Cursing In The Name Of The Lord?

[MithLuin]

[b]Jon[/b], St. Maximillian Kolbe was martyred at Auschwitz in 1942. So, that should place him in time/history for you a bit....

One could call that symbol a [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Cross]Marian Cross[/url]. I don't know if there's a better name for it, other than, "that cross on the Miraculous Medal that represents Mary at Calvary."

As for the topic of this thread, if you're going to curse something, at the very least, tacking on an "if it be Your will" would probably be a good idea.

The word "curse" only appears a few times in the New Testament (more common in the Old):
[list]Peter's denial of Christ
"bless those who curse you" as part of Jesus' instruction to love our enemies, and repeated in Romans
enemies put [i]themselves[/i] under a curse in Acts
James warns against using the tongue for both blessing and cursing.
In Galatians, being under the Law is compared to being under a curse (twice)
And the very last chapter of the very last book of the Bible says there will be no more curse[/list]

The instruction is Luke and Matthew to bless- not curse- our enemies seems to speak against it. The passage in the third chapter of James is also pretty clear:

[quote]But no one can tame the tongue; it is a restless evil and full of deadly poison. With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the likeness of God; from the same mouth come both blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be this way. Does a fountain send out from the same opening both fresh and bitter water? Can a fig tree, my brethren, produce olives, or a vine produce figs? Nor can salt water produce fresh. [/quote]

The only passages which would lend some credence to this would be when Jesus cursed the fig tree, or something from the Old Testament (where one was permitted to treat enemies that way).

[quote]Now in the morning, when He was returning to the city, He became hungry. Seeing a lone fig tree by the road, He came to it and found nothing on it except leaves only; and He said to it, "No longer shall there ever be any fruit from you." And at once the fig tree withered.

Seeing this, the disciples were amazed and asked, "How did the fig tree wither all at once?"

And Jesus answered and said to them, "Truly I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, `Be taken up and cast into the sea,' it will happen. And all things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive."[/quote]

So, if you [i]are[/i] going to go about cursing things, it should be done in the form of praying in faith for miracles, not anything that could be mixed up with evil eyes and the like. I had not heard this particular story about Max Kolbe, but whether or not it is true, it's heavy duty spiritual warfare, and one should never enter into that lightly.

Edited January 11, 2010 by MithLuin