Is it possible to give an oath to a person? How Spiritual Vows and Vows Are Ruining Your Life
How should lunch be given? Well, how do they give lunch to God, so as not to do something? Should this be done in church? and got the best answer
Answer from Yyrka Ivanov[guru]
Not all churches today practice vows (“promises”), although the Bible calls for it. I know about some people who made vows to God in the most difficult life situations. A vow is a holy and inviolable promise to God when a person needs something really important from Him. Here are examples to help you understand the meaning: a person dies of an incurable disease. He makes a vow to God that he will serve Him if God spares his life. And God preserves if this vow pleases Him.
Often people made vows during the war: if I stay alive, I will build a church, etc.
We must not forget that there is a fine line between a vow and trading with God. Everything is to the detriment of the wicked. Those who are honest with God even practice casting lots, or answering according to the Bible. The wicked will turn it into fortune telling. Therefore, most churches today do not practice or advise this.
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And also a guru!
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They consist of:
Reply from Delia Delia[guru]
They make a VOW to God - a promise, an oath.
And share LUNCH with a friend))
Light a candle and read any prayer
And then - eradicate all the vices and imperfections in yourself
Reply from Looking for God[guru]
It is advisable to serve lunch on time, on a plate with a blue border, placed on a tray along with a saucer and cup and with a towel thrown over the arm... salt, pepper, butter, sour cream, vinegar, mayonnaise - to taste as needed...
Reply from EZHULYA[guru]
Lunch - eating. . Vow - oath, promise
Reply from Birkart[guru]
before the crucifixion they give it, and it doesn’t matter where - be it at home or in church
Reply from Vetch[guru]
any oath is not from God. He taught how to say yes or no.
You can't be sure that you'll never break your vow... .
There are certain vows, for example, “celibacy”, then this is the case with some priests... that is, among people with a much stronger Spirit and faith.
Reply from Agapi[guru]
Vadim, it’s probably still a VOW?
No vows needed. And no oaths are needed.
The Lord knows everything. Come, light a candle, remember your family for health and peace.
Talk mentally - the Lord is calling you to him, your soul is crying.
God's help! Guardian Angel!
Reply from Ekaterina Pasechnik[active]
Why should you take a vow? Is God calling you to this?
Reply from Kseniya[guru]
Are you talking about the meal? Or about promises? There is no need to make a promise. They may not be fulfilled easily and various reasons. They bring repentance to God and subsequently the person works on himself to improve his life...
Reply from Yovetyashka MaTHeD Koltunova[guru]
First, make a vow to yourself - to read a Russian language textbook. It will be more useful for you))
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And also a guru!
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Indeed, there are vows in the Church. And a person takes the very first of these vows at BAPTISM. These vows are called - VOWS OF BAPTISM.
They consist of:
1. In renunciation of Satan, his works, and service to him.
2. And accepting Christ - in accepting a holy, pure life, following Christ, serving.
In principle, if you are a baptized person, then you have already made almost all the basic CHRISTIAN vows. That is, all unnecessary, sinful, unrighteous things should already be left aside right from the time you were baptized.
If some things, for example, of an ascetic plan or God forbid sinful things are still present in your life, then there is such a thing as Confession.
Confession is a thing that allows a person to RENEW their baptismal vows. In the event that a person was baptized in an unconscious state. Baptism took place simply mechanically as a rite - and the person in spirit has not heard of any renunciation of Satan, and even more so does not know that now he is a Man of Holy Life, then he can simply go through confession for his entire life. This will be the acceptance of the vow.
What is an oath and why can’t you swear?
Priest Afanasy Gumerov, resident of the Sretensky Monastery, answers:
An oath is an assurance to another of the truth of what is said or done. The Hebrew text of the Bible uses two words: shevua (Gen. 21:31) and ala (26:28). The one who swore called on God to be a witness to what he was saying (Deut. 10:1-22). This custom was enshrined in the Law of Moses: " Fear the Lord your God and serve Him alone, and cleave to Him and swear by His name"(Deut.10.20). The sacred books of the Old Testament contain many examples of establishing agreements using an oath.
