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Happy Friday for free. Hey, I got another gripe vine. Two gripe vines in a week. Back to back gripe vines. The gripes are ripe unto harvest.
Welcome to the gripe vine. When I got saved. When I got saved. Wait, wait, wait, wait a minute. That's not the gripe.
Welcome to the gripe vine. When I got saved. If I could just be very serious with you. When I got saved. Why are you griping about salvation? I'm not griping about salvation.
What is happening? I didn't have to give up cussing. I didn't have to give up a deviant lifestyle.
You know what I mean? I was not on drugs. I was not drinking. I wasn't murdering people. I didn't have to give up a lot of vices. One of the vices I did have to give up was swearing. That was difficult for me. I still had words I could use to express myself. If I dropped something, I could say, dang it. Darn it. Oh my gosh. I could say things like that. I didn't realize that when I had children, that would be taken away completely.
100%. That's gone out the window. Already giving up swearing was hard for me. I'm not going to lie to you. I wish I could say I never said a cuss word my entire life. I did.
I said a whole lot of them. That was really tough. But by God's grace, I did it. It wasn't like I achieved this thing. God helped me to do it. But I still had those words where I could express myself.
Dang it. Some people don't even like that. But hey, I was an adult. Still am an adult.
But for some reason now, when you have children, things get real, real restrictive. I can say that things are silly and I can call people a rascal. That's about it. That's the only recourse I have. I don't know what to do. You got to change your vernacular. You got to just change it.
You got to change it. And here's why. Because, I mean, it's one thing as an adult to say, Oh, dang it. Or I'll shoot or something like that in a conversation. It sounds much different coming out of your three and four year old's mouth.
That's much different. If you have a four year old that goes, Oh, dang it. Oh, man. I really don't want you saying that. They drop something. They're like, shoot, shoot fire. I really don't want you to say that.
So you got to change what you're saying. Like, ah, fiddlesticks. Oh, dandy. Applesauce.
Like sugar snap peas. I used to be cool, man. I used to be cool. You are cool. But I can't be cool if I drop stuff and I say applesauce. Firecracker. Yes, you can.
Yes, you can. You know, and I'll tell you why. Because you got two little boys that think you're the coolest person on the face of this planet. I get that, man. I get that. But like, okay. Like, okay. Okay. It's getting to the point now where like, I can't say, Oh my gosh.
Right. I can't say that in the house. Ellie gets angry with me, but Goofy says it on TV. And that's his catchphrase.
To be fair, gorsh is a little softer, I guess. I don't know what it is. Mickey says it. He's like, Oh gosh. No problem. Good Mickey.
Thank you. I hear it 24 seven. Mickey mouse can say, gosh, no problem. Gavin says it or I say it. We're in trouble.
Yep. Now if Mickey mouse has cleaner, has dirtier language than me in my own house, there's a problem here. I just feel like we're getting a little bit too restrictive with, with the, with the language here. You know, have you, have you submitted requests for like, is this acceptable?
Is this acceptable? Like what is, what is in the realm of acceptable, acceptable vocabulary? They all, uh, I mean, just silly stuff.
Sure. Silly is fine. We can say that things are silly.
Like, Hey, you being very silly or, or, um, no, cause silly is kind of good. I don't know. I don't know. Stupid is out.
Idiot is out. Those things. I don't, I don't want to, I don't want to say to the kids anyway.
We're in very different places in our parenting journey. Really? Yeah. Cause you can say stupid now. Yeah.
And you can say, like, I look at my kids and be like, Hey, you're being an idiot. Yeah, no. Stop making dumb choices. Yeah.
We can't say dumb. That's what I'm saying. Like anything that's inherently negative, we can't really say unless it's like, Hey, you're disobeying or you're not listening.
Those are fine. But, but I can't, I just can't use expressive language anymore around the house. We've, we've reached the point in parenting now where we're just really sarcastic with our kids. Like I'll look at my kids and be like, Hey, it costs, it costs you nothing to not be a turd.
It's completely, it's completely free for you to not be a turd. I want to get there. I want to get, I want to get back to where I could speak freely and not have to worry about whether a toddler was going to repeat what I said. You'll get there. Okay.
You got some time cause you got one that's leaving the toddler years and one that's about to become a toddler. Yeah. Yeah, true.
So, and then, you know, that's not counting any galantises that come behind that are, that are on the way. So yeah, my language is going to be squeaky clean, but I'm going to sound like a dork. Like imagine dropping something and be like, Oh, firecracker, cheese and crackers here. You sound like from like a 1920 show.
