Ten Commandments (1972)_b.pdf - Herbert W. Armstrong

The Third Commandment 51
Here the true God shows He is the One men MUST
worship and obey! No wonder we are to reverence and
hallow His name!
Abusing God's Name
Perhaps many don't fully realize it, but this earth is
literally FILLED with men and women who abuse the name
of Almighty God in many different and varying ways! It is
time to REPENT of taking the very NAME of our Creator
and God in vain!
Men and women from every facet of our society have
begun to think that it is "cute" or the popular thing to do
to swear by God's name or invoke His name in some oath
of condemnation. In the United States, and elsewhere,
actors and actresses have for years parroted oaths of profanity
which are inserted by the playwright seemingly
only for the purpose of "entertaining" the audience by
using God's name in a vain or frivolous manner. Now, even
the motion pictures are inserting more and more profanity
into their scripts. But the true GOD is not going to stand
for this very much longer! This very thing is one of the
many reasons why He is soon going to PUNISH our socalled
"Christian" nations with the greatest national
punishment that has ever been meted out to any peoples
in all earth's history!
In our everyday speech, many of us are damning the
very name of our Creator and our God! We are using our
breath to curse and damn the name of the very One who
gives us our life and the very breath with which these
individuals curse His name!
An expression used with terrible frequency is asking
God to "damn" someone. Poor men and wealthy men alike
give ready tongue to this vile oath - and often think they
are proving their "manhood" or getting away with something
by doing it! Yet it would be hard to find any normal
human being anywhere who would like to see this phrase
carried out with respect to his fellowman in all of its
terrible meaning. This expression is trifling with the name
of our God - asking Him to do something which He has
never intended to do.