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I really do not think OH my God is taking the Lord's name in vain at all--it actually comes from the Bible, Psalm 22--
"Oh my God" I cry out by day, and you do not answer,
by night and am not silent.
I also do not think Jesus Christ is a curse word if it is used rightly...I think there can be a vast difference between some non-Christian saying Jesus Christ when they get hurt, and a Christian actually calling out the name Jesus Christ when they are hurt as a prayer that He would save them from the situation. Stephen in a sense both looked to Jesus Christ and called out his name as He looked upon Him as he was getting stoned.
I wonder if we are really suppose to go to some secular saying instead of to Jesus Christ when we are in distress...for example, when I used to run I would harden myself and just strain myself to go forward, but then I saw that in my distress after a few miles when I felt like I could not go on, I was not relying on God but on myself, specifically hardening my will to go on...but then I started memorizing psalms and when I focused on them during these times, I found peace rather than discord in my heart, thus I could take refuge in the Lord rather than myself.
I think both "Oh my God" and "Jesus Christ" can be abbreviated forms of the beginning of Psalm 70
Hasten, O God, to save me,
O Lord, come quickly to help me.
And if they are sincere cries and not profanity, they will be heard...I personally find it strange that some people find them profane--so the name of Jesus Christ can be profane but Satan's name is not? So, if I stub my toe and then say "Satan" it is more right than if I called out and talked to God saying, "Oh my God, that hurt"--and truly was speaking to God?
I am suprised i am the only one that has written this in a Christian site...I used to curse or cuss a lot, but never with using either Oh my God or Jesus Christ, and it seems strange to me that some people do use them as profanity as I have seen...but I believe both sayings have roots in prayer before they were ever considered profane...so I say, reclaim them!!!
What I believe.
God bless
tony
ps...taking Jesus Christ name in vain has to do both with saying his name in a profane manner, and more elaborately claiming to be a Christian (taking on the name of God's people) and living as the heathen do...thus causing the ungodly to think the Lord is not holy...
"Oh my God" I cry out by day, and you do not answer,
by night and am not silent.
I also do not think Jesus Christ is a curse word if it is used rightly...I think there can be a vast difference between some non-Christian saying Jesus Christ when they get hurt, and a Christian actually calling out the name Jesus Christ when they are hurt as a prayer that He would save them from the situation. Stephen in a sense both looked to Jesus Christ and called out his name as He looked upon Him as he was getting stoned.
I wonder if we are really suppose to go to some secular saying instead of to Jesus Christ when we are in distress...for example, when I used to run I would harden myself and just strain myself to go forward, but then I saw that in my distress after a few miles when I felt like I could not go on, I was not relying on God but on myself, specifically hardening my will to go on...but then I started memorizing psalms and when I focused on them during these times, I found peace rather than discord in my heart, thus I could take refuge in the Lord rather than myself.
I think both "Oh my God" and "Jesus Christ" can be abbreviated forms of the beginning of Psalm 70
Hasten, O God, to save me,
O Lord, come quickly to help me.
And if they are sincere cries and not profanity, they will be heard...I personally find it strange that some people find them profane--so the name of Jesus Christ can be profane but Satan's name is not? So, if I stub my toe and then say "Satan" it is more right than if I called out and talked to God saying, "Oh my God, that hurt"--and truly was speaking to God?
I am suprised i am the only one that has written this in a Christian site...I used to curse or cuss a lot, but never with using either Oh my God or Jesus Christ, and it seems strange to me that some people do use them as profanity as I have seen...but I believe both sayings have roots in prayer before they were ever considered profane...so I say, reclaim them!!!
What I believe.
God bless
tony
ps...taking Jesus Christ name in vain has to do both with saying his name in a profane manner, and more elaborately claiming to be a Christian (taking on the name of God's people) and living as the heathen do...thus causing the ungodly to think the Lord is not holy...