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Jesus, Truth & Spin - Gospel of Matthew Part 8

Exploring My Strange Bible

CHAPTER

The Divine Conspiracy

Dallas Willard says swearing is about invoking something or someone else to make your words seem more significant and weighty. The aim is to impress others with your seriousness or your piety so that you get what you want, he says. It's manipulation, or as we say in our culture, spin. And Jesus says it's evil. Instead of loving and honoring others with truthfulness, the intent is to get one's way by verbal manipulation of the thoughts and of the choices of others.

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