Jesus, Truth & Spin - Gospel of Matthew Part 8
Exploring My Strange Bible
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The Importance of Swearing
Swearing is doing what the neighbor did. It's swearing this oath to somehow bolster the importance of a claim that you're making. In our culture now, swearing has to do with foul language and then using God or Jesus' name in foul language. That's not what swearing is in the Bible. The whole point is to take God's holiness and uniqueness and goodness and associate it with your own whatever,. distortion of the truth and crookedness and so on. And so you have these laws given in ancient Israel. Don't use the name of God in your oaths.
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