Calling people names

[pc_76]

Particularly for Christians or Jewish people, what do you think of calling people names?
I realize the Bible has verses that warn about behaving "unclean" to fellow neighbors, but even Jesus showed angry action or language at things and his lamenting for unbelievers like the Pharisees.
Does God and the Bible always condemn calling names or derogatory and angry expressions in all context? Do you always condemn it?

 

[timothyu]

Hard to overcome, especially in nations where mockery and discrediting others is considered the usual way.

 

[jacks]

Often calling people names, is just a lazy way of disagreeing with them. Or it is a form of ridicule that also seems to lack imagination. All in all, I can't see name calling as having much going for it.

 

[Mark Quayle]

Particularly for Christians or Jewish people, what do you think of calling people names?
I realize the Bible has verses that warn about behaving "unclean" to fellow neighbors, but even Jesus showed angry action or language at things and his lamenting for unbelievers like the Pharisees.
Does God and the Bible always condemn calling names or derogatory and angry expressions in all context? Do you always condemn it?

Last two questions --no. There is a time for it, but not unmoderated. Christ was specific in what he called someone. Proverbs uses the word "fool" many times, but shows how a person is a fool. What hypocrites do is hypocritical --not idiotic, not diabolical (not saying it can't be those things, but) the name is accurate, not vindictive. Christ was not venting his frustrations --he was changing people's minds and actions, and cleaning house.

 

[Sketcher]

Jesus called the Pharisees "brood of vipers," so I don't see why I wouldn't be able to in the right context. That's of course the exception, rather than the rule.

 

[Mark Quayle]

Jesus called the Pharisees "brood of vipers," so I don't see why I wouldn't be able to in the right context. That's of course the exception, rather than the rule.

You've got a point. I stand corrected.

 

[Presbyterian Continuist]

Particularly for Christians or Jewish people, what do you think of calling people names?
I realize the Bible has verses that warn about behaving "unclean" to fellow neighbors, but even Jesus showed angry action or language at things and his lamenting for unbelievers like the Pharisees.
Does God and the Bible always condemn calling names or derogatory and angry expressions in all context? Do you always condemn it?

Read Galatians 5:22-23 and see whether there is anything there that shows that angry language and name calling is connected to the fruit of the Spirit.

 

[akaDaScribe]

Ask yourself, "What's your motivation?"

 

[sunshineforJesus]

I think name calling is mean and shouldn't be done.

 

[W2L]

Jesus called the Pharisees "brood of vipers," so I don't see why I wouldn't be able to in the right context. That's of course the exception, rather than the rule.

Jesus spoke God the fathers word. What about us? Whos word do we speak?

 

[timothyu]

Whos word do we speak?

Most of us were taught to speak by our parents, and then our schools, churches and governments. As a result most speak with forked tongues.

 

[W2L]

Most of us were taught to speak by our parents, and then our schools, churches and governments. As a result most speak with forked tongues.

I asked God to teach me by understanding scripture. I surely dont know everything however but neither does the modern day Church, so im no worse off than the Church.

 

[timothyu]

I surely dont know everything however but neither does the modern day Church, so im no worse off than the Church.

Their motives may be different.

 

[W2L]

Their motives may be different.

How so?

 

[timothyu]

How so?

A person seeking, seeks understanding. An institution survives on physical support first and foremost, the message being a by-product. The earliest churches supported no institution, they supported each other and yet the message spread... simply because that was the message.

 

[brinny]

It's a sin. One that i've committed many times, accompanied by a slew of cuss words. Yet God is faithful in that He WILL reign us in as He changes the heart that these words were generated from. For me it was a bit like "slam poetry". But God changed my heart drastically, as only He could.

I no longer have a "taste" for slamming others or for that kind of "slam poetry", so to speak.

It's a sin, and something i surrendered to God. Calling names is a form of "hatred". It indicates a heart that is bereft of grace and not quite surrendered to God.

 

[W2L]

A person seeking, seeks understanding. An institution survives on physical support first and foremost, the message being a by-product. The earliest churches supported no institution, they supported each other and yet the message spread... simply because that was the message.

I prefer simplicity over tradition.

 

[W2L]

It's a sin. One that i've committed many times, accompanied by a slew of cuss words. Yet God is faithful in that He WILL reign us in as He changes the heart that these words were generated from. For me it was a bit like "slam poetry". But God changed my heart drastically, as only He could.

I no longer have a "taste" for slamming others or for that kind of "slam poetry", so to speak.

It's a sin, and something i surrendered to God. Calling names is a form of "hatred". It indicates a heart that is bereft of grace and not quite surrendered to God.

Me too. The old us is gone praise the Lord, and in with the new.

 

[timothyu]

I prefer simplicity over tradition.

Exactly. Another name for tradition is blind leading the blind.

 

[timothyu]

Calling names is a form of "hatred". It indicates a heart that is bereft of grace and not quite surrendered to God.

No wonder it is so popular amongst those Christians politically inclined. Wrong governance, man over God.