I look at these four acts, murder, adultery, divorce and oaths, as outward expressions of something that is going on inside. Murder and adultery are expressions of something that come from the inside, preceded by some sort of mental decision. They could be spontaneous in some cases, I suppose. Divorce, on the other hand, I think would be the result of a longer period of time of smaller decisions (in most cases, anyway). All three of these are negative actions.
But what's wrong with an oath? I think it's because that an oath is sort of set up outside of oneself to impact one's own behaviour. I make an oath, and now I am bound by the oath. Instead, I think what Jesus wants is for us to be the kind of people that do what we're supposed to without the need for outside influences.
Again, I think it's not the doing that is at issue, it is the being.
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