Nice collections. Euphemisms are a big argument between me and my brother and law, over what "counts" and what doesn't. Also good to consider are words like "Dork" which people use on a daily basis...and no one even bothers to look it up and find out what it means.

                 The english language is complicated already...and then you have to consider profanity. Such a shame...

       *k

Wow some of those euphemisms I've never even heard before... lol.

I mean even though I've been homeschooled, it's mostly been for academic reason and my parents have made sure my experiences have been pretty diverse. So yea.. I've always known that just about everybody cusses. I try hard not to because I think too much cussing is just a sign of a bad vocabulary... but it slips for all of us at some point... I think we just need to try our best not to.

As for euphemisms? I says stuff like "Oh my gosh" or "dang it" all the time... I even say crap. And I honestly don't think it's that big of a deal or much of an issue with God. Some people think saying crap is just crude and maybe it is, but I don't think it's sinful....what's important is not what you say, but what you mean.

^to the above...

                 have you ever heard a four year old say crap? the day my nephew repeated it was the day I started trying to stop. It sounds awful coming out of kids' mouths! and if kids shouldn't say it, then should we?

                   just a thought...

Rachael (crescendo_of_ambiguity),
If you read my entry again, you will see that I siad euphemisms are wrong because they mean the same thing as the word which they originated from.
Gosh originated from God -- it's wrong to take God's name in vain, so it's wrong to say gosh.
Darn and dang originated from damn -- since God is the only one with the power to damn something, it's wrong for us to say it.

Crap isn't necessarily a wrong word when you use it correctly, but it becomes wrong when you misuse it. The same with other words.

I used to say crap alot, but I saw that it's wrong when I misuse it like that, so I stopped.

Nicholas

Hey Nick - ya crap is okay when you're talking about THE GAME! lol That the thing - when you don't fully understand the meaning of a word you're gonna use it like nothin. Same goes for "sucks" kids don't know what the word actually means...and if you did...it's most likely that you wouldn't use it anymore. If you do anyway - then you'll have to  stand accountable for that when Christ returns. The fact of the matter is we're told to be Christ like - if anything we say resembles something of this world why in the world are we saying it?!

 Can you honestly see Christ walking around saying, "Gosh!" or "OMG!!" Come on now! How about "That sucks" or "thats a load of crap." CAN YOU SEE CHRIST OUR LORD SAYING THAT?! We better watch our language. What we say reflects on who we are.

Someone here said, "It doesn't matter what you say - its what you mean" well I've got some news for you...thats not right.  Have you ever said something to someone and it come out completely different then how you meant it? I think we all have. Whats the next thing we say? "Oh thats not what I meant!" But there are times when the damage is done and we can't fix what we have already said. Because the fact of the matter is - what we say does matter. If it didn't matter then God wouldn't have said to keep filthy language out of our mouths. He would have said, "It's okay if you take my name in vain or cuss every now and then - as long as you don't mean it."  Does that make sense?! I certainly think not! If we're saying something we don't mean - then thats problem number one.

 Check your language. What you say should be EXACTLY what you mean.

Nathan (dogpoundshephard),
I know!! My boss knows how I feel about bad language; I haven't even told her that I don't like bad language but she knows that I'm a Christian so she's always like "excuse my language" whenever she uses profane speech.

If someone as worldy as my boss can see that Christians dislike and shouldn't use bad language, why can't Christians see that!?

Christians should know better than to let their speech wander so freely between good and evil. "It ought not so to be" as it says in James.

Nicholas

Reagan (Urchin03),
Exactly!! I used to misuse the word "crap", but now it's not even a part of my vocabulary. Using that word was a real bad habit of mine last year; I said it all the time and alot of the time I didn't know that I was even saying it because it was just a bad habit.
Alot of people claim that they "can't stop" saying it or "it slips" sometimes, but if that is the case then you obviously aren't trying hard enough to stop it. I mean, I don't even think about using the word crap anymore; It never even crosses my mind.
We can stop saying these things if we really want to, it's just up to you to do it. Sometimes it's best if you just shut up all together; if you feel like you're going to say something profane, just shut up and say nothing at all.
It really works.

I don't think Christ would ever say one of those words. He told us to say nothing more than "yea yea; nay nay" in Matthew 5:37 But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.

You should always mean what you say. If you don't mean what you say, that's the same thing as lying.
For example:
I tell you "I'll give you $20.00 if you wash my car"... Then you go wash my car and when you come back to get your $20.00, I say "oh I didn't mean that".
That was a lie from the start because "I didn't mean it" when I said it.

Lying is a sin; but that's a whole different discussion...
If you don't mean what you say, then don't say it.

"For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned."

Nicholas

You guys all have very good points. I still think you are focusing a little too much on actions and being kinda legalistic about all of it though. You won't ever do anything to be good enough for God.. you should try to better yourself of course, but just remember we're saved by grace and grace alone.

And not to be mean, but if you disagree, you really should read the NT a little more and read as a whole... not just verses by themselves...

actually, when you read verse by verse, you will get a better understanding of what the bible says as a whole. Of course you cant take things out of context, but when you look, even word by word, you will have a better understanding of what the bible is saying. Try reading the book of Hebrews without looking at each word. I think you will see that that book is a particular hard one if you dont look at the words used. These are inspired words of God, given by the Holy Spirit to the writers of the bible. Do you think that the Holy Spirit would mess up and write words that were wrong that we should not look at closely? Of course not, this is the inspired word of God. He chose the words to be used in every verse. We need to be looking at the words closely and see what the original meanings for each word was. This will give us the most complete understanding of the bible, as long as it stays within the walls of context.

