The word "god" should not be capitalized...

Since the Judeo/Christian god is alegedly the only god then we should assume that gender has no meaning. In which case such a god is not a he or a she but an it.

 

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That's quite correct Chris. The only defenition of the christian god is "it" for it has no identity, no body, no physical existence. Is told to us "it" is unadentifiable, unknown, yet the promoters of this god, surely speak as if they had a clue of what "it" is and what "it" wants.

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The only useful purpose in capitalizing "god" is to pre-empt the term.

 

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Good call. I have always written it as god, and that's how it should be.

 

Essays and tutor preference

On the whiteboard the tutor writes "God" but then writes "goddess". I'm just finishing an essay about the possibility of an afterlife, and I expect I'll have red marks each time I've written "god". It annoys me because I class all the deities humans have believed in, and ones we still do, in the same category, without giving preference to the current idea of the single creator. It particularly upsets my sexism radar when "He" is used alongside "God" every time!

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I'll just wait and see if the tutor's preference is evident on the marked paper. As usual it is a matter of adjusting to what each tutor expects of you.

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Thus sayeth the PRINCE.

 

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Thanks for the aggressive welcome Prince, consider my wrist slapped!:bugeye:

 

We believe that God is the "ultimate god" in such a way that it would be meaningless to describe Him as anything other than God, as all others become meaningless compared to Him, with that in mind and the fact that we believe it to be so, we use God as a singular definite word and not a general that can be applied to many.

It's simply a way of saying "THE God". As we believe Him to be the only living God.

Belief is what matters, what we believe to be, is what characterises our usage of the language that describes it.

 

It is simply unfortunate that Christians named their god God.

 

There are numerous primary defintions of words for god

- the absolute truth
- infallible
- one to whom no one is equal or greater
- the possessor of all opulences
- the supreme controller
- beyond the dualities of material existence
- beyond the purview of empiricism

etc etc

You could call god "Harold" if you want - the important issue is whether Harold fulfills the functional criteria for god

 

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But no, welcome to the forums. Just please do not bring up threads that ended months (or worse: years) ago.

It is my pet peeve and generally annoys us all. As most conversations that are six months ago are truly dead and buried.

Anyway, on topic of the the discussion:

God is both a proper and a common noun in the English language. As a proper name, it refers to the Christian deity as so named in the English language (as opposed to in Latin, Greek, or Hebrew) and as a common noun it is a word for a male deity.

 

:bugeye: Hmmmmmmm range of our senses? Well Ive never felt led to interpret gravity, time, space, friction....etc etc etc Is energy a generic term..I guess by this definition it would be but it can encompass many different forms we tend to give specific names to...names we made up, usually after the guy who quantified it. Im not a physics major so someone jump in here and run with this ball....you know where it's going.