CASE AGAINST CUSSING
Cussing is sin. We can know this because of the Bible. Cussing is not only bad because "ppl's feelings". It's because it originates from unGodliness. There is no "list of words" to avoid. If you say "elbow" not to say elbow, but in the manner the "f--" word is used, for example, you still sin. It's more about what's BEHIND the word than the word itself. Cussing is evidence the person has evil in their heart. It's not a word used out of Biblical love, but out of something else. Something worse. The regenerate person will try to AVOID such unproductive, useless, AND negative words. People get tricked into thinking cussing/cursing's cool, but actually, it's not. If anything it's cringe. But yes, it is important to avoid the specific words as well, no matter the language. Because of love, we should avoid these words that came from hate. From inception, they have already been "cursed".
Ephesians 4:29 "Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, that it may give grace to those who hear." NASB 1977
Most or all cusses originate from something negative or gross, like bodily functions. But the Bible doesn't want us to wallow in verbal mud that originates from unGodly anger. Cussing does nothing to build up our fellow man. All cusswords and cussing does is attack attack. Its sole purpose is to Denigrate, Destroy, Tear Down. If it acts like sin, Born Again Christians reject it as if it's sin, and it has a very similar effect compared to sin, you can bet it's sin!!
And it is diametrically opposed to love. 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
4Love is patient, love is kind, it is not jealous; love does not brag, it is not arrogant. 5 It does not act disgracefully, it does not seek its own benefit; it is not provoked, does not keep an account of a wrong suffered, 6 it does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 it keeps every confidence, it believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
People sometimes cuss because they are impatient. There's nothing patient about throwing a swer at something. Cussin' is extremely UNkind. Jealousy can make problems, and people sometimes react to those problems with.... you guessed it, a C-word. People who C are sometimes arrogant. But arrogance and cussin are FRUITS of a sin-riddled lifestyle. Target the source, and the fruits fall down. A solid Bible-based Christian worldview will eliminate or heavily damage those 2 fruits. Cussing is disgraceful. In fact, on American Heritage Dictionary of Eng Language, 5th Ed's definition of 'disgraceful', there is "profaneness is disgraceful to a man". People css sometimes for personal gain. Ie, to rile up another person's emotions for fun, or to scare him away. Probably the 2nd main cause of cussing is because is is provoked (the 1st is sin)! There is nothing hopeful or enduring about cussing. In fact, it can damage hope and it reflects caving-in to cussing desires.
The Bible says, "If someone says, “I love God,” and yet he hates his brother or sister, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother and sister whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen." 1 John 4:20
Also, it says "Everyone who hates his brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him." 1 John 3:15 . Since cussing is a fruit of unGodly hate, and ultimately a fruit of sin, cussing is Verbal Murder!! All humans are brothers and sisters because we all come from adam and eve. Cussing is an outgrowth of hate. Cast C-ing away from you, and pray to God to remove that desire from you, if that's what it takes.
Clearly, the Bible makes a STRONG case against cussing. A plain reading of Scripture will cause sincere Christians who desire God to want to NOT cuss. How can anyone honestly claim that cussing ISNT bad, in light of these facts?
Cussing is sin. We can know this because of the Bible. Cussing is not only bad because "ppl's feelings". It's because it originates from unGodliness. There is no "list of words" to avoid. If you say "elbow" not to say elbow, but in the manner the "f--" word is used, for example, you still sin. It's more about what's BEHIND the word than the word itself. Cussing is evidence the person has evil in their heart. It's not a word used out of Biblical love, but out of something else. Something worse. The regenerate person will try to AVOID such unproductive, useless, AND negative words. People get tricked into thinking cussing/cursing's cool, but actually, it's not. If anything it's cringe. But yes, it is important to avoid the specific words as well, no matter the language. Because of love, we should avoid these words that came from hate. From inception, they have already been "cursed".
Ephesians 4:29 "Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, that it may give grace to those who hear." NASB 1977
Most or all cusses originate from something negative or gross, like bodily functions. But the Bible doesn't want us to wallow in verbal mud that originates from unGodly anger. Cussing does nothing to build up our fellow man. All cusswords and cussing does is attack attack. Its sole purpose is to Denigrate, Destroy, Tear Down. If it acts like sin, Born Again Christians reject it as if it's sin, and it has a very similar effect compared to sin, you can bet it's sin!!
And it is diametrically opposed to love. 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
4Love is patient, love is kind, it is not jealous; love does not brag, it is not arrogant. 5 It does not act disgracefully, it does not seek its own benefit; it is not provoked, does not keep an account of a wrong suffered, 6 it does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 it keeps every confidence, it believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
People sometimes cuss because they are impatient. There's nothing patient about throwing a swer at something. Cussin' is extremely UNkind. Jealousy can make problems, and people sometimes react to those problems with.... you guessed it, a C-word. People who C are sometimes arrogant. But arrogance and cussin are FRUITS of a sin-riddled lifestyle. Target the source, and the fruits fall down. A solid Bible-based Christian worldview will eliminate or heavily damage those 2 fruits. Cussing is disgraceful. In fact, on American Heritage Dictionary of Eng Language, 5th Ed's definition of 'disgraceful', there is "profaneness is disgraceful to a man". People css sometimes for personal gain. Ie, to rile up another person's emotions for fun, or to scare him away. Probably the 2nd main cause of cussing is because is is provoked (the 1st is sin)! There is nothing hopeful or enduring about cussing. In fact, it can damage hope and it reflects caving-in to cussing desires.
The Bible says, "If someone says, “I love God,” and yet he hates his brother or sister, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother and sister whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen." 1 John 4:20
Also, it says "Everyone who hates his brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him." 1 John 3:15 . Since cussing is a fruit of unGodly hate, and ultimately a fruit of sin, cussing is Verbal Murder!! All humans are brothers and sisters because we all come from adam and eve. Cussing is an outgrowth of hate. Cast C-ing away from you, and pray to God to remove that desire from you, if that's what it takes.
Clearly, the Bible makes a STRONG case against cussing. A plain reading of Scripture will cause sincere Christians who desire God to want to NOT cuss. How can anyone honestly claim that cussing ISNT bad, in light of these facts?