What is the difference between "God" and "The Lord?"
Thank you.
2006-12-21 06:47:34 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
When do you use each term?
2006-12-27 07:14:19 · update #1
When do you use each term?
2006-12-27 07:14:35 · update #2
God is a description or title of the supreme being.
"The Lord" is a description of our relationship with God. Someone who has authority over us and at the same time fulfills our needs.
"The Lord" is also substituted for the Hebrew name of God, "YHWH," which in Judaism is not to be read aloud. "YHWH" has been translated as "Jehovah" and "Yahweh."
With love in Christ.
2006-12-25 17:17:49 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A "lord" is one who has authority. Think of the "House of Lords" in the British parlement, names like "Lord Stanley" or the term, "the Lord of the Manor".
"The Lord" is used in English were the Hebrew, Aramaic or Greek indicates this kind of title.
"The LORD" (lord all in caps) is used where the Holy name of God (called the Tetragramaton, which means "the four letters") appears in the Hebrew text. This is done out of respect for Jewish sensibilities. The God's personal name is considered too holy to be uttered, so they always substitute the Hebrew word for "lord" when they encounter it in the Hebrew text. Most modern Christian don't have this same veneration for the name. Just so you know, it's YHWH, which is often rendered as Yahweh or Jehovah in English.
God is the Deity.
Therefore God is LORD (YHWH) and is also the Lord, in that He has authority over everything.
Does that answer your question?
2006-12-21 15:00:22 · answer #2 · answered by Elise K 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In general no difference. Maybe name and title.
God H430 ×××××
'eÌloÌhiÌym el-o-heem'
Plural of H433; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative: - angels, X exceeding, God (gods) (-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.
Lord H3068 ××××
yehoÌvaÌh yeh-ho-vaw'
From H1961; (the) self Existent or eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God: - Jehovah, the Lord. Compare H3050, H3069.
2006-12-21 14:50:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A question of tradition. In the Hebrew, "El" (plural, "Elohim") is the generic name of God, and so it's rendered "God" in English. The particular name of God, "YHWH" was considered so sacred that it was not to be pronounced. So cantors always substituted, "the Lord". Translators who respected the tradition rendered "YHWH" as "the Lord" (Usually in small capital letters to indicate the substitution). That's why you sometimes get odd verses like, "The Lord, the Lord..." (It's really "YHWH, the Lord, ...")
In some languages, the divine name is rendered "JHVH". When Christians started translating from the Hebrew, they weren't aware that Jews marked up the consonants of the divine name with the vowels of "Adonai" ("Lord"), so they tried to pronounce it "Jahovah". That's where that name comes from. In Hebrew, it's nonsense.
2006-12-21 15:22:51 · answer #4 · answered by skepsis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God and The Lord are synonyms
2006-12-21 14:50:01 · answer #5 · answered by F17RH4N 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is the supreme Spirit, Creator, Runner of the entire universe, God the Father
LORD - Is, in your life is he your Master, do you serve him, can you call upon as you LORD?
Hope it helps
2006-12-21 14:50:32 · answer #6 · answered by readthekjv1611@sbcglobal.net 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God just exists. The Lord is who you follow and obey.
2006-12-21 14:49:18 · answer #7 · answered by mikearion 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lord=Master..as you a servant
God =God
2006-12-21 14:49:34 · answer #8 · answered by Royal Racer Hell=Grave © 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is not much difference.
Both are titles.
God means 'mighty one'.
Lord means 'sir' or 'master'.
2006-12-21 14:54:30 · answer #9 · answered by Uncle Thesis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
same
2006-12-21 14:49:12 · answer #10 · answered by idahomike2 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