were married to her.

[5stringJeff]

If you were married to her.

Exactly, because the Bible is clear that sex is reserved for marriage, and that extramarital sex, regardless of context, is a sin - just as the Bible says that cussing, regardless of context, is a sin.