Religion & Spirituality

Only logged in members can reply and interact with the post.
Join SimilarWorlds for FREE »

The Bible warns. 5 Things You Shouldn't Say as a Christian Don't say it like that

We often forget that what we say has a huge impact on our thoughts, attitudes and relationships with others. We speak hundreds or even thousands of words every day,
and we often forget how powerful they are. As Christians, we have a special responsibility for our words because the Bible emphasizes the importance of speech as an
instrument of good or bad service.
As the Book of Proverbs says, "Death and life depend on the tongue." That's why today we'd like to look at five things we as Christians should stop saying, according
to the teachings of the Bible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB2_HUOT9PQ

In the book of Deuteronomy, in chapter five, we read: "You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not go unpunished who takes
His name in vain." So what is taking the name of the Lord in vain and why is it so serious? Taking God's name in vain means saying His name for no reason other
than to express anger, disappointment or other negative emotions.
This is something that is very displeased with God. Taking His name in vain is not only offensive to Him, but also to other people who hear these words.
Taking the name of the Lord in vain, therefore, is a violation of the principle of respect for God and other people.
We should remember that God is holy and worthy of respect, and His name should be used with reverence and dignity. When talking about God, we should choose our words
carefully and avoid using His name in negative contexts. These days, many people say, "Oh, my God," in reference to trivial things or situations where this call
is out of place.
In the Bible, the name of God is considered something special and sacred. Therefore, by saying "Oh my God" to trivial things, such as a bus delay or as
an expression of displeasure, people are breaking these rules and showing disrespect to God. Meanwhile, we should remember that God is holy and worthy of
respect, and His name should be used with caution and seriousness.
As Christians, we have a moral obligation to keep our promises and keep our word. There are many examples in the Bible that show how important it is to
keep the promises we make to others and to God. Jesus spoke of the importance of keeping your word when he said, "Let your speech be this: yes, no: no.
For whatever is beyond that comes from evil."
This means that as Christians we should be people of the word and stick to our promises, because otherwise our words may be considered untrustworthy.
As Christians, we must remember that our words have power, and we should hold to our promises with complete seriousness and respect for God and others.
When we make a promise, we should be sure that we can keep it, and if we are not sure, we should think before making it. In the book of Ecclesiastes, chapter five,
we read: "It is better not to take a vow than not to keep what one has vowed. Do not let your mouth cause your flesh to sin, and do not say to God's messenger that
it was an oversight. Why did God should be angry at your speech and annihilate the work of your hands?"
In this passage from Ecclesiastes, King Solomon reminds us of the importance of keeping our promises. Making promises is easy, but keeping them takes dedication
and responsibility. Christians should be examples to others in keeping their words and promises.
Our world is full of promises that are often broken. This creates a lack of trust and damages interpersonal relationships. As Christians, we should stand
out in our conduct and be people of the word who keep our promises. As Christians, we have a responsibility to follow the moral principles that have been given
to us in the Bible.
One of the important rules is to respect the language and refrain from using vulgar words. Often under the influence of emotions, stress or tension, we say
things that we later regret. However, as the Bible reminds us, our words matter and affect our lives and the lives of others.
In Ephesians chapter 4, we read, "Let no evil word come out of your mouth, but only good words that can help in need and that will benefit those who hear."
This passage of the Bible reminds us that our words should always be good and constructive, helping and benefiting others.
Using vulgar language, swearing or insulting other people is not in line with these rules. Such behavior can hurt others as well as negatively affect our own
lives and relationships. As Christians, we should be guided by moral principles and refrain from using vulgar language, cursing, or insulting other people.
As Christians, we believe that God is holy and requires us to be holy as well. We cannot, therefore, first use vulgar language, and then with the same mouth,
worship God who is Holy. As Christians, we should remember that our mouth is a tool that can be used for both good and evil purposes.
Avoiding bad language will help us keep our hearts and spirits pure. As Christians, we should not, indeed, cannot speak words that are superstitious.
Many people believe that superstition helps them cope with everyday problems or bring them happiness, but for a Christian, such behavior is inappropriate.
As Christians, we should be guided by faith and trust in God, not superstition. Superstitions often contradict our faith and should have no place in our lives.

