The hardened heart is probably one of the biggest tragedies in life. Once your hardened, you lose all hope and usefulness. All that’s left is the old man, ranting and complaining about how his life sucks. Thank God for Christ!

Actually, I don’t find cussing permissible. I find cussing to be objectively wrong but the words and manners culturally defined. I see your point that people can lay their subjective conservative sense of things onto other people as if they are objective. That happens. The question is whether the issue is subjective or objective. I would say cursing is objectively wrong, which your second to last sentence seems to be agreeing…

I see truth in your last statement, but if we’re trying to be holy as God is holy, I think this issue is profound. It affects our relationship with God, our image to other people as Christians, and other areas that it reaches in issues such as church unity, values, culture, and so on. I think Christians need to talk about issues such as this with care and time while also not neglecting other “big” issues of our lives.

Sorry once again that I couldn’t expound. My intention wasn’t to make it seem “technical” and “over the top.” I was hoping to clear it up soon, but that soon never came. I accidentally committed “intellectual bullying” as Dr. Greg Bahnsen puts it. Secular philosophers do it to Christians to overwhelm them and make their faith look stupid, and I must’ve seemed like them. For that I sincerely apologize and ask you for your forgiveness.

Thanks Jeremiah for your time. You stretched me, and I enjoyed our dialogue. I hope that we may continually glorify God in our lives and endure to the end whether we cross paths again or not.

Your brother in Jesus,
Yoon

Unfortunately I am not formally educated in logic, philosophy and theology so some of your more abstract ideas are a little beyond my knowledge.

I can’t really interact with you meaningfully on the idea of “Teleological Glorification” because it’s a bit outside my academic jurisdiction.

You don’t need to expound on it. It already sounds too dry and has a ring of theoretical academia.

I’m interested in things that are truly meaningful in an existential way. Christianity has a lot to say about existential dilemmas, both for the Christian and non.

I think I’ll just say that it would appear you consider “cussing” permissible but not beneficial while I consider it both permissible and beneficial. Again, I have to bring back the idea of objective moral values- we’ve (unnecessarily) agreed they exist. But the problem is when a person layers their own (subjective) conservative sense of things onto objectivity. I obviously wouldn’t argue that cussing is objectively right and not cussing is a sin.

I’m only trying to say that it’s a stupid nothing that people spend too much time talking about when so many other things aren’t getting accomplished.

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