I don't get why when some people are talking about God they only write G-D or G--??
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This is a good question and one which is often not understood correctly.\n\nSome people are not so ignorant as others.  Some people are not so self-righteous.  In Hebrew tradition, the name of Divinity is never to be spoken in a mundane manner.\n\nYHWH was mentioned by letters or using another word like Elohim, so as to not speak the Name of Divinity.  The word G-d is often used as an English translation and therefore, for some people, too holy to speak or write in anything except pray or praise.\n\n"In vain" means "in an irreverent or disrespectful manner."\nOther words, like Divinity, get the point across without disrespect or dishonor.  It is not just Hebrews who do this.
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It is not the words, or their source, that matter but their understanding by the person using them.  Today you have people quoting words of peace and brotherly love while inciting the followers to a "holy" war, for example. The books of the Bible suppose to teach us the golden rule--love your neighbour like yourself--but some people react to the Bible's words as if they were drinking whiskey--they get violent and abusive.
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I know. You never hear, "Oh, my Buddha" \nor\n"Mohammed d@mn you".\nI suspect people instinctively know that G-d is real, & so they blaspheme Him to offend either Him or those who are trying to please Him.
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What's with the G_D stuff?? Are we so whipped by political correctness that we can't even say or spell "God" anymore??
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People do not use God's Word to back up their points because it would be impossible. Too often their human thoughts are diametrically opposed to God's thoughts.\n\n(2 Timothy 4:3,4) For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own likings, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander into myths.
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cause it's the best way to celebrate God! God is everywhere, and so many descriptions of God remind us this fact, all the time!\nwhy you care so much about what kind of worship other peoples do?
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Most who spell it with a Hyphen "-" are Jewish.  It is a tradition from the Old Testament where God warned them not to take His name in vain, so they do not pronounce the name of God to avoid the misuse of it.
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God is capitalized. That sounds a little narrow  minded
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You're confusing two different words. The offensive word has 2 "g"s.
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Valid point.  At the very best, if proven, any argument for a deity can prove "god".  I use a lower case "g" on purpose.\n\nAll the arguments for god (which, by the way, were derived by Aquinas from the pagan greeks) at best, only prove a deist creator.  None spell out a specific "G"od, much less Yahweh.\n\nThis is all despite the fact that centuries of rational thought have exposed the glaring holes in these arguments.  Nevertheless, as I said, even if they WERE rational arguments, the only "prove" deism, nothing more.\n\nSo we arrive at the same standpoint most people are anyway...is the God Yahweh?  Jesus?  Buddhah?  Allah? Native American Corn God?  Arguments for ID and a creator prove nothing about religion.\n\nJefferson and Paine were both strong deists, who bought every argument these theists could throw down about the existance of God (though great men both, not their strongest positions, in my opinion.)  However, both men abhorred Christianity and theism in general.\n\nArguments for "g"od get you absolutely nothing, and leave people exactly where they were before, choosing their own deity.\n\nThat is why the bible has nothing to do with proving "g"od.
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That's just what they believe...don't make fun of other peoples culture and their beliefs. You wouldn't like it if they talked about our Holy Bible. Think about it....they probably thinks its crazy that we believe in only one God.
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G-d cannot have human attributes, and any mention of human attributes to desribe G-d is understood as a metaphor.  We Jews do not believe that G-d can have a son! \nThat just doesn't make any sense to us.
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"God" didn't step out of the clouds, sit down with some vellum and quill and write that, sorry. Some regular ol' man who claimed "God" spoke to him did.\n\nWhen this happens nowadays, the person in question is usually placed under psychiatric care.
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This is purely my speculation but I'll mention it, as hopefully it'll get your mind working.\n\nIt is natural for humans to speak and to formulate words. We do this as we have minds that think abstractly. No other animal as far as we know can hold up one item and know that it represents something else. Yet think what the symbolism of a cross means to a Christian, or a crescent to a Muslim. We use words as symbols. The letters G, D, and O are meaningless by themselves and the word God should be meaningless, it's just three symbols written one after the other. But they aren't are they? Of course if you see Dieu (and you don't understand French) the meaning is lost and it is just a squiggle.\n\nThe reason why we use words is to try and describe our feelings to one another. Look at the words we've both used in this exchange and you'll see that each of us was trying to create a 'mental picture' to help the other understand our 'train of thought'
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'Elohim' means 'powers,' and is used in the Bible to refer to Gd because Gd is the Ultimate Power. It is interesting to note that in Hebrew, the verb and the subject must agree in gender and number. However, the verb with Elohim, when referring to Gd and not to just powers, is in the singular, and does not recognize the word Elohim as a plural.\n\nThe word, 'adonai,' means 'my master,' or 'my lord' as in the lords and ladies of old England. It is a word read or said instead of the Tetragrammaton, the four-letter name for Gd whose vowels we dont know, as they were only pronounced by the High Priest, in the Holy of Holies in the Temple, when he was alone, once a year, on Yom Kippur.\n\nJehovah is simply a misunderstanding of the pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton mentioned above. First, Hebrew has no j-as-in-joe sound. The Christian German Biblical 'Scholars' of the 1800's transliterated this using their 'j' pronounced as a 'y' sound. When English speakers saw this, they mispronounced the Hebrew as a j-as-in-joe sound. \n\nWhy 3 names for the same Gd? Because Gd did not reveal Himself with the Tetragrammaton as His name until later in the History of the Jews, and so, until then, the Jews called Him something else. There is a Jewish tradition that the name Gd uses at any particular time reveals the character trait He was expressing at that time. So, for example, if the text uses Elohim, like at the story of Noah, it was His sense of justice or mercy that was acting, justice for the evil people of the earth, mercy for Noah and his family and the future generations of human and animal life.
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mis translation and humans touch have change the meaning of God words.\n\nin the verse it has proved that he did not call his dad. but his God! means that he is a creation from God who calling his God. \n\njesus said : "...Listen O Israel: the lord our God is only one God"\n\n"why do you call me good? and there is no good but God"\n\nall this show you evidence that Jesus has seperated himself from what's called trinity or son of God. but people are too stubborn to change what they used to believe from childhood. imagine you believe in something since ur childhood and then someone came to you to correct what you have misunderstood. you will be very stubborn and wouldn't change your mind. \n\nand the word Son in the Bible dosen't really mean Son. and the words of God has been changed by people hands. \n\nJesus is just a creation just like Adam who came without father or mother. it's just God says Be! and it will Be!
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That's a good question. I never have heard people speak bad about him but I do hear his name blurted out in vein on TV ,radio, almost like its nothing. I think its because the worlds standards and God's standards are so far apart that people loose their faith,fear, and respect for the creator of all things.The sad part is that he knows and loves all of us even those who don't believe in his name.