"And the time came for Israel to die, and he called his son Joseph and said: If I have found favor in your sight, put your hand on my thigh and swear that you will show me mercy..."(Gen.47:29)". " And Moses swore that day and said: "the ground on which your foot has walked..." (Joshua 14:9) " David swore and said: Your father knows well..." (1 Samuel 20:3). “The king will rejoice in God; everyone who swears by Him will be praised, for the lips that speak lies will be stopped." (Ps. 62:12). The passages cited are enough to see that this custom of taking an oath in itself did not contain anything sinful. The Savior in the Sermon on the Mount abolished this Old Testament rite because he gave new law- spiritual. Now the witness of fidelity in the fulfillment of what was said is conscience (glorious conscience, co-messenger) - the voice of God in man. According to the words of the apostle: " I speak the truth in Christ, I do not lie, my conscience bears witness to me in the Holy Spirit" (Rom.9.1). Let us cite other passages from the Epistles of St. Apostle Paul: " God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of His Son, that I remember you continually."(Rom.1.9), " I call God to be a witness on my soul, that, sparing you, I have not yet come to Corinth" (2 Cor. 1:23), " The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, blessed forever, knows that I do not lie" (2 Cor. 11:31), " God is my witness that I love you all with the love of Jesus Christ"(Phil.1:8), " For we never had before you any words of endearment, as you know, or any form of self-interest: God is my witness!" (1 Thess. 2:5) " And the Angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the earth, He raised his hand to heaven and swore by Him who lives forever and ever, who created the sky and everything in it, the earth and everything in it, and the sea and everything in it, that time would be no more." (Rev. 10:5-6). Jesus Christ in the words " don't swear" abolished a specific Old Testament rite, because conscience becomes a witness to the faithfulness of a word or deed.In some verbal collisions, combinations of words, and even in individual words, sometimes something strange and even mystical is encountered. On the one hand, in the 21st century we have stopped trusting words. Perhaps this was facilitated by the yellow press and the fables that filled the Internet, but the word means little these days. The statements of Zhirinovsky alone, who today publicly says one thing and tomorrow the exact opposite, are worth a lot.
The lesson’s phrase from the famous movie: “What can’t be said in a funny conversation” has become volatile and is perceived as an excuse for any lie and nonsense. But, on the other hand, there are special words. For example, the amazing and strange word “I swear.” The meaning and amplitude of this word are enormous. From the everyday “I swear by my mother” to the completely official “I swear, when exercising the powers of the President, to observe the Constitution...” or, for example, the medical Hippocratic oath. Why? What's so special about this word?
Oath in everyday life
Indeed, why are the words of the same root “oath”, “I swear”, “curse” even in the most ordinary, everyday life filled with significant, even solemn content? We swear by the most precious things: “parents”, “children’s lives”, “all saints”, “honor”, etc. The word “oath”, like “faith”, “God”, “mother”, “father”, are already connected at the genetic level in our minds with concepts so serious and significant that they cannot simply be thrown to the wind. In Soviet, atheistic times, this phenomenon was understood and already in childhood we took an oath “to be faithful to the cause of Lenin and communist party", joining the pioneers, and an oath of allegiance to the Motherland, taking the military oath.
The history of the oath dates back thousands of years. Even among the ancients this word played an important role. Let us recall at least the oath of the Horatii brothers to take revenge on their enemies or die, the oath of Oedipus, who swore to the people to find the killer of King Laius, or the famous Hannibal oath to be an enemy of Rome until death. The oath ritual has incredibly passed through the centuries and has survived to this day. Moreover, not only in religion, but also in ordinary secular life. From a wedding oath of love between the bride and groom, a magical blood oath, an oath at knighting, to the most modern, annual oath of allegiance for first-year students of the Moscow Academy of Water Transport Russian fleet. But especially great value, of course, has an oath in religion.
Oath in Judaism
In cult and ethical standards Judaism, the oath served and still serves as a solemn seal of obligations as individuals, and society as a whole. In the Torah ( Old Testament) an oath is associated with calling God as a witness and with the readiness to accept punishment from the Almighty in case of its violation. At the same time, the idea was created that God was sealing the promise. The court even recognized an oath as a form of evidence and could release the defendant from a claim only on the basis of an oath. In religious circles, a false oath or its violation is considered one of the most serious mortal sins: “Yahweh will not spare the one who takes Him in vain...”.
