christians, why do you insist that your god's name is spelt with a capital G?

Question

unless he has changed his name by deed poll or statutory declaration i don't think it's legally binding.

Answer 1

god is not a proper noun.

Answer 2

God's name isn't god. That's his title. God's name is YHWH, or Jehovah, or maybe Jesus Christ if you're leaning that way. It isn't lord either since that's a title too.

As far as the capitalization goes, we don't capitalize people's titles most of the time.

I will capitalize his proper name, I will never capitalize god.



@Happy Gramps

God didn't write the scriptures. The ones you can read were translated into English since that wasn't the original language they were written in. The translators capitalized the words god and lord.

Answer 3

Good point Andrew, God is a name for something whether I believe in him or not, which I don't incidentally, I capitalise God as it is a proper noun, as is Zeus (as Andrew said) or Buddha, or Ganesh.



AFTERTHOUGHT: Titles are proper nouns as well. Lord, Lady, King Henry VIII, Sir, Mr, Mrs, Miss. All capitalised. To the original poster; Sir, you are a true idiot who seems to have a poor (at best) grasp of our great language as well as being somebody who enjoys attempting to cause trouble. Look at your responses, the majority of people think your an idiot and I bet some of those are Atheists.

Answer 4

Grammatically, it's a title, of sorts. "Vishnu" is capitalized .. as are most others.



It's not like our deity has another moniker.



Trust me, your usage of the lower-case "g" causes me no sleepless nights. You just look like an idiot who doesn't understand rules of grammar.



Now, if you said, "Christians, why does your god do such and such?", you would get no quarrel from me. However, if you said "Christians, why does god do such and such?", then you just look like an idiot.



Not only that, but you look like a poser idiot who is trying to look hip and cool by attempting to offend a specific group of people, but, in reality, comes across as someone not all that intelligent.

Answer 5

God is to general of a name...I use his Personal Name > Yahweh...which in Greek means "I am who i am"....as was spoken to Moses when he was told to lead the Israeliets out of Eygypt.

Answer 6

god's name is spelt with a capital G? You also write your name in the same manner.





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Answer 7

That is how He spells His name in Scripture; also, it's to differentiate from the many gods ( lower case g ) that are nothing but false idols and lead to nowhere and nothing

Answer 8

hello,

i pretty much agree with happy gramps that He is the one-true God .

Answer 9

I capitalize Zeus, and I don't believe in him.

Answer 10

because they think god is spam

Answer 11

Why not?

Answer 12

Why do you insist that we don't?