JP

Well of course you need to read each word... I'm just saying you can't read one verse of a whole chapter and take it out of context... I mean there is a whole chapter where Paul gets sarcastic and you have to be able to pick up on that.... that's all I meant.

God's grace and His love are the basics. And that is what is most important to understand.

Okay - so if I have taken something out of context I would like to know. I mean, I deff don't want to walk around telling people a verse means one thing when indeed it means another.

Also I was just wondering - if we're to take all of the scriptures and not just some, where does this grace only come in? What about the baptisim spoken of in the Bible. Just wondering...

No, no... I wasn't saying you took something out of context in particular. I'm just saying that you can look at a verse like... well for instance the one about baptism. I agree that baptism is very important, but I also recognize, from reading other things and parts of the Bible, that it is only an outward sign of what must happen inside. All you actually HAVE to do to be saved is accept Jesus into your life. Now there are plenty of other things you SHOULD do. But if there were actual actions we could do to get us to heaven, Jesus death would have been in vain. God sent Jesus because it was the only way... and there is no other. His death was so powerful, that we don't need anything else to get us to heaven. We just have to accept Him.

Alot of things spoken of in the NT are things Paul says we should do. And we should do them because we love God and we want to please him. But of course, we wont always, and so that's why grace and grace alone saves us. And if you want I can show you lots of places in the Bible where it says that..

Oh and not just Paul... Peter and John and lots of others too... lol I was just using Paul as an example.

Matt (Matt_frazier),
Great Scott is rather humorous to me as well, but it is still a euphemism for God. I think it's more of an Irish thing though... Whatever. It's a euphemism and we shouldn't say it.

Nicholas

Reagan (Urchin03),
I don't believe you have taken anything out of context. I agree with everything you have said thus far.

Nicholas

Rachael (crescendo_of_ambiguity),
It takes more than accepting Jesus into your life to be saved:

1. We must hear the word of God
Romans 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
2. We must believe in Christ
John 8:24 I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.
3. We must repent of our past sins
Luke 13:3,5 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
4. We must confess that Jesus Christ is the Son of God
Acts 8:37 And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
5. We must be baptized for the remission of your sins
Acts 2:38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
6. We must be faithful to Him
1 Corinthians 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

Surely you know that these 6 things are not "belief only"? How can you deny what the Bible says?
I've given you scripture to show that it takes more than accepting Jesus to be saved. Show me where your scripture is; show me where God's word tells us to only "accept Jesus".
If the Bible says that we only have to accept Jesus to be saved, then why does He tell us these other things to do? The Bible has no contradictions, so obviously we must obey all of His commands.

John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
Notice the plurality of the verse? -- It says "Commandments" not "commandment".
The Bible has NO contradictions; if we are to "only" accept Jesus, that would be one command, therefore that verse would be singular, but it's not.

Keep His Commandments.

Nicholas

Sorry.  this is my post, not MonAleatoires:

Crescendo of Ambiguity:  You made the following statement "but just remember we're saved by grace and grace alone."  Can you please refer us to a verse that states we are saved by grace alone? Thanks.

I agree with the first four... when you accept Jesus, you are doing it because you've heard the gospel, then you believe it's true, so then you can accept it and you do that by recognizing (or confessing)Christ as your Savior and asking Him to forgive you for all your sins. I know it isn't belief only because the Bible says even the demons believe and tremble. So yea, I guess it is those 4 things... I'm just not one for lists.

It is grace alone though and there are many verses to prove it.

titus 3:5 -Not by works of rightousness which we have done, but according to His mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and the renewal of the Holy Spirit. ~( Regeneration is another word for renewal.) We are immidieately baptized when we are saved by the Holy Spirit... He is the one who allows us to lose our self in worship and hear God when he speaks to us. That is the kind of baptism that MUST happen... immersion (or sprinkling or w/e) is simply an outward sign and something that is good to do.

Ephesians 2:8 -For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith, this is not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not by works, so that no one can boast.

Read Romans 8 (first part at least) and Galatians 3. They're too long for me to type...

Salvation is a gift, not something you have to work for..Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the GIFT of God is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord. 

We will all sin and fall short and there is nothing we can do about it. Romasn 3:23 All of have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.

When Jesus talked to Nicodemus in John 3, he basically laid out the plan for salvation... you should go read that whole chapter as well, John 3:16,17,18 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.

Yes baptism and following God's command are things we should strive for as Christians... but we just will never be good enough no matter how much we pray or what we do... that is why only God's grace saves us... when we pray the prayer and truly accept that grace into our lives, the Holy Spirit baptizes us. Then we can just learn how to talk to God, one on one. God is very personal and very near, if only we let go of our legalism and let him fully into our lives. Study is great, but in the end knowing about God doesn't matter. Satan knows the Bible way better than we ever will.. it's actually knowing God we should focus on.

And as for keeping his commandments... when Jesus was asked what the greatest commandments are, he said it was loving God with all our hearts, and then loving others.

He put loving others above anything else we could do. The pharisees were such hypocrites, they couldnt see that... they were too concerned with rules and not concerned enough with love and mercy.. Jesus condemned them for it. He welcomed tax collectors and prostitutes because they were the people that wanted to know him...and not just about him.

Rachael (crescendo_of_ambiguity),
Baptism is necessary to obtain salvation.
1 Peter 3:21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:

If baptism saves us, that would mean that no baptism will not save us.

Nicholas

Rachael (crescendo_of_ambiguity),
Exactly, the baptism of the Holy Spirit is the baptism which saves us.
John 3:5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

I don't recall reading that "the Cross alone saves us" in the Bible; please give a Biblical reference.

It seems that I need to make an entry concerning baptism being that we are discussing it so frequently... I'll try to work on one and get it posted soon.

Nicholas