I sound like Ned Flanders. By golly. I don't even think golly is, is yeah. Well, okay. So golly is fine, but golly can't do that.
Oh, so it's the inflection that's important. Yes, I guess so. Cause I'll be like, golly. And then Gavin will be like, golly. And she'd be like, see, that's why I don't like that. That's why I don't like that. So, but if I say golly, no problem there. I don't get it. Somebody needs to make it make sense because it don't make sense to me. All right.
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He's getting us into the ad and you're stinking. Oh geez. That's not good radio. What in the world?
This guy, this guy right here. Hey, what's going on listeners. My name is John and I'm Ellie and we just want to take a second and let you know about Dr. Shah's new book on the market right now called, can we recover the original text of the new Testament?
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Love that. Ellie, let's hop back in. Let's do it. Welcome back to Clear View Today with Dr. Abaddon Shah, the daily show that engages mind and heart for the gospel of Jesus Christ. You can visit us online at clearviewtodayshow.com. If you have any questions or suggestions for new topics, send us a text at 252-582-5028. That's right. And we're here once again in the Clear View Today studio with Dr. Abaddon Shah, who's a PhD in New Testament textual criticism, professor at Carolina University, author, full-time pastor, and the host of today's show.
You can find all of his work on his website. That's abaddonshah.com. Dr. Shah, happy Friday, my friend.
What is that? Stop it. My alarm's going off.
Your alarm is at 3.54 p.m. Sorry. Sorry. It's okay.
What's happening at 3.54 specifically? I don't know. I'm about to shut my phone down. It's all good.
It's shutting down right about now. Very, very cool. I wanted to ask you this. Little kids. You don't have little kids in the house no more. But what was the cutoff for what they were allowed to say? So shut up is right out. Stupid, idiot, dumb, all that stuff.
Can't say that in the house. Dumb, maybe. Could they say, if they dropped something, could they say, ah, dang it. No. No, dang it.
Could they say, I think I ate too doggone much. That's fine. That's fine. Okay. They can say that.
What about, let's see. Crud. Could they say crud? Crud is fine.
Okay. So the shy kid says, see, my kids, if it were up to me, they could say a lot more than that. But they're on lockdown. They can't say, oh my gosh. They can't say. I agree with that. You don't like, oh my gosh.
See, that's my thing is then, but then they shouldn't be watching Mickey Mouse. Cause Goofy says gorsh all the time and Mickey Mouse says gorsh. What does he say? Gorsh. Gorsh. Gorsh. What is a gorsh?
I don't know. Goofy's accent coming through, I guess. You said Mickey says gosh.
And Hill's like, oh gosh. I really just wanted you to do the animation again. I was willing to give it to you. So some things they could say as little kids. Do you remember any where you were like, hey, I really don't want the kids saying that. Yeah. Oh yeah. There were times they would say things like that.
And you know, we were like, hey. No. That one's right out. Nope. Yeah. It's tough with little kids.
Cause I mentioned this and we can talk about this a little bit later. I didn't have to give up a whole lot of bad behaviors when I, when I got saved, but, but swearing was one and it was a struggle. And so it was before I had kids, I could find creative ways to still get that expression out. And it's tough cause when you, when you spend a lot of time swearing, you get so used to it, it loses its edge.
So you want to keep finding stuff to have that edge. But then I was like, okay, I'm saved now. I'm a Christian. I'm going by God's grace. I'm going to, I'm going to give this up. And he helped me do it.
But then I had to give up even more when I had kids and it's like, life is, I feel like I just say the silliest stuff now just to get the expression out. I will, I will, I will get up on this whole house flapjack. Oh man. You guys are making me see red. I've had it up to here.
Like I see now. You bet your bottom dollar partner Buster Brown, you better sit it. You better park it. Buster. I see now why people portray dads as such like Ned Flanders style clowns because you can't say, you say, I remember I, and I don't know if you remember this.
I remember one time we went to go see the eclipse in, in Georgia. That's right. And someone cut you off while you were driving. And I remember you being like, Oh, you rascal. And I said, anytime a pastor calls someone a rascal, you need to know they did not want to call you a rascal. There are several things that I would like to say.
That's kind of what we're talking about today. Our verse of the day today is coming from John chapter 10 verse 11. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives his life for the sheep. Words of encouragement there.
Words of encouragement. Well, Jesus is our good shepherd. So we are sheep and sometimes we wander away, but he's a good shepherd. He comes and he rescues us. He looks for us. And then he brings us home.
He will leave behind the 99 to go for that one. So we should just like Christ and his power go out and rescue the sheep lost. And what better time to say that when we are still focused on helping our neighbors to the western part of our state who are still struggling, who are still having a difficult time and there are people out there helping and that's what they're doing. They're trying to rescue. They're trying to find ways to help them.
