tezz

I was pondering the other day... the title 'god', either cap G or lower case is still just a title... so does the christian, cap G, god actually have a 'proper' name, like, say, Bob...

Maybe time for a rest

Weltall

Yes but nobody remembers how to pronounce it.

Eldarion Lathria

Somebody will insist on spelling it B-b.

It's not G-d, it's D-g.

Eldarion Lathria

tezz

Ah but the good, nay, mysterious thing about Bob is that it's the same abbreviated backwards... weird a?

B-b... or b-B

Dryhad

It's the same backwards even if it's not abbreviated. The technical term is palindrome.

Anyway, God's name transliterates from Hebrew as YHWH. There's another author (there are four separate authors of the first five books, each tells the story a little differently) who refers to him as Elohim, but the former name is more commonly used. From it we get "Yahweh", "Jehovah" and such.

tezz

Just to show my atheistically brought up ignorance of christianity... Why is 'YHWH' all capitalised? And why is it that christianities god is referred to as cap 'G' god and not YHWH. After all, it IS just one god out of soooo many...

tezz

I knew that! :Cheeky:

Dryhad

Ha! It's hardly unique to atheists. I was raised a christian and I didn't find out until I became an agnostic.

No idea. I believe it associates with those parts in the bible where it says "LORD" in caps, but I'm not certain.

Probably because they don't know. See the first bit.

Worldtraveller

I dunno about all that, but 'Bob the god' would make a great IIDB username.

Cheers,
Lane

delabrooke

It's just the language, how they wrote it. They still pronounced it as "Yahweh" but didn't "officially" have any vowels in their language.

Somebody obviously thought sounded cool. Whatever!