I mean, it's straight out blasphemy. And I know lots of good Christians that do it. "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain".
It's right there in the 2nd commandment. IT'S BEFORE THOU SHALT NOT KILL!!!
You see what I'm saying?
Anyhow,I think peeps should start saying "OM2!" as in "Oh my second commandment!". Just would be more courteous to Him, ya know?
I understand what you mean. Before I was a Christian, I used the Lord's name in vain a lot. And I mean really bad. I enjoyed it. One of my favourites was JFC, if you understand what that means (I hope I don't have to put the -ing in there to get the point across, I hate thinking about how profane I was). When I became a Christian, the Lord's name took on a personal meaning for me; once in a while I'll slip up and say oh my g-- instead of oh my gosh, but even saying oh my g-- in a casual way to me is wrong (and whenever I do slip up and say oh my g--, it seems so wrong coming from me and I wonder why it comes out sometimes).
The Lord's name is sacred and holy and should not be thrown around in a casual way. I think oh my g-- is okay if you've just heard something quite profound or something like that and want to invoke the Lord's name in a meaningful way; I have said that a few times. But it seems lots of people, and it seems Christians too, would say it in a setting such as if someone came up to them and said, "Hey, I just bought a new house today!" (or something along those lines, I'm bad at coming up with examples) and they're like, "oh my g--! That's great!" I think that's a profane use of the Lord's name.
All that aside however, I do think that Christians encounter the Lord on different levels. Some perhaps have not come into spiritual contact with the fraction of the Lord's holiness that those of us who refrain from taking the Lord's name in vain have experienced. I don't mean that in a holier-than-thou way at all; just the facts. Some Christians have been struck more with the Lord's presence than others and that is in fact the only way that that way of acting can be explained in their lives. Just as some are more sanctified than others; actually, I think it is the same thing, what I said above: it is just that some are more sanctified than others.
There is nothing horribly wrong with that-- what I mean is, we as Christians should strive to become more sanctified in all ways; the pursuit of godliness should be more of a dedication to us than the pursuit of worldly comfortability. However, another Christian shouldn't look down on another Christian (in such a way that they elevate themselves) because they take the Lord's name in vain in such a way as saying oh my g--. It can and probably should be encouraged that they shouldn't do this and to remember that the Lord's name is sacred. Yet, let us remember that all the ways in which we follow Christ are free gifts of his grace; we would not have been able to do any of it without his giving us this ability and preparing the way for these good works.
