2007-01-27 11:44:51 · 11 answers · asked by shootthebreeze1006 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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Etymology: Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old High German got...from Goth guth
2007-01-27 11:48:28 · answer #1 · answered by DAVID C 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Names of the One True God come from His Revelation through His Divine Messengers. The word God is only a translation into English. We can find His Names in the Holy Books of Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Hinduism...which are now available on the Internet.
2007-01-27 21:01:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Psalms 83:18 Isaiah 43:10, 11
2007-01-27 19:50:57 · answer #3 · answered by Here I Am 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Taken from search site below because it used text sources and was researched by the author:
GOD - The English word God is identical with the Anglo-Saxon word for “good,” and therefore it is believed that the name God refers to the divine goodness. (See Oehler's Theol. of Old Test.; Strong's and Young's concordances.) (From New Unger's Bible Dictionary) (Originally published by Moody Press of Chicago, Illinois. Copyright (C) 1988.)
Comment: There is only one True God and He is Good, and only God is good, so I tend to go by this explanation. However there are differing sources:
Further information on the source of our word for ‘God’ is listed below:
Word origin: God - Our word god goes back via Germanic to Indo-European, in which a corresponding ancestor form meant “invoked one.” The word’s only surviving non-Germanic relative is Sanskrit hu, invoke the gods, a form which appears in the Rig Veda, most ancient of Hindu scriptures: puru-hutas, “much invoked,” epithet of the rain-and-thunder god Indra. (From READER’S DIGEST, Family Word Finder, page 351) (Originally published by The Reader’s Digest Association, Inc., Pleasantville New York, Montreal; Copyright (C) 1975)
The English word for “God” has become a source of confusion for Christians since at least the Anglo-Saxon era. Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary says that the origin of the word ‘god’ comes from a Germanic word ‘gad,’ pronounced as “gohdt.”
2007-01-27 20:28:23 · answer #4 · answered by QueryJ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hate to be the one to tell you this but, "God" is not a name. It's a word meaning a being of supernatural powers or attributes, believed in and worshiped by a people, especially a male deity thought to control some part of nature or reality.
Each God has their own name. In the case of the one in the bible, it'd be YHVH. (I suspect that's the one you're thinking of.)
2007-01-27 19:58:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is not a name it is a title.
2007-01-27 19:48:28 · answer #6 · answered by Tim 47 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
God named himself. In the beginning there was the word, and the word was God.
2007-01-27 19:49:29 · answer #7 · answered by Spann M 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The same person that names you Man
2007-01-27 19:53:45 · answer #8 · answered by Eyota Xin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is just a title. It means "Mighty one".
2007-01-27 19:55:50 · answer #9 · answered by Erica R 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I really don't know.
2007-01-27 19:48:02 · answer #10 · answered by Cold Fart 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