OMG!

Okay, so we've all heard the phrase "Oh, My God," right? I had a friend ask me the other day, why Christians think the phrase is bad. I said it was God's name in vain. He asked what that meant. I grew up being told that, so I assumed it was just bad. I had never really looked at what it means. Really, nowadays, it is an exclamation or a cuss-word, if you will. But why is it bad? Does it have some sort of curse in the meaning?

Really, the phrase itself that is wrong, it is the way we say it. What the Bible says is that God's name is too holy and too powerful to be used so lightly. My friends dad, who is an atheist, said "Oh, My God!" on our DC trip. It got me thinking about why His name has been watered down to an exclamation. The scribes who wrote the Bible would wash their hands before writing "Lord" or "God" because it was just that holy. And, truth is, it a still is that holy. People have just adopted it as a something to say in a string of cuss-words or to say if something interesting happening.

A different friend, who also does not really believe in God, said "Oh, My God" after someone had whispered something in her ear. I tapped her shoulder and asked, "Um... your God?" She told me to chill and that she didn't mean it that way.

I have heard quite a few people use the phrase. It's really sad that so many people mock the name of their creator, but that seems to be a recurring theme in the world.