That's right. And you know, we've heard a lot lately about what they're allowed to do and not allowed to do and all that. This is kind of crazy right now. Yeah. Some weird things being coming out. Yeah.
But just being prayer that God will open doors that not a single person who is waiting to be rescued will be abandoned, will lose hope. 100%. And there have been people asking us writing into the show saying, hey, these are some really weird times. Things are happening. Are you guys going to talk about that? We are. We'll talk about it when it becomes relevant, when we have enough to really form our arguments. We don't like to just fly off the hip and start talking about things as soon as the story breaks.
That's right. Of course, we'll talk about it. But you know, today we are talking about the things that we say. You know, Dr. Shah, I mentioned that earlier.
I gave up swearing. But it turns out, talking about story breaking, breaking news, Christians actually get to cuss now. Did you know that? Well, I heard prior to this show that that is the new thing. It's the new thing.
And, you know, it's backed by the Bible, apparently. In fact, if we all want to just kind of play this video I found today, I sent Dr. Shah this video last night, and this guy, I don't know, he's got some interesting things to say. Okay. Okay.
So in full honesty, I've changed my mind a little bit on cussing. When I look at the Bible, it's very clear. The Bible says that of the overflow of your mouth, your heart will speak. Okay.
Immediately pause for just a second. That's not what the Bible says. The overflow of your mouth, your heart will speak. No, no. It's out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth will speak. Same thing, right?
It's backwards. Play what he said again. Out of the overflow of the mouth, the heart speaks, is what he said? Yep. It says that of the overflow of your mouth, your heart will speak.
So the more I talk, this is... My heart's going to get dirtier. Yeah. Right. Yeah.
The more I talk, I guess my heart just kind of keeps coming out. I give my brother over there a little pass because maybe he just misspoke. He just probably misspoke. Sure.
I think he misspoke. Yeah. But here's the thing. You're not off to a good start, but maybe you made a mistake. You're coming in with a real controversial take.
Christians should be cussing. If you're going to come in with a controversial take like that, you need to have a better start to your argument. Also, if you're coming in confident like that, you better get your verse right. That's the thing.
So we talked about this before on the show. These guys are so smug. They come across so... Maybe I say are so smug. They come across so smug and so like, I've figured this out long ago. Let me tell you this hidden information.
All right, go for it. Serious that we can actually see where our hearts are at because of what we say. But I also look at the scriptures and I see that there's times and places for intense language. Jesus calls the Pharisees, you brood of vipers. Paul calls the Pharisees and says, if you're so concerned with circumcision, just emasculate yourself, cut the whole thing off.
So there's times where the Bible actually, I think uses intense language to prove a point. That's not cussing though. So what does it mean to cuss?
Because I mean, if I come to you right now and I say, oh, I've got this bloody test tomorrow. We're in the United States. We don't think that's a bad word, but in Great Britain, that's a bad word. But that's a different issue going on right here. He's talking about cussing or not cussing. Right. And then he's talking about different cultures and what is acceptable and what's not. Those are two different issues going on.
Right. So contextual, it's also cultural. So there's certain things I can say in this culture that I can't say in that culture.
So that means there's also microcultures, that there's cultures within my family, with my children that I shouldn't say certain things and I shouldn't say with my wife. So pause it for a second. That's true. But what does that have to do with, with morality? Right.
Like, like, yeah, that's fine. But that doesn't mean that say that like swearing is accepted. Is he trying to say there's no such thing as like objectively bad words? Is that his point he's trying to make? I'm not sure.
Okay. When it says cursing, I think oftentimes what the Bible is talking about is actually giving a curse to the person saying that person is this or that person. I wish this upon that person. That's what the Bible is also talking about. I think the Bible also talks about speaking out and sexual immorality, having a mouth that's impure. The Bible talks about all the time that again, that comes from a heart and that should be, there should be no improper language spoken among you is what the scripture say. So nothing improper should be coming out of your mouth, but only such as what builds up. So the goal of our, our language is to build people up. And oftentimes that comes in a form of a rebuke in some ways.
And sometimes I think there is some colorful language, but I think it should only be spirit led. Start again. That section.
Can you do that one? Yeah. He said, yeah. Yeah. So the goal of our, our language is to build people up. And oftentimes that comes in a form of a rebuke in some ways. And I don't think this guy knows what words mean.
Yeah. We build people up by rebuking them. Is that what he's saying? Rebuke means to scold someone, right? Let me make sure he's saying, yeah, it does.
