Hey folks, my name is Johnny Artivannis and this is Dialin. In this episode, I want to address a question

that is apparently quite controversial. It's a topic that has become more pervasive in recent months

and years and truly. I think there are certain people that may ask, what's the big deal? Why even address

this topic at all? Others may share a concern and yet not know how to biblically

articulate their position. The topic, the question that I am referring to is this.

Should Christians cuss? Now in this episode I want to lay out a biblical framework

for the tongue as a whole and then answer three or four common objections that people often provide

to assert that cussing is either not that big of a deal or to say that it is actually totally

fine now without further ado let's dial in a couple of weeks ago, I posted a one-minute video answering the question, should Christians cuss?

Since then, it has been reposted thousands of times, and over the last few weeks across different platforms,

the video has amassed a couple million views.

Algorithmical prominence on social media, I'm told, is driven not only by shares, but by comments.

And truly, on this video I posted, there were a lot of comments.

There were some amens and, quote, yes, I am working on this,

but a large percentage of the comments to my surprise

were from christians who rebuttled refuted and laughed at the idea that christians should not cuss

saying that i was making a mountain out of a molehill and then stated some common objections for

the acceptability of cuss or swear language in our Christian vernacular.

Those common objections being, number one, language is cultural.

It doesn't really matter.

Secondly, that Paul says rubbish in Philippians, and that word for rubbish is the S word in our English language.

Number three, Paul tells the Galatians that those who preach

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