In modern times, it became possible to free oneself from the oath, but this required the help of a rabbi or three members of the community. At the same time, the person taking the oath had to explain why he was refusing the oath. Later, starting from the 17th century, the swearing of all participants in a trial became mandatory. At the same time, frightening and rather humiliating curses were pronounced for the Jews in case of breaking the oath: “If I lied, let the earth open up and swallow me alive,” etc. Since the mid-nineteenth century, in many European countries these curses and rituals, humiliating for Jews, were abolished. All that remained were the words: “I swear by the name of the God of Israel.”
When taking an oath, religious Jews raise their right hand. Sometimes it was enough to raise your hand, which meant “I swear.” They swore by “life” (indicated by whose), “heaven”, “earth”, “Temple”, “Jerusalem”. The most inviolable and sacred was, and is still considered today, an oath in the name of God.
Oath in Christianity
For Christians, the oath loses its meaning. In the Gospel of Matthew we read the words of Jesus Christ from the Sermon on the Mount: “And I say: do not swear at all. Neither heaven, because it is the throne of God, nor the earth, because it is His footstool, nor Jerusalem, because it is the city of the great King. There will be a word for you: “yes, yes” or “no, no.” At the same time, conscience becomes a witness to a person’s fidelity to his word, which, according to Christians, is the voice of God inside a person. The New Testament quotes the words of the Apostle Paul, “I speak the truth in Christ, as my conscience bears witness to me...”.
But there are also some contradictions. According to some Christian theologians and religious philosophers, we are not talking about the complete abolition of the oath, but only about the prohibition of swearing by those specific concepts that Christ spoke about. Moreover, further in the New Testament we read: “The angel raised his hand to heaven and swore to Him who lives forever.” Christians followed and still follow the oath, both priests and councils different years. In many Christian countries, those testifying in court or taking the oath of office as head of state swear by placing their hand on the Bible.
Oath in Islam
Muslims can swear, but only in the name of Allah. Oaths “with the life of the mother”, “with your life”, “with the life of the children” and others of this kind are undesirable. Muslims have oaths three types: empty, false and real. An empty oath used in conversation is nothing more than a figure of speech and, according to Islamic theologians, it is better to avoid it. A false oath, especially a deliberately false one, is, as in other religions, one of the most big sins. A valid oath is usually accompanied by the words “I swear by Allah” or “I swear by the One who controls human souls.” Failure to fulfill such an oath requires not only repentance, but also atonement. Moreover, there are two types of redemption. Either feed 10 beggars (you can also feed one beggar for 10 days), or fast for three days. But there is one caveat. If the person who took the oath ended it with the words “... if Allah wills,” then failure to fulfill it does not matter.
Oath in Buddhism
For followers of Buddha (Buddhism, by the way, is not so much a religion as a philosophy), an oath or vow is also of great importance. Two oaths are of particular interest. Bodhisattva Oath - Buddhists 
who have achieved Supreme Enlightenment. They vow to take upon themselves the burden of human suffering, and the oath of those entering the path of Buddha is to free their own consciousness from evil, envy, aggression and other bad qualities.
Among the Buddhist oaths there are some that cannot be found in other religions. I especially remember the oath to strive for boundless peace and the oath to become an angel after death. 
-a guardian for his children and grandchildren. There is also an oath - never take any oaths. Upon acceptance of this oath, all others are considered invalid.
Afterword
I believe in God. I believe in a Supreme Mind. I believe in the sacred semantic content of some words and, especially, the word “oath”. It is enough to remember the same root word “curse” to be convinced of this. The ancestral curse of the Kennedy clan, in which, for the sins of the robber Patrick Kennedy, who lived in the 19th century, people died and are dying to this day as a result of murders, suicides and various plane and car accidents 
members of this famous family cannot be a coincidence.
The word “oath”, like other words with the same root, must be pronounced carefully, not forgetting possible consequences. Human thought expressed in words is not an empty shock of air. Isn't that what he's talking about? folk wisdom: “Silence is golden?”
