>> WEAK Yes. The Old Testament said we can swear.
- Numbers 30:2: If a man vow a vow unto the Lord, or swear an oath . . . he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.
- Genesis 21:22-24,31: Swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me . . . And Abraham said, I will swear. . . . Wherefore he called that place Beersheba ["well of the oath"]; because there they sware both of them.
- Hebrews 6:13-17: For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself . . . for men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath.
See also Genesis 22:15-19, Genesis 31:53, and Judges 11:30-39.
< While it does say in the OT that we can swear, Jesus simply raised the bar into stricter standards to avoid sin.
Please see the following argument.
< STRONG No. Jesus commanded that Christians shouldn't swear anymore. (Biblical)
- Matthew 5:34-37: But I say unto you, swear not at all; neither by heaven . . . nor by the earth . . . . Neither shalt thou swear by thy head . . . . But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
- James 5:12: Swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
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