More than once in the New Testament, theApostle Paul gives testimony and swears to his truthfulness by taking an oath in the name of God. Oaths such as these are legitimate, but swearing by the earth, by the heavens, or on our mothers’ graves is not, because when we swear by such things, we are slipping into a form of idolatry. If a person swears on his mother’s grave to verify his words, his mother’s grave has no power to enforce that promise. It is an empty promise. And when we swear by things that are less than God, we attribute to those things the very power of God Himself. We act as
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