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God’s Name in Vain?

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From text messages to tweets, “OMG” gets thrown around as casual, unremarkable lingo. In everyday conversation I hear more and more Christians use the phrase, “Oh my God!” not as a cry to the Almighty but as a turn of speech. It’s just an emotional exclamation nothing more.

But since we are throwing the name of the Most High around, I suppose we should check in and see what he thinks about this. What does the Bible say about using God’s name carelessly?

It breaks a commandment.

“You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain.” Ex. 20:7

His name should be feared.

Teach me Your way, O Lord; I will walk in Your truth;
Unite my heart to fear Your name. Ps. 86:11

His name should be exulted.

Exult in his holy name;
rejoice, you who worship the Lord. 1 Chron. 16:10

His name is holy, awesome and praise worthy.

Let them praise your great and awesome name. Your name is holy! Ps. 99:3

His name deserves our allegiance. 

Therefore, let us offer through Jesus a continual sacrifice of praise to God, proclaiming our allegiance to his name. Heb. 13:15

 

 But these are written so that you may continue to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing in him you will have life by the power of his name. John 20:31

Sep 23, 2013Serena
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  1. ang
    9 years ago

    good reminder

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  2. Maggie Bacon
    9 years ago

    Thank you so much for posting this.

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  3. Emily
    9 years ago

    One of my biggest pet peeves!!! Thanks for this. I use OMZ oh my zombie.

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  4. Paul Thrower
    9 years ago

    I agree that using “OMG” or its extended full form immediately paints us as those who do not respect God.
    However…… “God” is NOT God’s name – “Yahweh” is. Exodus 3:15 And God said again to Moses, “So you must say to the Israelites, ‘Yahweh, the God of your ancestors,the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. «This is my name forever, and this is my remembrance from generation to generation.’» “God” is a descriptive noun, and since there is only one, when we say “God”, we speak of Yahweh because He alone is God. Isaiah 42:8 “I am Yahweh; that is my name, and I do not give my glory to another, nor my praise to the idols.” God does not share His name with idols, yet He acknowledges “gods” exist – which is to say that “god” is not reserved to Yahweh alone but “Yahweh” is. Exodus 20:3 “There shall be for you no other gods before me.”
    As for not “taking the name of Yahweh in vain”, Exodus 20:7 “You shall not misuse the name of Yahweh your God, because Yahweh will not leave unpunished anyone who misuses his name.”, the literal meaning is to “take up/bear/carry the name of Yahweh your God for what is worthless/false/empty” The Jewish understanding of this is to proclaim that you live for and worship Yahweh but are hypocritical and thus disgrace His name.
    Again, I do not try to detract from efforts of brethren to remind us to hold reverence for Yahweh, and especially since the majority of the world is not acquainted with God’s name Yahweh to begin with having only heard Yahweh referred to as “God” for so long and so the equate the two.
    (Scripture references are from the Lexham English Bible)

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