What words are okay?

LadyShea

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Susan, do you really think it is offensive to ANYONE ON THE PLANET or to the God you worship to ask for a "piece" of cake or announce you are off to mail a "package"? You begged God not to strike you dead for using two normal words in normal everyday sentences....do you think that's okay and healthy?

Here is how I decide a cuss word...would I say it in front of my Grandma?
 
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You guys are gonna worry yourselves into an early grave. Commendations on trying to please God...... but uh.........

If you can't handle instrumental music because it was written by a secular person........ my thoughts are best left untyped. I guess I can let three words go............

Don't be stupid:)
 
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Cuss words are just like any other word in the sense that they only have meaning given to them by others. If I'm speaking strictly in biological terms, the "A word" is merely a donkey (And as I recall, it's even in the KJV of the Bible somewhere). It's the meaning behind the words that a given person is trying to portray that matters. Words are only as valuable as men think they are, since they are used to portray thoughts (so you should be more concerned with the thought behind the word instead of the actual sound coming out of someone's mouth).

Some people will be offended by even the most mild of "cuss words" (i.e. "dang," "darn," "shoot," etc). To most people (from my experience), these aren't "cuss words," and wouldn't be given a second thought. However, if my using them causes someone else to spiritually stumble, or if it causes me to lose credability as an ambassedor for Christ, I should stop saying it in front of them. This situation is summed up and addressed in 1 Corinthians 10:23-33, and that's the guidelines I try to go by.
 
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The bottom line here is your relationship with God.  There is no black and white, clear-cut, right or wrong answer other than that.  You have your own levels of conviction concerning these matters and as is with anything in your life, you need to step back and see if it’s edifying you and others or if it’s building up walls, hindering your Christianity and becoming a "stumbling block" to others.  How you define these boundaries are, like I said, a matter of personal conviction.

I can elaborate more if need be and I can give all kinds of accounts of personal experience as well as experience from being a youth counselor.  Pray about it.

“Much prayer, much power.  Little prayer, little power.”  ;)
 
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Maybe. . .but Rize made the point that music cannot be analyzed and broken down like words can. That it cannot be interpreted in one way or another, but rather is a direct influence of the mind and emotions.
 
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Originally posted by unworthyone


Abusive to who? It doesn't offend me.

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I don't know. I have no reason to talk about human excrement to God, but honestly, I don't think He'd care what word I used for it.

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Thats the point. Someone, somewhere will find an excuse to get annoyed or offended at anything.



I started the thread because I honestly don't know. I just think if we as a society weren't a bunch of pansies there wouldn't be a problem. [/B]

Read the Bible verse.  I'm trying to tell you that the BIBLE SAYS that the PEOPLE around you define the nature of the words.  Read it and ask yourself if that doesn't apply to words as well as foods?
 
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Originally posted by Rize
Read the Bible verse.  I'm trying to tell you that the BIBLE SAYS that the PEOPLE around you define the nature of the words.  Read it and ask yourself if that doesn't apply to words as well as foods?

Yes it does. But some people find all these words offensive:

Quarter, lick, suck, shoot, dang, darn, man, wow, oops, dumbo, booboo, jimmy, dude, [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse], creamcake, fool, crazyboy, gorilla and most of all sack.

So do I scratch them from thought?
 
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