Lev Madorsky
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Good evening! My name is Tatyana. And I'm tormented by one question. I've been married for almost 11 years. Family life It was difficult: my husband either drank, or spent a lot of time with friends, and in general, a lot of bad things happened. Against the backdrop of all this, I also had an infatuation with a man for several years. The husband knows nothing about this. It's all over now. The family, thank God, survived. I began to have hope that everything could be fine. But a little over a year ago, when my husband and I were at odds again, it suddenly seemed to me that I was pregnant. And since the relationship with my husband was, to put it mildly, tense, I became afraid that my second child would grow up in such a family, and see either a drunk dad, or else the dad would spend his time somewhere. And then I said, turning to God, albeit quietly, but still said out loud, that I would leave my husband if I was not pregnant. Later it turned out that I was not in a position. And this promise hung like a stone on my soul. We are still together, but the thoughts that I did not keep my word do not leave me. I was completely “stupid” to make such a promise. But what to do now? Besides repentance, what should I do? What is more correct in this case: destroy the family and keep the promise, or stay but break the word? Help! These thoughts are already tormenting me! It's my own fault, but still...
Tatiana
Hello, Tatyana. Foolish vows are not pleasing to God. He doesn't accept them. You need to repent, but not for not keeping your promise, but for the fact that it occurred to you to make it in the first place.
Priest Alexander Beloslyudov
Can a man swear by his children?
Paul
Paul, Holy Scripture tells us directly and categorically: “do not swear at all” - this is a sin; there is more to swear by your own children - whoever does this does not love his children. We are not able to correct the events; only God can do this.
Hieromonk Victorin (Aseev)
Hello, father! I ask for your spiritual guidance, since I myself no longer know what to do in my situation. My husband and I have been living together for more than 10 years. We have two daughters, the youngest is 3.5 months old. My husband is very good, he never laid a hand on me or offended me with a word. But he drinks a lot, every day, when he returns from work, he is either drunk or drunk, this has been going on for quite a long time. He promised me many times that this would be the last time, but it still continues. Even if it’s a glass of beer, he’ll still drink it. If he doesn’t drink, it’s 1-4 days. You see, many people say: “What do you want, he goes to work, brings money”... My children smell alcohol in the house every day, it’s unpleasant for me, how many times have I begged him with tears and scandals, it didn’t work, I asked him in a good way , begged - nothing. So, the day before yesterday I sat down with him, talked, said that he needed the help of a doctor, and he: “I’m on my own, that’s it, this is the last time,” and again yesterday - the smell of alcohol. I couldn’t stand it and said that I was going to the registry office to apply for divorce. Father, the problem is that in a fit of anger I said that I swear that I am going to the registry office, but I myself cannot do this, as I can imagine - it’s so hard. What can you advise or suggest to me? Thank you very much in advance.
Marina
Dear Marina, it’s not good, of course, that your spouse regularly drinks alcohol, but only real alcoholism, medically certified, can be a reason for divorce. Therefore, before filing for divorce, consider whether it will be better for you and for the children if you are left alone. One misfortune will go away, but another may come in its place, worse than the first. I urge you to earnest prayer, regular attendance at church and participation in the sacraments of the Church. The Lord will help you and enlighten you on how best to act.
Archpriest Andrey Efanov
I had a fight with a girl and swore that I would not meet with her again, but we want to make peace, how should I deal with the oath?
Victor
Dear Victor! You need to go to confession, repent of this sin, and never make stupid vows again (and you don’t even need smart ones)! God bless you!
Archpriest Andrey Efanov
In my youth, I committed a great sin - I swore as a child in front of icons in the church that I was supposedly innocent before my husband, but circumstances developed in such a way that I had to lie and make this oath. The marriage was saved (my husband died two years ago), I am now an adult, but all my life I have been tormented by this sinful act! Help! Tell me how to remove the stone from the soul? And I have not been on good terms with my daughter for a long time (she was replaced - no respect for me, no sympathy, no affection). Maybe it all comes from this?
Irina
There is only one answer - go to church for confession. Pray for the repose of your husband and for health, mutual love with your daughter. Let this reconcile you with your own conscience.
Archpriest Maxim Khizhiy
Hello! I made an oath to my loved ones and did not fulfill the oath (regarding smoking). My boyfriend says that we will soon die because I swore and did not fulfill. I’m very scared, I don’t want to lose my loved ones, but I also can’t quit smoking.
Maria
Hello Maria! The Holy Scripture says: “Do not swear by heaven or earth or by any other oath” (Matthew 5: 33-37). What you swore and what you broke the oath must be repented in confession. But still quit smoking: after all, health, this precious gift given by God, is so easy to lose.
Priest Vladimir Shlykov
I swore as a child that I would not smoke again, and I systematically break this promise.
Anastasia
Anastasia, you cannot take oaths at all, especially in relation to your children and loved ones. You must definitely repent of your sins in church, including this one, and take communion. Don't do this again in the future.