The Bible says in the book of Deuteronomy: "There will be no one among you who will lead his son or daughter through fire, practice divination, witchcraft,
prophecies and sorcery, practice spells, ask ghosts and ghosts, address the dead For everyone who does these things is detestable to the LORD, and because of
these abominations, the LORD your God is driving them out from before you."
In these words, the Lord God clearly says that superstition, divination and witchcraft are disgusting to Him. As Christians, we should rely on God and pray to
Him when we need help or support. We should not seek support from superstitions that are contrary to our faith.
When we talk about superstitions, it often leads to entertaining dangerous and harmful practices, such as card reading and witchcraft. It is important to
remember that God is the only one who can help and support us.
There is no need to seek help elsewhere because He is always with us and ready to help us in any situation. As Christians, we should trust and rely on His
word and prayer, not superstition. Let us remember that superstitions are contrary to our faith and should not have a place in our lives. It is worth
remembering that God is the only one who can help us and give us support.
As Christians, we believe that God is omnipotent and knows what is best for our way of life. However, sometimes difficulties and problems arise in our lives
that make us "dictate" to God what He should do in our lives. We tell him what decisions he should make, what he should give us, and what miracles he should perform.

Unfortunately, this approach is not only wrong, but also leads to anxiety, disappointment, and distrust of God. In the Book of Job we can read Job's words:
"We know that you can do anything and that nothing can stop you from carrying out your plan." It means that God is omnipotent and is able to carry out every
plan and purpose.
However, when we tell him what he should do, it means that we consider ourselves better than him and that we are better able to solve our problems than God.
In the Book of Proverbs, we read: "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. Remember Him in all your ways, and He will make
your paths straight."
This means that we should trust and rely on God, not on our own abilities and ideas. It is He who knows our needs and what is best for us. Therefore, when
we tell God what He should do, we are actually refusing to trust Him and recognizing that our solutions are better than His.
In Isaiah we read, "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so
are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts."
This means that God knows what is best for us and that His plans are always better than ours. We must recognize that God is God and we are only human.
When we tell God what He should do, we are trying to impose our own limitations and perspectives on Him, which is impossible.
We are too small and limited people to fully understand God and his plans. As Christians, we should remember that we are children of God and our words
should be in accordance with His will.

This page is a permanent link to the reply below and its nested replies. See all post replies »

Diotrephes · 70-79, M

@barbara73 Have you ever thought about which denomination of Judaism your religious beliefs are more similar to? You do know that Christianity is just a branch of Judaism, don't you? While you are not an ethnic Jew you are a religious Jew.

barbara73 · 51-55, F

@Diotrephes
I think christianity was Branch of judaism ..but lot of years ago..Now they Have got talmud with different religion..

Diotrephes · 70-79, M

@barbara73

I think christianity was Branch of judaism ..but lot of years ago..Now they Have got talmud with different religion..

Christians are Jews by religion but it's something that most never consider. In a way they are more Jewish than most ethnic Jews are.

sree251 · 41-45, M

@Diotrephes

Christians are Jews by religion but it's something that most never consider. In a way they are more Jewish than most ethnic Jews are.

Allow me to clarify. I know what you are saying but Christians are not Jews, people of the religion of Judaism. Christians can be Jews who are drawn to the teaching of Jesus. His disciples were Jews. Those disciples, like Jesus, were considered aposatate Jews who broke away from the traditional Jewish religion of Judaism. As an apostate Jew, Jesus was crucified. His Jewish disciples formed a new religion of Christianity, a Jewish religion modified by apostate Jews. Unlike Judaism which was exclusive and only meant for Jews, Christianity is a modified Jewish religion that is open to non-Jewish people. Christianity today has adherents of all races and number more than a billion today while Judaism has a small Jewish following of only several million Jews.

The bottom line is what you are pointing out: the Christian religion is a Jewish faith that splintered off from Judaism.

Diotrephes · 70-79, M

@sree251
Esther 8:17 (ERV) = "Wherever the king’s command went in every province and every city, there was joy and gladness among the Jews. They were having parties and celebrating. Many of the common people from other groups became Jews. They did this because they were very afraid of the Jews."

Christians are more Jewish by religion than ethnic Jews are. Christians gobble up the Jewish religious fairytale in the Bible almost without exception while the traditional ethnic Jews only accept part of it. In Bible speak, Christians are more like the Pharisees while the ethnic Jews are more like the Sadducees.

