Surprisingly for myself, the question of cussing has come up recently among me and my friends, especially when I began using some "minor" swear words. I had myself a little pow-wow with a piece of paper, pencil and my Bible to try to discover should Christians cuss.
*Disclaimer: if your parents/guardians tells you shouldn't cuss, you shouldn't cuss. God has commanded us to respect our elders and the authorities He has placed over us. If you're looking for a way out of it, there isn't one. The only gray area is when you move out and your parents are taking care of you anymore. That is the only way I think that you can do something against your parents. At that point parent's can give us advice, but in the end it's up to God.*
*Disclaimer 2: I will be using censored versions of words for clarification, so if that offends you please don't tell me it does. I warned you*
Outside of that, should Christians cuss? What I found interesting is that although the Scriptures do tell us to let unholy words come out of our lips, it doesn't really specify in that passage what "unholy words" are. You look elsewhere and find that Jesus speaks against coarse joking, putting other people down with our words, and lying but He doesn't come right out say "You shouldn't cuss". This is most likely because there wasn't any real "cuss" words around in 30 AD. So how do we apply this to today?
One of my friends said that cuss words are just jumbled up letters that people have formed bad connotations to. Most people don't immediately freak out when someone says "poop" but some people do when you drop the s-bomb. Same meaning, but society has attached bad connotations to it. Here's my opinion.
Christians shouldn't use cuss words to put down other people. You shouldn't put other people down period. An example would be "Look at her, she looks like a piece of s***." An example of not putting someone down is when you stub your toe and you cry out the s-bomb.
Like I said, I'm not sure about this one. This one is more for discussion.
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i agree.the Bible didn't really specify what to not say.so i've completely given up cussing. i used to be pretty about it but like a year ago i sat down and "had a conversation" with God. and i thought/think that He didn't want us using cuss words to hurt others or down talk anyone or thing. i've gotten pretty good about it and now i don't even cuss when i get hurt. I think it's an issue that all Christians should think about it whether they intend to cuss or not
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