What he's saying is I can rebuke you, but in the process I'm doing you a favor because that's going to help you and correct you, which to be a better person. Sure. I can get on board with that. But then he, then he just jumps to, and I think, you know, that that leaves room for colorful language.
There's a lot of, I think happening. Yeah. What does that have to do with cussing? So, okay. I get what he's saying. He's like, okay, so there's no objectively bad words because what's good in this culture is bad in another culture.
Fine. But you live in this culture. So you, so you abide by the rules of this culture, right? Like, like if I went to England and I said, Oh, I have this bloody thing or whatever. And they said, Hey, we really don't like that.
I'd say, okay, cool. That's, that's not acceptable here. So if I'm here in America and there's cuss words in America, right. And people are like, Hey, that's a cuss word.
You shouldn't do it. Why now am I being like, well, actually there's no cuss words here. See what you have to understand about microcultures is no. Yeah.
All right. So I think there is room for some colorful language, but I think it should only be spirit led and people might take this totally out of context. I'm not saying cussing is okay.
What I'm saying where I have gotten to in my faith is to realize that Jesus is always caring about the heart. And there's times in the Bible where this intense language is used. And so if we're to prove a point in order to build someone up in order to call them back to Christ, and I think sometimes intense language is necessary even to call out evils. But on the whole, I still think cussing should be taken captive and we should not do it as Christian.
Which I 100% agree. Yes. The whole, the first sentence in this video was I have changed my mind about cussing. He spent a weird, what is this two minutes and 20 seconds and he has said nothing. Yeah. He has made no point.
He has just, it has been a complete circle. Let the video finish. Take what I'm saying is like, you can go cuss now. I'm saying that there are some moments, there are some times where I think it actually emphasizes the truth that we're trying to tell. Dr. Shaw, will the Holy Spirit lead me to cuss?
I just need to, I need to know. I mean, and again, what is cuss word? I think his, his, his discussion should have been a better structure. He should talk about soft cuss words versus the harsh ones. Harsh ones I'm talking about when people use sexual lingo, you know, the harsh crass kind of, that's what harsh cuss words are. Soft ones, you know, the gosh darn kind of stuff. I think those does, that's a soft, I think what he's saying there is a soft one is okay. I don't think he would really go the hardcore cussing.
Hardcore is usually sexual innuendos. You know, that's what he's against. But I think he would be okay with using the H-E double hockey sticks. Some of that, some of that going on. Yeah.
He will use the D-A that one. The beaver's house kind of thing. To go back to what he was saying in the video, like the Bible talks about cursing as like pronouncing a curse upon someone. Using that, like a beaver's house, using that, isn't, is that not the same thing? Because you are talking about that person being condemned to hell. I would say so. Yeah.
But in this situation, I don't think a person is really trying to condemn someone to hell. It's like, like people are upset over what's happening in the Western part of our state. The, the, the inefficiency of our government, whether it's national or state, it has frustrated people to no extent. And so sometimes people say, dee it. Do something. Okay. I get that. You know, that's, that's what I think would be considered in this context as, oh, that's okay. Because you're really trying to get your point across.
But if I were to use another word, which talks about sexual intercourse, would you still have the same effect or would you say, Hey, that's a little much. What are you doing? Want to fight?
I mean, what are you doing? Yeah. That's, I don't know if I approve that. Yeah.
Yeah. I don't think the spirit is going to lead you anywhere where you're going to be using a language like that. I don't think God is signing off on like, Hey, this cuss is okay here. I get what he's saying in a sense. Not that I agree with it, but I understand it. Cause it's what I spent the majority of the intro griping about, which is, I want to get this feeling out. And I'm, I'm restricted from using the words that so far have helped me get this feeling out.
But my point is those feelings don't need to get out that way. You know what I'm saying? I don't need to, I thought I used to, I thought I used to think I needed to swear to be funny or make my point or let people know like the gravity of what this is. But Dr. Ho, you actually gave me, you, you told me one time, who was it? It was the comedian that, that, that scolded the guy. He was teaching a comedy class and the guy was Steve Martin.
Yeah. He, where the guy was cussing. He was like, why are you cussing so much? He was like, Oh, it's to just make it flavorful. And he was like, you're not, if you're cussing to make yourself funny, then you're not really as funny.
That's a great point. Yeah. I think that's, that's what we need to keep in mind that yes, we can get upset, but to cuss, I get it. I get, I get what he's trying to say in the moment you just passionate and you're trying to drive that point home and Hey, just do it one, one, cut it.
