Is it okay for Christians to curse?

[su_audio url=" [ommtop] [su_spoiler title="Click for transcription..." style="default" open="no"]The word curse means, "an offensive word or phrase used to express anger or annoyance." It is not uncommon nowadays to hear even professing Christians express words like God, Jesus Christ in a way that are essentially taking God's name in vain. It is cursing when the context in which these words are expressed disconnect them from what they ought to make ourselves and others think i.e. when you say Jesus Christ, I should think about the Son of God, which I don't when you express it as an expletive. The same applies when we use the word 'damn' or 'hell' and there's a disconnect from their true and solemn meaning. We're told in 1 Corinthians 13:5 that love does not behave itself unseemly, and Paul tells us in Ephesians 4:29, "Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers." So our language matters, and if you are a Christian, you should not be using crude and questionable language, or misusing the names of God.[/su_spoiler]

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Is it okay for Christians to curse? is an episode from One Minute Ministry | A Biblical Worldview Daily Devotional | Christian Questions on the Bible, Theology, and Apologetics by Armen Thomassian.

This episode is 01:30 long.

This episode was published on Apr 21, 2016.

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