Hieromonk Victorin (Aseev)
Hello, my husband makes me swear as a child that I was faithful to him. He threatens to break off our relationship if I don’t do this. Tell me, how can I convince him that this is all serious?
Dinara
Dinara, remind your spouse that a Christian should not swear: “But I say to you: do not swear at all: neither by heaven, because it is the throne of God; nor by the earth, because it is His footstool; nor by Jerusalem, because it is the city of the great King; Do not swear by your head, for you cannot make a single hair white or black. But let your word be: yes, yes, no; and anything beyond this is from the evil one" (Matthew 5:34-38) . God bless you.
Priest Sergius Osipov
My wife and I want to swear to each other that we will not cheat, how to do this?
Andrey
I don't like your idea! If there is reason not to trust each other, then we must go to confession in church and ask God to grant us the strength to be faithful. And if you swear, you won’t last long.
Archpriest Maxim Khizhiy
Hello! I swore on my daughter’s health not to play cards for money, and I broke my oath, and now I feel terrible.
Victor
Victor, it is forbidden to take oaths, and even more so, to swear by your family. You need to repent in church in confession of this and your other sins. The Lord will forgive. And stop playing cards - gambling has never done anyone any good.
Hieromonk Victorin (Aseev)
Hello! I have this situation: I swore to my man that I didn’t date another man, I swore to my mom, but at the same time I crossed my fingers. I despise myself for doing this! I really didn't want to break up with him, so I had to do it, I hoped that if I crossed my fingers, the vow would be invalid. How can I atone for this sin before God? What will happen now?
Alexandra
Alexandra, all sins are forgiven at confession in church. Both your oath and your “fingers crossed” are superstitions of the same breed. Both the bogey and the lie during the bogey speaks of your weak idea of faith, of God, and of love too. We need to understand our feelings, our relationships with the stronger sex - that’s where the problem lies, I think. Faith and fidelity are words with the same root. From our faith comes marital fidelity, the absence of frivolous relationships, and prayer for loved ones. Here's what you need to think about before confession.
Archpriest Maxim Khizhiy
Father, help. I swore on my children about something I really didn’t do (but they accused me of it). What should I do? I’m very worried about my children.
Evgenia
Hello, Evgenia! “Above all, my brethren, do not swear by heaven or earth or by any other oath, but let it be “yes, yes” and “no, no,” so that you do not fall into condemnation,” the Holy Scripture teaches us. (James 5:2). We need to repent of this sin in confession and pray for the children.
Priest Vladimir Shlykov
I swore on the health of my child, and I really regret it and repent, what should I do to make amends?
Natalia
Natalia, we do not have the right to take oaths, especially to take oaths in relation to our children and close relatives. You need to immediately go to church and repent of this and all other sins to the priest in confession. And in the future you need to be very careful with your words.
Hieromonk Victorin (Aseev)
Hello, father! I have been married for 5 months, the marriage has been completed. I have such a problem, after marriage my wife began to control me in many ways and did not allow me to communicate with women from the past, on this basis we had many quarrels, but I continued this communication on the sly from her, but I did not cheat. But the other day my wife saw this call to a woman from the past, I swore that I didn’t call, I deceived her. But she found out the truth and said that she could not live with a liar. Is it a sin to communicate with women just like that, and why should you get a divorce? In general, my wife left me and filed for divorce. Which of us is to blame, maybe her impatience and jealousy over trifles? She belongs to my church. So what should I do?
Alexey
Alexey, if “women from the past” had intimate relationships with you, then your wife can be understood. I don’t think that contacts with young ladies will remain harmless. Put yourself in your wife’s place: she innocently meets her former cohabitants... Will you not care? I advise you to limit your relationships with the opposite sex and make peace with your wife.
Archpriest Maxim Khizhiy
Hello, my husband went on a spree (marriage), today he swore on the icon of the Mother of God and lied. What will happen to him, or to our children, or to me, his wife? And how to live with him further? But we have 4 children.
Catherine
Hello, Ekaterina! A false oath is a sin that must be repented of. Each person is responsible for his own sins. If you know for sure that your husband is cheating, then you need to talk to him seriously so that he makes a choice. Of course, it is impossible to condone obvious sin. Taking final decision, you must definitely consult with a priest at confession.
