HOW COME THEY SPELL GOD AS G-D? I HEARD SOMEWHERE IT IS BECAUSE IT SAYS DOG SPELLED BACKWARD. IS THIS TRUE.\nI NOTICE A FEW JEWISH PEOPLE DOING THAT.
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We don't write out G-d's name because then we wouldn't be allowed to erase it. It can only be written in texts that are published and intended to be permanent such as the Bible, prayer books, etc. In a forum like this where messages get deleted or where we may need to erase and make corrections we attempt not to write it out. G-d's name is considered to be too holy and sacred to be erased. \n\nHope that answers your question.
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"God" the term is the Old English as translated from Greek and Latin using the Germanic word in closest relation to the English/Germanic/Dutch or early European use were the terms;guþ, guthan,gheu,ghu...the Germanic form *gott* being the most common vernacular at the time of the first translations to English dialects.  It typically meant "to invoke" or "to pour out" .Then to add the defining of the Tetragrammation of the Hebraic name for "God", which "God" in Hebrew is believed to originally rendered "Elohim". However the true and actual name of God is not certain but because of the "believed" definition of the Hebrew Tetragrammation of YHVH or as Hebrew translate Yod Hey Vav Hey...or in english Jehovah. I tried like mad to find the pronouciation and meaning of the whole but I am positive that the Yod means "I am" though some translations equate the whole name of God as being "I am the one I am" meaning self-existant one. Or also as for Moses "I am what I need to become". Meaning that lovingly as in "poof! Whaddya need." essentially as He was consistantly there for His belonging to Him. Also and as well its been rendered as meaning.."He brings into existance.." or "He causes to exist".  The Sacred Name appears in the Hebrew Scriptures as four Hebrew letters Yodh,  hey, vav, hey, which is closest represented by the letters YHVH.  According to Jewish tradition it is regarded as 'not to be uttered' in order never to profane it in any way.  In Judaism it is therefore pronounced as 'Adonai', meaning 'Lord'. Notwithstanding this prohibition, the Sacred Name is acknowledged in its usage as PART of the names of many Biblical characters showing that they belong to Him. \n\nIsaiah or Yeshayáhu \n\nJoshua or Yehoshúa\n\nMatthew or Mattanyāhû\n\nJudah or YəhudaYa'akov \n\nNathan or Nattanyahu\n\nJohn or Ye hanan\n\nSo it is easy to see perhaps how Yod or Yood or Yud as the variations may go translated down through the ages to become God. Just as the other languages, dialects and tongues have morphed ever so sligtly  to the English renderings of Hebrew names. However, even though God is Good...the word good isn't nor never has been part of His "NAME". Just wait til ya study on the original Hebrew name for Jesus. That'll flip ya out. God bless, Love in Christ, ~J~ <><
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I am Jewish.\n\nJews do not believe in Hell, in the Christian sense. When you die, your conscience determines whether you will be able to withstand the presence of G-d, or whether YOU will turn away from that light and exist without G-d's presence.\n\nHell and the Devil are purely Christian concepts, based on Greek mythology... and the demonization of all the gods from the pagan cultures that the Romans converted.\n\nIt actually is pretty sad, that Christians feel that one can only truly turn to G-d through fear of punishment. In Judaism, one turns to G-d out of conscience, love, and respect for one's Creator.\n\nIn Judaism, the "evil" in the world that is sourced from natural causes (e.g. death, illness) is a test of personal spiritual strength. G-d is concerned with the growth of one's spirit, not in your current physical situation. The evil in this world originating with mankind is something we brought upon ourselves through our own choices (or the backwash of being near people making such choices).  We are, after all, made in G-d's image... conscious, intelligent, and creative, with the free will to use those gifts as we will. In the end, those making those negative choices, when they die... will their true, deep conscience and awareness of the darkness they brought into others' lives allow them to turn toward the light of G-d?
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Regarding translation and the Word of God.  To say, in general, that I "question" something is not saying that I disagree with it.  I try and question much in translation.  There was a time when I questioned the Word of God.  I have since been convinced of the veracity of God's Word, but I still question translation and try to derive as much as possible from it by reading many different concordance references and multiple versions.  I would say, all in all, general bibles like the NIV and ASV are pretty good translations.  I would definitely get one with a good concordance, explanations, and references, and use them.\n\nOn fundamentalism and the Evangelical movement in America.\n\nThis is a loaded question.  There is 1. A fundamentalist faction.  2. an Evangelical movement and 3. the Moral Majority faction.  These are not one in the same, though members of each may cross over into the other and become affiliated with the other now and again.  NONE OF THESE ARE MILITANT.  Do they feel that America has diverged from a "wholesome" path... absolutely.  Do they feel that they want to be able to let their kids play outside again.... absolutely.  Do they think that God is the answer to the problems with America..... absolutely.  Do they think that their vote can make a difference... they know factually that it can.  But, few support Jerry Falwell for any public office... I believe his call is for evangelism... not politics, though he has a right to voice his opinion when someone asks him.  Is it good for the Republican party?  Well, I guess it would be... considering their "conservative" agenda.  Moreover, I think that is bad for the Democratic party than good for the Republican.  The Democratic Party is now appearing to stand against Christianity and Christians, in general.  Considering there is only one kind of Christian (whether fundamental or liberal) this is a bad progression of events for the Democratic party.  I think that they need to review their stance, or another party needs to creep up.