And you want to say, you know, D it, do it, you know, get it done. And I get what he's doing. I don't know. I feel like it opens up a larger discussion about becoming a stumbling block to people, because if you are in leadership where people know that your reputation as a Christian or as a prominent leader, a voice for Christianity, and you're using this kind of course language, they're going to make all kinds of assumptions and wrongly. I mean, they shouldn't assume things about you, but you have a responsibility to people. Well, don't be a stumbling block.
A hundred percent. Cause I can tell you this just from, for me, if, if you guys were to start like swearing, I would start swearing. I mean, I would, I would fall back into behavior that I previously felt very convicted of.
If the environment around me allows for it. And I know like, Hey, I'm not going to, you know, I'll, that conviction may come later in life, but it won't come while I'm here. And I remember being convicted about that. I mean, I was like 17, 18, I had been saved for like three years before I actually started working on cleaning my language up. But I remember that how real that conviction felt.
And so I think what you're seeing is right. You are a stumbling block. And I mean, we're, we're Christians. We ought to not be, we ought not to look like the world. Our language should be different.
Yeah. That's the whole point. And Dr. Jha, I've always, I've always found your language to be very inspiring without having to resort to, you don't have to enhance. You remember that SpongeBob episode, those sentence enhancers. You don't have to find creative, cool ways to communicate your point. I've often found that the, the brief pointed truth that you give is often way more impactful than someone's fiery colorful speeches that go on forever and ever. Right.
Right. It's so much better to have that clever witty remark. What I know for many of us, the clever witty remarks don't come when we need them. They'll come later.
Three hours later when I'm like taking a shower before bed, I'm like, ah, I wish I would have said that. I'm going to call him up and say it now. Yeah. And I mean, we want to be Churchill, but we end up just being what?
Like a chipmunk. No, who was the guy, who was the guy he replaced? Chamberlain. Chamberlain, the guy who couldn't, nobody liked. Yeah. We want to be Churchill. We ended up being Chamberlain. Yeah.
I don't want to be Chamberlain. I got this from, wasn't it Chamberlain who got it, got the notes signed by Hitler. I got it from Hitler himself.
And he's not going to invade nothing? Nope. He put his name on a piece of paper. You see this?
This is the paper. He just invaded Czechoslovakia. Oh, hate that for you. What? Yeah, he took it. I'm going to put it back in my pocket. His mom hung it up on the refrigerator. We're going to put it right there.
I hope it says Chamberlain. No. This is the same drinking thing.
Can we do it? And I don't feel like people do this one, hit this one as hard as they do with the drinking thing. We did an episode on that, but it's the same thing. It's something that you shouldn't do. It's like, I know, but does the Bible call it a sin? Am I allowed to?
I know you think I shouldn't, but can I? It's the wrong question. 100%. That's right. That's right.
I know there are times life will be frustrating, but I promise you it'll be more frustrating with people in your own life and you will lose your cool with them. And that's where it really comes down to. We're trying to, from the pulpit, use it, especially to pastors. Don't do it. Don't do it. Yeah, don't do that.
There's never a good reason. Or in a Sunday school class, or sometimes youth pastors have done that. Yeah. You don't want to sound like SpongeBob and Patrick, man. That's what y'all sound like when you cut. Seriously, it sounds silly now. It sounds silly to me. It doesn't sound cool anymore.
And I think it's one of those things that there's no positive. If you need to enhance your speech that much, I feel like you just need to get better at speaking. Yeah, 100%. And that has helped me tremendously because when I restrict myself, even creatively, when you start taking all those things that make you comfortable away, you stretch yourself and you become more comfortable with how you communicate.
That's right. Be more purposeful in what you're saying. And there are times you may be upset, but I don't know. Plan out. Yeah, 100%. Yeah.
Yeah. Don't let your emotions drive you. Say what you mean to say. That's right. And out of the overflow of your mouth, your heart will speak. Nah, I mean, just keep talking.
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It's coming from our Clear View Today Show family. John, you got anything you want to plug? Yes. Two things. Number one, our album, our very first album, Heaven Here and Now, it drops in two days.
Yes. Two days. Or three days. No, it's two days. Yeah, two days.
Not counting today. It drops on the 13th. Make sure you pick it up. Other thing is, November is getting closer. Make sure you buy Dr. Shah's book, 30 Days Praying for America. Now is the time. Seriously, we've been talking about it all this time, all summer, but the day is drawing close, and we need you guys to be voting your biblical values. Make sure you pick up that book.
It's going to be in the description below. Absolutely. You guys have a wonderful weekend. Find somewhere to plug in, worship with God's family. We'll see you bright and early Monday morning for a week full of great content. We love you guys. We'll see you Monday on Clearly Today.
