Is cussin really a sin?

[1yugioh]

Ha everyone! I have asked this question like 2 times and never really got a response so hopefully asking it in this section will work.


An argument against cussing is 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 (KJV)

I take this to mean don't verbally go off on someone out of anger, weather its cussing, calling names, our just using foul language to be rude.we should say things that will make them feel better not tear them down.

However, most see this as telling us not to cuss at all ever, now its really hard to put this into action since what is and is not a cuss word is cultural. Most even say it means don't use foul or rude language, but I could say something innocent and have it come across as rude.

So in your personal opinion is this scripture

1.telling us not to cuss at all.

2. Or is it telling us not to verbally abuse someone when were mad at them, whether it be cussing or insulting?

Seriously I really am confused between these two different interpretations of the meaning. HELP!

Now I'm not looking for a reason to cuss. It is rude and makes you sound unintelligent, and I'm trying to avoid it. But I just want to know which of these interpretations is correct. I would hate to not be able to sing "I dream a dream" to my mom anymore just because it has the word h**l in it.

Or turn down a role in a movie because the script calls for cussing.(I'm trying to go into acting)

 

[Purge187]

It's both. I don't think we'll know how powerful our words were until Judgment Day.

"The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the whole course of one's life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell." - James 3:6

I sometimes let loose with words that I shouldn't, usualy when I'm frustrated or startled. We're human. It's important to confess them with our other shortcomings.

 

[1yugioh]

So should I not even sing a song to my mom when she asks cuz the word H**L is in it. I mean that seams a little extreme and it kind of feels like were going outside the context of that scripture.

 

[Purge187]

Hell isn't a cuss--it's a place.

 

[IndyEllis]

Cursing = "D-mn you!" or "Go to H-ll!" or otherwise targeting supernatural ill will (a "curse") on someone else. It's kind of like "judging" where we do something we may not have sufficient credentials to do.

Swearing = "For Christ's sake!" or "I swear to God!" "Gadzooks!" (which would mean "by God's hooks" referring to the crucifixion). Not simply letting your yay be a yay and a nay be a nay be interjecting supernatural agency and maybe consequence on the promise or threat. Swearing concerns oath-making.

Vulgarity = Other potty talk--usually some sort of less-than-polite wording of some sort of body part or sexual or other usage of said part. Vulgarity is profane.

"Cussin'" is a contraction of cursing. And the Bible does say much about casting spells and damning other people on God's behalf.

In fact, when reading these ancient authors about their thoughts and their thoughts about God's thought, cursing/damning and sweating/oath-making and vulgarity/profanity are very different things to them.

But I'm not sure that's what you mean. You may have meant all of these lumped together in common, modern vernacular.

Eph 4:29 suggests a graciousness in speech. I don't thing it's about technicalities about words that can't be spoken on television.

I've listened to people cut others down with slash-and-burn techniques to their soul and spirit without ever uttering a fowl word.

I've listened to people do with the Bible as their own two-edged sword wielding their own tongues cuts as if the battle were that of Armageddon.

I've met many people who would rather have a legalistic list of things they don't say yet still be quite verbally brutal.

“Here is my servant, whom I uphold,
my chosen one in whom I delight;
I will put my Spirit on him,
and he will bring justice to the nations.
He will not shout or cry out,
or raise his voice in the streets.
A bruised reed he will not break,
and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out.
In faithfulness he will bring forth justice;
he will not falter or be discouraged
till he establishes justice on earth.
In his teaching the islands will put their hope."

You can interpret the passage as you choose.

How you interpret it will tell us what you do and don't value.

 

[1yugioh]

Well there's really nothing to interpret its pretty straight forward.
a man sends his servant out to bring justice to the world without ever yelling to prove a point or using violence.

At least I think "A bruised reed he will not break,and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out." means he will do it without using violence

It seams its about God sending out Jesus to save us.

 

[SilentShadow100]

Hatred is a sin. Using any words to express hatred to another is a sin. If the words do not do that, there is no difference between them and the word "balloon."

 

[IndyEllis]

At least I think "A bruised reed he will not break,and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out." means he will do it without using violence

It seams its about God sending out Jesus to save us.

That would be a Messianic interpretation of 2nd Isaiah. Could also be interpreted that it's about Christ-within too.

Christ-within the Church.

Christ-within you.

The story goes that it's the Lamb that wins in the end and it's self-sacrificial giving that endures.

Between faith, hope and love? The greatest of these is love.

There's really no need to curse or to swear or to be profane if such is inevitable.

 

[IndyEllis]

LAMENT

Weep, weep for those
Who do the work of the Lord
With a high look,
And a proud heart.
Their voice is lifted up
In the streets, and their cry is heard.
The bruised reed they break
By their great strength, and the smoking flax
They trample.
Weep not for the quenched
(For their God will hear their cry
And the Lord will come to save them)
But weep, weep for the quenchers.
For when the Day of the Lord
Is come, and the vales sing
And the hills clap their hands
And the light shines
Then their eyes shall be opened
On a waste place,
Smoldering,
The smoke of flax bitter
In their nostrils,
Their feet pierced
By broken reed-stems . . .
Wood, hay and stubble,
And no grass springing,
And all the birds flown.
Weep, weep for those
Who have made a desert
In the name of the Lord.

~Evangeline Paterson

 

[ebedmelech]

Cussin' is derived from the word "curse", which is the Hebrew word " 'arar", which basically is word or phrases used to express that one detest another.
Blue Letter Bible - Lexicon :: H779

In the Greek to "curse" is the Greek word " kakologeo", which means "to speak evil of":
Blue Letter Bible - Lexicon :: G2551

Yes...the word of God tells us not to curse (or cuss), which is to speak evile of others or to use contemptible words toward others...