So, why would anyone believe the Jewish religious fairytale in the Bible unless he was a Jew by religion (Esther 8:17)?

sree251 · 41-45, M

@Diotrephes

Christians are more Jewish by religion than ethnic Jews are.

American Christianity is infused with Jewish scripture of the First Testament of the Christian Bible. This seems to be the driver of American Christian evangelism.

Ethnic Jews are comprised of Orthodox Jews and the Reformed Jews who are culturally Jewish but do not practice Judaism. Reformed Jews typically marry whites and produce white/Jewish children. These reformed Jews are the intellectuals who dominate the west because they are really smart. They are the "European Jews".

This message was deleted by SimilarWorlds staff.

sree251 · 41-45, M

@Diotrephes

I think it would be nice if the Christians admit that they are Jews by religion. Maybe that will stop the Israeli Jews from spitting on them when they go to Israel.

What you refer to as Christians are whites who have assimilated the Jewish faith through their worship of a Jew called Jesus. The funny thing is that the Jews were waiting on their Messiah, not Jesus, whom they rejected as the false prophet. The Jewish Messiah is expected to come for the chosen people, the Jews only and not the whites who are the gentiles. The whites will always be spat upon as the goyims. And yet, every damn US President wore the skull cap and prayed at the Wailing Wall. Obama went also and he was black.

Diotrephes · 70-79, M

@sree251 That just shows that there are billions of Jews by religion even if they call themselves something else.

In Esther 8:17 (CEV) people converted because they feared the Jews =
"In every province and city where the law was sent, the Jews had parties and celebrated. Many of the people in the provinces accepted the Jewish religion, because they were now afraid of the Jews."

Today, people convert because they simply love Jewish fairytales, no matter how nonsenical the fairytale might be. Since Christians (regardless of ethnicity) are Jews by religion, they should start identifying as Jews. It would certainly reduce conflicts in society.

sree251 · 41-45, M

@Diotrephes

That just shows that there are billions of Jews by religion even if they call themselves something else.

Jews by religion. I get what you mean. I agree. I never saw it that way before. It's the Jewish religious ideology that counts. Once the thinking takes hold, it doesn't matter what ethnic background the believer has; even if you are a gorilla from Tanzania, you become a Jew. This explain white supremacy, American exceptionalism. It's the chosen people complex. And if you are not with us, you are against us; and we will bomb the living daylights out of you.

This explains why the US is so dead set on hegemony and being the lone world superpower. The conflict will not end. I don't know what the story is with Russia which is also Jewish (Russian Orthodox Christianity) but kicked out from the west. China is not "Jewish" and cannot be subjugated theologically. They will fight the west to the death.

Diotrephes · 70-79, M

@sree251 You made some excellent points.

Most of the time we can't recognize what we are really seeing until we look at it from multiple perspectives. Once Christians are recognized as Jews by religion everything else comes into focus.

Esther 8:17 is one of the most important verses in the Bible because it says that anyone can become a Jew by accepting the Jewish doctrine. In the NewTestamment times the claim was that Christians had to be circumcised. Paul won the fight that the men didn't have to be circumcised, which broke a visible link to the traditional Jews. The guys always had to show their penises.

Esther 8:17 (CSB) = "In every province and every city where the king’s command and edict reached, gladness and joy took place among the Jews. There was a celebration and a holiday. And many of the ethnic groups of the land professed themselves to be Jews because fear of the Jews had overcome them."

sree251 · 41-45, M

@Diotrephes

Most of the time we can't recognize what we are really seeing until we look at it from multiple perspectives. Once Christians are recognized as Jews by religion everything else comes into focus.

The problem is that people who practice Christianity do no see themselves as Jews even though they have been "body snatched".

Diotrephes · 70-79, M

@sree251

The problem is that people who practice Christianity do no see themselves as Jews even though they have been "body snatched".

That's true. Christians are not the brightest bulbs in the religious chandelier.

If you asked every adult Christian on the planet what the real Ten Commandments are almost everyone of them would regurgitate the fake ones from Exodus chapter 20 and Deuteronomy chapter 5.

sree251 · 41-45, M

@Diotrephes What are the real Ten Commandments?

Diotrephes · 70-79, M

@sree251

What are the real Ten Commandments?

I've been over this countless times. The Ten Commandments story is the easiest story in the Bible to understand because it is laid out in a linear fashion.

