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Re: who is God?


Message written by

Craig
April 29, 2012 at 10:17:12:

In Reply to
who is God?
posted by
kim marine
April 25, 2012 at 09:56:59:

 
Hi Kim,

The language is just a human invention, created by humans to allow us to communicate on the physical plane. If we didn't have language, we would be more intuitive and attuned to each other. Language also limits our perspective and thinking. It makes communication easier, but is itself a limiting influence in our lives.

In the earliest forms of English, prior to the fifteenth century, capitalization and punctuation were random, with no rules, and some documents had no punctuation at all. Beginning with printing in the fifteenth century, some standards began to enter the language. By the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, these standards were becoming rules. By the nineteenth century, they had become pretty well established.

Many words were capitalized in the earlier documents. English, which is derived in large part from German, carried the tradition of capitalizing all nouns, which was characteristic of German. That fell off into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Today, the trend is to capitalize as few words as possible.

In the eighteenth century, this is a sentence from the constitution of the United States: "The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States." All of the words except the first word of the sentence and the proper nouns "Congress" and "United States" would not be capitalized today.

Capitalizing the word "God" when referring to the Judeo-Christian God was retained because of the religious sentiment connected to it, and because names of real people or beings are capitalized. The term for other people's gods was reduced to lowercase because the name didn't stand for something the Judeo-Christian English speaking people believed to be real. They were myths.

It's just that the language, which is manmade, reflects the culture, and English is primarily a Judeo-Christian culture, so the Judeo-Christian God is treated as being real, thereby justifying capitalizing the name just as we capitalize Craig or Kim.

I would say that we are all God, with a capial "G" and no "s."

Love and peace, Craig


 



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