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Naming your god vaguely as "God" is the fault of the authors of the Bible. Also, is it The Bible, the Bible, or the bible? Stop applying your religious convicti

Naming your god vaguely as "God" is the fault of the authors of the Bible. Also, is it The Bible, the Bible, or the bible? Stop applying your religious conviction to my method of dictation. Name your god something more namelike. Like Steve. Then I'll know to capitalize it. If I named my kid "Person", the fault would be on me when people keep writing "person" to address him.

teilo 8y ago
There are no capital letters in Hebrew, and when the NT was written, it was written in all caps, or rather, uncials. Lower case came much later with the miniscules, and even when it did, the name of God was not capitalized, nor were any other names.
PhasmaFelis 8y ago
> If I named my kid "Person", the fault would be on me when people keep writing "person" to address him. That would be silly of you, but it would still be obvious bad grammar. Proper names get capitalized in English. It's pretty simple.
- kempbellt 8y ago
  Bad grammar, sure. I'd argue against it being "obvious" bad grammar. In most use cases, the word person is not meant to be capitalized.
  - PhasmaFelis 8y ago
    You know whether you're writing a proper name or not. No one has trouble capitalizing Peg or Cat or Amber when they're people's names.
amelius 8y ago
> Like Steve. A more likely name would be 张伟, because most people are Chinese, after all.
- kempbellt 8y ago
  张伟 -> Zhang Wei. Any shared roots with Yahweh? Or am I butchering etymology here?
garettmd 8y ago
Well, to be fair, it wasn't the authors of the Bible. AFAIK, the word for God in ancient Hebrew doesn't directly translate to God in English. I think in the original language God's name is a more specific name than it is in English (YHWH). From Wikipedia on "Names of God in Judaism": The name of God most often used in the Hebrew Bible is the Tetragrammaton (YHWH יהוה‬). It is frequently anglicized as Jehovah and Yahweh and written in most English editions of the Bible as "the Lord" owing to the Jewish tradition increasingly viewing the divine name as too sacred to be uttered. It was thus replaced vocally in the synagogue ritual by the Hebrew word Adonai (“My Lords”), which was translated as Kyrios (“Lord”) in the Septuagint, the Greek version of the Hebrew scriptures.[1]

teilo 8y ago

There are no capital letters in Hebrew, and when the NT was written, it was written in all caps, or rather, uncials. Lower case came much later with the miniscules, and even when it did, the name of God was not capitalized, nor were any other names.

PhasmaFelis 8y ago

> If I named my kid "Person", the fault would be on me when people keep writing "person" to address him. That would be silly of you, but it would still be obvious bad grammar. Proper names get capitalized in English. It's pretty simple.

kempbellt 8y ago
Bad grammar, sure. I'd argue against it being "obvious" bad grammar. In most use cases, the word person is not meant to be capitalized.
- PhasmaFelis 8y ago
  You know whether you're writing a proper name or not. No one has trouble capitalizing Peg or Cat or Amber when they're people's names.

amelius 8y ago

> Like Steve. A more likely name would be 张伟, because most people are Chinese, after all.

kempbellt 8y ago
张伟 -> Zhang Wei. Any shared roots with Yahweh? Or am I butchering etymology here?

garettmd 8y ago

Well, to be fair, it wasn't the authors of the Bible. AFAIK, the word for God in ancient Hebrew doesn't directly translate to God in English. I think in the original language God's name is a more specific name than it is in English (YHWH). From Wikipedia on "Names of God in Judaism": The name of God most often used in the Hebrew Bible is the Tetragrammaton (YHWH יהוה‬). It is frequently anglicized as Jehovah and Yahweh and written in most English editions of the Bible as "the Lord" owing to the Jewish tradition increasingly viewing the divine name as too sacred to be uttered. It was thus replaced vocally in the synagogue ritual by the Hebrew word Adonai (“My Lords”), which was translated as Kyrios (“Lord”) in the Septuagint, the Greek version of the Hebrew scriptures.[1]