To qualilfy as the Ten Commandments they must be written on two stone tablets and called the Ten Commandments.

I suggest you get a pen and some blank sheets of paper and read Exodus chapters 19-34 and summarize every few verses in your own words. Chapter 19 just sets the stage. In Chapter 20 there is list of commandments that peope like to call the Ten Commandments but they are not the real Ten Commandments. Chapter 20 continues with more verbal commandments all the way through Chapter 23.

In Chapter 24 Moses and his buddies have a picnic with God, Moses did some black magic animal sacrifices.

Exodus 24:12 (BRG) = "12 ¶ And the Lord said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them."

Moses spends 40 days and 40 nights on the mountain.

In Exodus chapters 25-31 Moses gets all kinds of decoration and fashion commandments.

In Exodus 31:18 (BRG) =18 ¶ And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God."

In Exodus chapter 32 the people go nuts because they don't have anything to worship. They get Aaron to make them a golden calf idol (a symbol of Egypt). The people breakout in a loud celebration of freedm of religion. God and Moses hear them and God gets pissed and wants o go on one of his kiling sprees. Moses tells hi to chill and that he will take care of it. So, Moses lugs the freshly minted stone tablets down the mountain, sees the people having fun, and smashes the stone tablets.

Moses get his goons and they kill about three thousand men (they didn't count the women and children).

In Exodus 33 God and Moses kiss and make up.

Then in Exodus 34 God tells Moses to chip out a new set of stone tablets and lug them up the mountain for a re-write.

Exodus 34:10 establishes the biblical miracles, which is why there hasn't been any since.

The real The Commandmnts are Exodus 34:11-26 (BRG) =
"11 Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

12 Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:

13 But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:

14 For thou shalt worship no other god: for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:

15 Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;

16 And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.

17 Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.

18 ¶ The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.

19 All that openeth the matrix is mine; and every firstling among thy cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male.

20 But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck. All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before me empty.

21 ¶ Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.

22 ¶ And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year’s end.

23 ¶ Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel.

24 For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the Lord thy God thrice in the year.

25 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning.

26 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.

27 And the Lord said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.

28 And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments."

Compare the fake commandments to the real Ten Cmmandments, which are highly ethnocentric.

It is important to know what the real Ten Commandments are because all of the stories in the Old & New Testaments illustrate one or more of them in action. The stories themselves are just quizzes to get the listener or reader to tell which of the real Ten Commandments the story illustrates. Once you understand that then you will see it for yourself.

So, read the chapters, take notes and then see for yourself if you will have learned what the real Ten Commandments are. Be sure to let us know the results.

sree251 · 41-45, M

@Diotrephes

Compare the fake commandments to the real Ten Cmmandments, which are highly ethnocentric.

I am a lapsed Catholic and stopped reading the Bible after graduating high school. The stuff you lifted out from the Bible is pretty dark and lethal. I wouldn't go near any of it, either for or against it.

Be that as it may, the only thing I took away from the Christian Bible is the moral teaching of Jesus. The historical account of Jesus, the Jew, has no value to me.

Diotrephes · 70-79, M

@sree251

Be that as it may, the only thing I took away from the Christian Bible is the moral teaching of Jesus. The historical account of Jesus, the Jew, has no value to me.

The Jesus character had some skimpy morals. IMO, he is not a good role model.

Diotrephes · 70-79, M

@sree251

You asked what the real Ten Commandments are. For your own education I suggest you take the time to read the story yourself so that you will be comfortable with the results. Then your opinion will be based on knowledge and not hearsay. You might discover that people have been misleading you.

BTW, God and Moses broke the commandments in Exodus chapter 20 within a few days of saying them.

sree251 · 41-45, M

@Diotrephes

You asked what the real Ten Commandments are.

I did, and I appreciate your interest is wising me up on all these dark stuff poisoning the west. I have to admit that the Jesus story is most compelling and the archetype of American marketing prowess. Who knew that this story has such lethality in dominating the world.

For your own education I suggest you take the time to read the story yourself so that you will be comfortable with the results. Then your opinion will be based on knowledge and not hearsay. You might discover that people have been misleading you.

I get the drift and my reaction to the story is one of revulsion because that story is playing itself out in real time in the real world: millions of people killed by the US in foreign wars. Even now, Europe is hellbent on pushing for WW3.