Priest Vladimir Shlykov
My aunt made me swear on her health that I would not register credit card, but I need her, and I swore, although I knew in advance that I would take her, what should I do?
Inna
Hello, Inna! That is why the apostle tells us: “Above all, my brethren, do not swear by heaven or earth, or by any other oath, but let it be “yes, yes” and “no, no,” so that you do not fall into condemnation" (James 5:12). Repent of this sin in confession and do not swear in the future.
Priest Vladimir Shlykov
Hello. I'm a sinner. How to remove sin? I swore as a child.
Natalia
Natalia, in the Church there is no such thing as “removal” of sin. We we repent in sin in the sacrament of confession. The fact that you swore by your child is, of course, a sin. And therefore, you need to come to church for confession to the priest, and tell him everything (and preferably not only about this, but also about all your sins). And if you make a promise to God to improve and sincerely repent of your sins, then the Lord will forgive. After confession, if the priest allows, you need to take communion, and before communion you need to fast and read prayers for Holy Communion. This is the only way you can find peace in your soul.
Hieromonk Victorin (Aseev)
Good afternoon, tell me how to explain to my girlfriend that I can’t swear on her health, when it comes to something important, she very often asks me about it, but I can’t... well, I just can’t and that’s all, and even if I didn’t lie, I still I also think that this may somehow affect her health, and I don’t swear, and she definitely thinks that I’m lying, no matter how I prove the opposite to her, and this leads to very sad consequences, quarrels, she becomes colder towards me, because of this mistrust , I just don’t know how to explain to her that I will never, under any circumstances, swear on her health, even if it ends in separation, and she immediately says that you love me and I am dear to you and that’s why you don’t want to swear on them because you’re lying. I have no words for this anymore. she doesn’t understand at all, but she believes in God and leads a very correct lifestyle and doesn’t believe in God in her own way, covering up and justifying her sins with something... no, she doesn’t do that and is always very self-critical and always, so to speak, engaged in self-knowledge and knowledge of God, well, but she doesn’t understand me and that’s all, please tell me how to explain this to her, I don’t understand it myself.. I can express it in words, why I won’t swear on her health, please tell me how to do it, how to explain it to her
Enrico
Hello Enrico. We are allowed to swear only on our word of honor. "Let your word be 'yes' - 'yes', 'no' - 'no', and anything more than this is from the evil one." That is, we are responsible only for our decision, which we can fulfill according to our will. Someone’s health does not depend on our frivolous words, but by deliberately uttering them, we sin by appropriating for ourselves what does not belong to us. Even our own health and life are in God’s hands. We can only create conditions for God's providence. And in this we are completely responsible. For example, we are fully responsible for the fact that knowing God’s commandment about the sanctity of marriage, “a man shall leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh,” we avoid fulfilling it out of selfishness. We pick flowers without worrying about the roots. This is what you should pay attention to.
Priest Alexander BeloslyudovTatiana
Tatyana, a family should have trust in each other. You need to repent in church and confess your sin. Go to church more often, go to confession and receive communion. If you do not have serious sins behind you, then rest assured. There's no need to prove too much. You need to build relationships on trust. One word should be enough that you are faithful to him, and, of course, there is no need to make vows.
Hieromonk Victorin (Aseev)
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Nowadays, many people, without thinking about dire consequences, make vows, and then, having broken them, begin to rush around and do not know what to do.
In addition to curses and “killer words,” there are words that, when said, can cause irreparable harm to one’s destiny, especially if one says them rashly and thoughtlessly. They are “words-oaths”. People swear by their lives, parents, health, children, luck, God, imposing an invisible seal of prohibition on all these dear concepts, which works until they fulfill the oath. And it doesn’t matter whether the person gave it jokingly, without at all attaching much importance to the words he said, or whether it was “snatched” from him by those around him. As soon as a person swears, according to psychics, the course of events in his karmic body is irrevocably disrupted. It’s not for nothing that the word “oath” and the word “curse” have the same root.
People swear without thinking about the consequences. For example, when they say: “let me not have money,” they do not suspect that they are thereby killing their own financial luck. And until they take off this oath, given, most likely, out of stupidity, nothing in their life will change for the better.
A phrase like: “I will never marry again,” which a woman exhausted in an unhappy marriage can say in her hearts, immediately places the crown of celibacy on this woman.