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Language is an interesting thing.\n\nIt is quite possible to have two very, very similar sounding words with very different meanings.  Consider "heaven"  - would you get especially positive connotations from someone named "Evan" just because they sound the same?\n\nNo, we are not taught that the WORD "Hell" has negative connotations.  It is the CONCEPT, not the sounds.  Sounds are not magic, and where words do have magic it is from the meaning behind them, not the sounds.\n\nAnd if you are going to get hung up on sounds, hello comes not from "hell" but from "hallo", which sounds like Halo, which is a good thing, right?\n\nOf course from where I come from "hell" sounds more like "halo" than "hello"! But then, we're more likely to say "Howdy!" anyway.\n\nBTW, your URL looks like "heave no" to me.  I'd be inclined to think it was a natural anti-emetic, not a religious site.
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:}\nJohn 5:7  For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.\n\nthe asker seems disappointed that G-d is greater than he can understand.\n\nthere are dumber lesser beast which can be understood even by the asker\n\nTo conclude that G-d doesn't exist because a mortal cant understand him is absurd\n\nor that his nature cannot be what he taught it to be because this mortal cannot explain it.\n\n\nHow very human of us.
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i just love all the absolute ignorance that is to be found here on Y!A....\n\nThe sixth letter in the Hebrew aleph-bet is a 'vov,' and it is not pronounced the way a 'double-u' or 'W' is pronounced in English. That was the mistake of the ignorant Christian Biblical scholars of the 1800's and the Christians who didnt know any better. When transliterating the Hebrew characters, they distinguished between a 'vet' and a 'vov' by using a 'b' for a 'bet' and for a 'vet,' and a 'w' for a 'vov,' even though both the 'vet' and the 'vov' are pronounced exactly the same, which is like the 'V' in English.\n\nAnd, by the way, if you didnt understand or follow what i just wrote, PLEASE LEARN HEBREW, especially before you try to study the Bible!
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Yikes!! What a bad spell checker!! Probley shows up as a mis-spelling on my spell check, the British English one that comes with my Mac, AND it shows up when I use the Yahoo! spell checker! Maybe they saw this question and updated the checker??!
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Probably because you call him G-D, call him by his name "Yah" short for Yahweh and he will answer. Calling him G-D could mean any God. He answers to his name, That why he tells it to us over 6,000 times. "whatever you ask in his name he will do"
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I can attest that the KJV does mistranslate a lot of words. My trusty NIV holds up pretty well, I think I've only found two slight errors, but the KJV is definitely shaky at best. And no, the "thee" and "thou" parts of the KJV are not problematic, that is simply the language of the day and it doesn't matter if you translate, "thou art happy" or "you are happy", its the same thing. I love Greek.
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Psalm 83:18 does say Gods name is Jehovah. In the original hebrew manuscripts the tetragramaton appeared almost 7000 times. Over the years many bible translators have removed the name Jehovah because some religions believe that the name is too sacred to pronounce. \n\nCould you really call someone who you don't know their name your best friend or even friend? Jehovah God tells us we can draw close to him and he wants us to use his name. \n\nOn the official web site of Jehovah's Witnesses there is a part that explains more. www.watchtower.org
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ignorance.  \n\nTo take it a step further though, I know many people who say they dont take the Lords name in vain, but they say; gosh, golly, jeez and things like that- those are still variations of the Lords names because those words derived from the words God, and Jesus.  \n\nI wrote an article about this at my website.  Click a link below if you are interested in reading it.  \n\nThe general idea, is that we need not interject words at all that are unnecessary.  Why say anything that isnt to the point anyways?\n\nWhy do we even add the space in a sentance for cursing?  Instead of saying things like "Jeez, its hot!"  Couldnt we just say, "its hot?"
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Itis not atheist  writing God in that way,\n mostly Jews write God in that fashion. In the old testament the name of God was so Holy to the Jews that they left out the vowels when they wrote it in the hebrew. That way no one could speak the name of God. . That's why some people pronounce the name of God Jehovah and some pronounce it JHWH(pronounced Yaweh). I've also heard it pronounced JA. Since the vowels were left out, nobody knows the real pronounciation. The Jews when they write the name God in english they leave out the vowel 'O' and it is written G-d.
