2006-06-09 04:18:31 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God doesnt speak english ? ??
2006-06-09 04:23:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I think that anyone over the age of seven who ever heard of Jesus would have a pretty good idea where he was meant to have come from. Like the xmas story is pretty well known -unless you think Bethlehem NJ was the original. You obviously think that a western xian might find this somehow shocking, or it proves some point which you haven't made yet. If so you know very little about your target audience.
If xianity came from Mars it wouldn't be any less or more valid. So what is your point?
Interestingly, in the original text of Genesis the phrase used is "Elohim" or "the gods" created the universe, indicating a polytheistic religion, based on the Egyptian religion which the Israelites had lived under. Did you know that "Amen" is the invocation of the Egyptian god Amun?!
2006-06-09 04:59:30 · answer #2 · answered by Slippery_Jim 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is very likely that the word God is derived from the Persian word for divine father - Khuda - which is still used in Persia, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Northern India. Khuda is derived from an older word for the supreme being in Sanksrit and other ancient Indo-European languages - Hud (pronounced hoodh) -which means the one invoked during a sacrifice. The hebrew or biblical name of God is Jahweh or Yaweh - later distorted to be come Jehovah by protestants.
It appears that the first reference to God or Gods in the English St.James Bible is deregatory in referring to the molten statues that the pagans worshipped as in "Gheu" or molten metal - think "ye gheuds" in a monty python accent.
Basically, never has the meaning of a word or its various forms caused as many problems or as many divisions or murders as God has. So find your own transcendental truth and call it God if you really must!
2006-06-09 04:31:58 · answer #3 · answered by Raja C 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe most of the Christians know the middle east origin. I also think that many of them know that God is not a name but an address such as Lord, Savior, Redeemer, Creator, etc. His name was given to Moses in Sinai: "I Am".
2006-06-09 04:29:21 · answer #4 · answered by PabloSolutin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is Mulsims attempt to say Gods name is Allah because it is an Arab word.
The point is silly at best. The word "God" changes in ever language. And doesnt prove Islam, Christianity, or anything based off what "Gods" name is.
The earliest language: newsflash isnt arab.
Go study history and the history of the word "God".
Based on your logic, then the Pagan moon god Alilah is God too.
2006-06-09 04:45:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The word god continues Old English god (guþ, gudis in Gothic, gud in modern Scandinavian, God in Dutch, and Gott in modern German), from Proto-Germanic *ÈuÄan. The original meaning and etymology of the Germanic word god has been hotly disputed, though most agree to a reconstructed Proto-Indo-European form *ǵhu-tó-m, which is the neuter passive perfect participle of the root *ǵhau-, *ǵhau̯Ç-, which meant "to call, to invoke".
A significant number of scholars have connected this root with the names of three related Germanic tribes: the Geats, the Goths and the Gutar. These names may be derived from an eponymous chieftain Gaut, who was subsequently deified. He also sometimes appears in early Medieval sagas as a name of Odin or one of his descendants, a former king of the Geats (Gaut(i)), an ancestor of the Gutar (Guti), of the Goths (Gothus) and of the royal line of Wessex (Geats) and as a previous hero of the Goths (Gapt). The Lombardic form of Odin, Godan, may derive from cognate Proto-Germanic *ÈuÄánaz.
The name God was used to represent Greek Theos, Latin Deus in Bible translations, first in the Gothic translation of the New Testament by Ulfilas. For the etymology of deus, see *dyeus. Greek theos is probably unrelated, and of uncertain origin. De Saussure tentatively connected Baltic and Germanic words for "spook," ultimately cognate with Latin fumus "smoke." See El (god) and YHWH for discussions of the Hebrew names for God.
2006-06-09 04:57:36 · answer #6 · answered by Greg 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is just a title, such as "Lord" "King" "President". His real name is found in
Psalms 83:18 "That people may know that you, whose name is Jehovah, You alone are the Most High over all the earth."
2006-06-09 04:43:57 · answer #7 · answered by AnGeL 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To God the name nor the spelling is only a human thing. Before man there was God and he did not demand worship.
2006-06-09 04:26:03 · answer #8 · answered by einstein 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You would have to pretty stupid to not realize the temple of Jerusalem is in the middle east and not new york or london. You would also have to be pretty stupid to not realize that the Bible wasnt written in English.
2006-06-09 04:22:39 · answer #9 · answered by Boba Phatt 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you really think God cares what you call Him as long as you know that He, His Son, and His Holy Spirit are the one true God?
This I believe;
http://homelessheart.com/testimony.htm
2006-06-09 04:21:29 · answer #10 · answered by Don S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe there is the odd person who will answer this and not know any better, but for the most part, yeah....we know that. Actually he has many names.
2006-06-09 04:24:48 · answer #11 · answered by morgan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