The most terrible thing, as researchers say, a person’s life is influenced by an oath in which he gives part of his destiny to some person. Thus, psychics know many examples of when parents whose children are sick ask in their hearts to take their health away and give it to their child. As a rule, this does not make the children feel any better, while the parents themselves begin to get sick, sometimes very badly. No matter how much you want to help to a loved one, you need to remember: everyone has their own destiny, and by sacrificing their destiny, no one managed to bring benefit to their loved ones, much less to themselves.
When people say that they would give their life or soul for someone, they usually do not live long. And if someone swears on the health of their own children, then the children pay for breaking the oath, and with the most expensive thing - their health. If a person swears by his parents and breaks this vow, then misfortune falls on the eldest in the family, which means that through them the one who takes the oath is punished.
The word “oath,” according to V. Dahl, comes from “curse,” meaning “curse” or “scold.” Other dictionaries define an oath as a promise or duty undertaken. But one thing is obvious: the oath, being a moral category, imposes specific restrictions on people.
In ancient times, when a person made an oath to God and broke it, a huge crucifix was burned with a candle on the gate of his house. The oathbreaker kissed the cross and said a special prayer. After which he ate the earth, as many handfuls as there were ends of the crucifix. It was believed that if the perjurer remained alive, this meant that God had forgiven him, and if not, it meant that he was not forgiven.
The proverb says: “Where there is an oath, there is a crime!” In Rus', oath-breaking or oath-breaking has long been considered a serious crime and a great sin.
IN Holy Scripture it is said that, having made a vow to one’s God, one must immediately fulfill it, since God will definitely exact it from the person and he will have sin. The Prophet Ecclesiastes said that it is better not to swear than to swear and break.
A Christian who committed an oath, even one who repented, was subjected to ten years of excommunication from the church. By the way, perjury Orthodox Christianity refers to mortal sins for which even the descendants of sinners are responsible.
Recently, one of the Moscow newspapers published M.’s story, which aroused a variety of opinions among readers. M., who is thirty today, lost his beloved girlfriend five years ago, with whom he had been together since school. The girl suffered from epilepsy. She died after another attack. Standing at the coffin, M., being in a state of prostration, swore to the dead girl that he would not love anyone like her and that he would be alone all his life. However, after two years of loneliness, he realized that this condition was beginning to weigh on him, his youth was leaving, and he was not married. But in a strange way, he could not connect his life with any of the girls he liked, nothing worked out for him. But that was not all: M., to whom his first love came every night in a dream, began to waste away, lost the sparkle in his eyes, became weak and lost. One day, when he was alone at home, he heard a knock on the door. Opening it, M. saw his girlfriend - pale, with curls below the waist, she confidently asked to leave her for the night open door to the balcony so that it would be easier for her to come to him. M. clearly remembered holding her hand, and in the morning, waking up, he saw that the door to the balcony was open, and on the table there were two cups of tea and candy wrappers from his girlfriend’s favorite sweets. Gradually the condition young man it got so bad that his parents forcibly took him to a psychologist. The specialist conducted several sessions with him and advised him to mentally let go of his beloved. However, nothing helped. No matter how much M. tried, nothing worked for him. And one day a girl in a dream threatened him with revenge if he broke his oath. Seeing her son’s fading state, M.’s mother took him to a psychic. She performed some kind of ritual and ordered me to pray and say certain words every day for a certain time. Gradually M. became much easier. Things started to look up for him. And one day, in a dream, a girl asked to bring her a ring and several of her things that her lover had left to the cemetery. A year later M. got married. Before the wedding, he last saw his ex-girlfriend in a dream, who wished him happiness. Through the newspaper in which his story was published, M. strongly advised and asked all readers not to take an oath, not to swear on anything expensive, especially at the coffin, since it is not always possible to fulfill it, and then life turns into torture.
Many still take the oath today. True, crosses are not burned on the doors of oathbreakers, but the oathbreakers themselves, realizing that they have broken an oath, turn to healers, witches and fortune tellers for help, so that they would help them and free them from the oath.
“I swear on my children”, “I swear on God”, “I swear on my health”...
Such vows often play the role of a kind of trump card when sorting out relationships with a spouse, lover, etc. With their help, some try to make the desired impression on a person and win an argument. They may win the argument, but they will definitely lose the war with fate. After all, such oaths always turn against the one who pronounces them, as well as against his loved ones.