It has always amazed me the way that Christians talk and never realize what it is that they are saying.
Christianese. What is it? It is the major language of the Church today in the U.S. It is the language of acceptability.
If I were to call this animal a "gix" and teach that to young children so that they would only know it as a gix, does it make or change the nature of the animal in any way? No, of course not, it is still a giraffe to you (or as the Fins say a "kirahvi") and a gix to others. It would just be substituting one word for another, but leaving the original meaning the same.
Lets look at some words that we actually use, even though at one point someone made them up like I just did with gix.
"Gosh" can anyone tell me what a gosh is? I didn't think so. Some will say it is just an expression with no meaning. Okay, how is it used.... "Oh my gosh!" could we translate it to "Oh my God!"? Yes, we can (otherwise known as OMG today). It was made up so that Christians could say it, but not use the name of the Lord their God in vain. Another example then, seeing so many of you are doubting...
"Jeez" what is a "jeez" maybe just maybe "Jesus"?
"Jimminy Crickets". It must be that the J.C. is just a coincidence. That must be it. Yeah, just a coincidence.
"Holy Smoke"? Holy Spirit? Oh yeah, just another coincidence. And there are more.
If you were to stop and ponder just how easily you can interchange all these "words"... yeah, what a surprising coincidence.
Is anyone out there willing to cut through the um.... "poopy" and see the truth? All we are doing is "gixing" and giving our God a new sounding name. Really, He is better called Jehovah, Yahweh or Abba Father but we have chosen to call Him God or Gosh. Selah (stop and think about it)...
To be continued....
Christianese. What is it? It is the major language of the Church today in the U.S. It is the language of acceptability.
Lets look at some words that we actually use, even though at one point someone made them up like I just did with gix.
"Gosh" can anyone tell me what a gosh is? I didn't think so. Some will say it is just an expression with no meaning. Okay, how is it used.... "Oh my gosh!" could we translate it to "Oh my God!"? Yes, we can (otherwise known as OMG today). It was made up so that Christians could say it, but not use the name of the Lord their God in vain. Another example then, seeing so many of you are doubting...
"Jeez" what is a "jeez" maybe just maybe "Jesus"?
"Jimminy Crickets". It must be that the J.C. is just a coincidence. That must be it. Yeah, just a coincidence.
"Holy Smoke"? Holy Spirit? Oh yeah, just another coincidence. And there are more.
If you were to stop and ponder just how easily you can interchange all these "words"... yeah, what a surprising coincidence.
Is anyone out there willing to cut through the um.... "poopy" and see the truth? All we are doing is "gixing" and giving our God a new sounding name. Really, He is better called Jehovah, Yahweh or Abba Father but we have chosen to call Him God or Gosh. Selah (stop and think about it)...
To be continued....
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