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An observation -- you are clearly arguing that Gen 2:17 is contradicted by what follows.   But don't you find it just a bit odd that the writer (or editor), who clearly is presenting God's words as TRUE, would in such a short span contradict his own story and not even recognize it??   Couldn't it be that, as obvious as it seems to you, there is something going on here that you are unaware of?\n\nIn fact, God's threat IS carried out, and swiftly.  The language he uses is found several other times in the Old Testment, esp. of kings pronouncing sentence or warning that the death sentence will most certainly follow if the person disobeys.\n\nExamples: (using ESV; I ordinarily use NIV, but this was closer to hand on my computer!)\n\nGenesis 20:7)\nNow then, return the man's wife, for he is a prophet, so that he will pray for you, and you shall live. But if you do not return her, know that you shall surely die, you, and all who are yours." \n\nExodus 10:28)\nThen Pharaoh said to him, "Get away from me; take care never to see my face again, for on the day you see my face you shall die."\n\nby Saul:  1 Samuel 14:44,   20:31,  22:16\n\nSolomon's warning to Shimei, in which he puts Shimei under oath, on pain of death, not to leave Jerusalem\n\n1Ki 2:37)  \nFor on the day you go out and cross the brook Kidron, know for certain that you shall die. Your blood shall be on your own head." \n\nAnd when Shimei violates the oath\n1Ki 2:42)  \nThe king sent and summoned Shimei and said to him, "Did I not make you swear by the LORD and solemnly warn you, saying, 'Know for certain that on the day you go out and go to any place whatever, you shall die'? And you said to me, 'What you say is good; I will obey.' \n\nThe point of all these is the DEATH SENTENCE will surely follow. (Solomon even speaks of "the day when", but clearly it is not the day that the violation occurs, but when Solomon apprehends him.)\n\nAnd the sentence DID follow in Genesis -- God pronounces sentence in Genesis 3:17-9:\n\nAnd to Adam he said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. \nBy the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return." \n\nNow there IS indeed a delay in the 'final execution' of this sentence, but as God as said, it most surely does happen -- he passes sentence, and Adam DOES die.   In fact, the genealogy of Genesis 5 makes a great point of this, for it ends each entry (with the notable exception of Enoch, who "walked with God") with "and he DIED". \n\nBut there is something more immediate.\n\nYou note the reference to the tree of life, and others comment that if man had eaten from it he would live, which 'proves' what God had said wasn't true.  But God did NOT say the sentence would be automatic --as if the fruit was POISON.  Rather, he would pronounce SENTENCE, that HE would carry out.   His BLOCKING the way to the tree of life is PART of God carrying out thesentence!   Thus man CANNOT eat of it and will, instead, die.\n\nThere's even more to it than that.   Some have suggested that Adam "died spiritually" that day.  There is something to this, but again it fails to see that the DEATH sentence was something GOD was passing and seeing to the carrying out of.   So, what did God do THAT DAY?   He CAST Adam & Eve OUT of the Garden (in which the tree of life was found!),  from the special place of HIS presence...  into a place of hardship and ultimately death. \n\nThe rest of the OT builds on this picture -- that 'real life' is living i
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A really intelligent question indeed!\n\nIt is the other way round. Why the dog is spelled as God backwards?\n\nConsider the properties of a dog. As a pup it would behave as if his whole world rotates around his master. No matter what none can sway the faith of the pup from his so-called master. I have experienced it myself. The pup is more loyal to his master then the mother it was born to.\n\nAs this pup grows up... it learns all the tidbits of life that his master has to teach him. Day by day the loyalty of this pup... now a full-grown dog increases. It now safeguards the house in which lives his master. Every friend of his master becomes his friend and every stranger to his master becomes his foe.\n\nThe dog is the only animal in the whole animal kingdom whose services to his master are unparalleled. No animal in the animal kingdom behaves as faithfully as dogs... come whatever may!\n\nThe faithfulness with which a dog serves his master is even absent in human beings. You trust and the next moment one would betray you. In dealing with dogs such eventualities are extremely rare. It has been found that dogs sometimes betrayed the faith of their master if they were kept in confinement for long or hungry for days.\n\nIn both the cases the master was at fault. If the master takes proper care of his dog... there is no reason why this favorite pet would betray his trust.\n\nBy naming him backwards God has also tried to portray to mankind that if a human being has the kind of faith that a dog has in his master... then every human being can reach the abode of God... the kingdom of God (known as Baikuntha in Hinduism) at the earliest.\n\nDoes it mean that the kind of faith a dog has in his master is necessary for gaining enlightenment and finally salvation. Yes, it is this kind of almost blind faith that leads one directly to the kingdom of God. More here- http://www.godrealized.org/do_animals_have_a_soul.html
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I am one of those people! Sorry; it's such a habit that I'm not aware of it.\nIn Judaism, G-d's Name is so sacred & holy that it is never written out. We don't even say His Name. The terms you may hear others use such as YHVH or Jehovah are highly offensive & never used because they are inaccurate.\nWhen Jewish people pray, we use the term "Ha Shem" which literally means "The Name". We may also use the term "Adonai" which means "L-rd".\nHope this helps!\nAnd, it's wrong for me to write the word "Adonai". For me to write it like Jews do, it needs to be missing a vowel, but you'd then ask what THAT means!!!!!!!!!!! It should say "Ad-nai".
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Hahah.  Hellllllll yeah, there's this one Yahoo! Answers person named anneandjessie.  Man, they're hilarious with their spelling and question asking.  Who the freak spells "does" like "dous" everytime...even when people tell them that "does" is spelled like "d-o-e-s."  Orrrr, they ask "Dous poupl like me?"  UGGGGH, those freaks of nature...