INDIVIDUAL MOTIVE BEHIND OATHS, VOWS AND CURSES

SOME OF US KNOW THE FORCE BEHIND THESE WORDS YET, WE JOKE WITH IT

An oath is the invocation of God’s name to bear witness to the truth of what someone is saying. The oath may be either assertive or promissory. It is assertive when the Divine Name is called upon in testimony of the truth of some past or present fact or event, for example, that a crime was not committed. The oath is promissory when a person calls upon God to testify that a promise made will be kept.

A vow is a free and deliberate promise made to God to do something that is morally good and more pleasing to God than its omission. Always understood is that a person would commit a sin by violating the promise. Vows are pleasing to God because in taking them a person goes beyond the call of duty to be generous with God.

Cursing is the sin of calling on God to inflict some evil or injury on someone. In a way, cursing is a form of blasphemy. Every curse arises from hatred of another person, to the point of wanting that person to suffer at the hands of God.

All I'm trying to say is don't promise your friend,brother,partner etc what you can't stick to