Archive Day: January 27, 2016

Taking the Name of the Lord in Vain

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  January 27, 2016

by Teri Ong When most people, and I daresay, even most “evangelical” people, consider this one of the Ten Commandments, they think of “swear words” and various forms of God’s name attached to imprecations for damnation. While those abuses of human language are certainly covered by the command, “You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain” (Ex. 20:7), I believe being a “cheap swearer,” a description used by the poet George Herbert, is just the tip of the legal iceberg. The New Oxford American Dictionary defines “vain” as “producing no result, useless, having no meaning […]

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