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You caught me... I just want to take my Christian liberty and run crazy with it.

The kind of people I would use the kind of words being talked about are with people who see this as an amoral issue. They wouldn't cover their mouth up b/c they don't think of language in that way. And again, w/ believers, I would choose my company wisely when using those words. But a mature...

Are you sure you are looking at the right word??? Skubalon comes at the end of the sentence. Geneva used dung. KJV used dung. NET used dung. RV used dung. NIV went w/ garbage. NASB & ESV used rubbish. HCSB used filth. My guess is that some more modern translations avoided such a...

Apparently, the folks over at the NET Bible disagree with you. While they don't go far as to say it is the equivalent for the s word in English, the s word the way I used it had shock value, and so I find an equivalence there. And I disagree w/ ur interpretation of Sir 27:4. It is a...

Point granted. I was thinking in broad sweeping terms. I certainly would not qualify or define evangelical as such. But it does seem that a common heritage shared in evangelicalism is the gospel. But I guess there is enough fluidity in that, that perhaps the CoC can be included. However...

I am going through Buth's Greek grammar, so this is partly the prompt to take 21st century terms and put them back into Greek. But the living language method is for another discussion. (if my grammar was wrong, you mind pointing it out to me???) As for your situation, you must trust that I am...

Wow.... a 50/50 split. Nice! Let me say for those arguing for ignorance/lack of vocabulary that I find that to be skubalon mosxou. Certain occasions call for a verbose and loquacious philology to avoid the appearance of ignorance. However, other occasions call for a short yet highly emotive...

I agree Paul thought of skubalon the same way we think of s**t. But offending someone is not my concern. In certain contexts and occasions, it is appropriate. And dung is hardly better than...

Serious doesn't have to be scholarly.

TR is not a "family of Manuscripts" and certainly not correct (not in many places at least). By your logic, the NKJV then has replaced the KJV since it is based on the TR and it is for this generation of believers who speak English.

Ok... haha... moving on. I was hoping to have a serious translation discussion on the OP.

Let me illustrate b/c I am not thinking of language necessarily spoken out of anger. In a conversation with someone, I "called their crap" so to speak, but the best way to emphasize how cowardice it felt was to call it "chicken s**t". It was not said in rage, but it clearly communicated the...

So how you describe their view of baptism in relationship to the gospel within orthodoxy?

To answer the title of the OP... sin

Is it ever ok for Christians to cuss??? I find it appropriate in certain situations to use words (deemed by society mind you not the Bible) that express my truest feelings and intensity. I think Paul did this as well in Phil 3:8 although I opened a thread to discuss that word in...

bump above "baptist who stand up"

With the wave of evangelicals being so moved by Duck Dynasty (I enjoy the show but not b/c of its "Christian" values), I wanted to get some opinions. Since these guys are hard core into the CoC, and since their doctrinal emphasis is baptism (good emphasis but with a misplaced theological...

I am not an advocate for the complete non-use of vulgar terms. I think they help communicate effectively points. So I am occasionally for profanity (will make a good subject in another part of the BB). I don't think Paul was either. Phil. 3:8 and σκυβαλον is a good example. Consider...

But that is not the same thing... not exactly. One more time. The reason tree rings or Adam as an adult is not the same thing as "light en route" is because there is no observable information either Adam or the tree that illogically presents an event prior to creation (time/space). Even tree...

So which part of the star exploding a million years ago is the supernatural part? The existence of that information of something that happened before creation? The fact that God can create something that seems to be outside of the time/space continuum that he created? Or that God would be...