Why the confusion?

[Tcg]

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Here are the different English spellings I've seen for the title God:

- God

- GOD

- god

- G-d

Here are some of the proposals for the name of Biblegod:

- Yahweh

- Jehovah

- Yashua

- YHWH

We can turn to the Bible for help but in the first two chapters of Genesis we find two options:

- Elohim

- Yahweh Elohim

The Bible of course uses many other names for its God. One site I found listed 16. Once we look beyond Judaism and Christianity, we find an absurd number of gods and titles/names for them.

I've seen the claim that atheists are confused about the meaning of "God." I'd suggest the confusion doesn't lie with atheists but rather theists.

Why is there so much confusion?


Tcg

[JoeyKnothead]

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Here are the different English spellings I've seen for the title God:

- God

- GOD

- god

- G-d

Here are some of the proposals for the name of Biblegod:

- Yahweh

- Jehovah

- Yashua

- YHWH

We can turn to the Bible for help but in the first two chapters of Genesis we find two options:

- Elohim

- Yahweh Elohim

The Bible of course uses many other names for its God. One site I found listed 16. Once we look beyond Judaism and Christianity, we find an absurd number of gods and titles/names for them.

I've seen the claim that atheists are confused about the meaning of "God." I'd suggest the confusion doesn't lie with atheists but rather theists.

Why is there so much confusion?


Tcg

Heck, what we round here call a cathead, some folks call a biscuit. And there's some folks who call a cookie a biscuit.

Different strokes for different size oars, I reckon.

[Wootah]

[Replying to Tcg in post #1]

Confusion is quite subjective.

[JehovahsWitness]

QUESTION

...confused about the meaning of "God." ... Why is there so much confusion?

MY ANSWER TO THE QUESTION: Possibly people are confused about the meaning of God because they have do not take note to what it says in dictionaries.




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[Miles]

QUESTION

...confused about the meaning of "God." ... Why is there so much confusion?

MY ANSWER TO THE QUESTION: Possibly people are confused about the meaning of God because they have do not take note to what it says in dictionaries.

Ah, so now it's contemporary dictionaries we must turn to so as to understand scripture. How novel, this J. W. thinking.


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[tam]

Peace to you,

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Here are the different English spellings I've seen for the title God:

- God

- GOD

- god

- G-d

- Mom

- Mum

- mama

- Ma

- Mother

(I'm not comparing a mom to God; just making a point with one of the titles that I know and hold)

Here are some of the proposals for the name of Biblegod:

- Yahweh

- Jehovah

- Yashua

- YHWH

There is confusion here for a few reasons I suppose: because the name of God - in what is written - has no vowels, and because Israel made it a practice not to same the name of God, and so the pronunciation got 'lost'. There is confusion because some people claim on their own authority what is or is not 'acceptable', and people listen to them. There is confusion because many/most people walk by sight, rather than by faith... and we don't have the full name written down for people to see, except "YHWH" (I don't think there is confusion about that, only about how to fill it in).

Although, we do actually have the name of God in what is written for anyone to see:

Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him. Psalm 68:4

This is also shown in the praise: Hallelu JAH...

We can turn to the Bible for help but in the first two chapters of Genesis we find two options:

- Elohim

- Yahweh Elohim

The first is a title/description for the word 'god'. See here:

https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon ... v/wlc/0-1/

The second is the name of God written along with the title/description.

The Bible of course uses many other names for its God. One site I found listed 16.

I assume you are referring to descriptions/titles, so in keeping with the mom analogy:

First aid giver

Short order cook

Housekeeper

Wife

nurturer

boo-boo kisser

taxi driver

birthday party planner

lecturer

woman



Peace again to you!

(edited to add in a link for supporting evidence)

[JoeyKnothead]

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Although, we do actually have the name of God in what is written for anyone to see:

Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him. Psalm 68:4

This is also shown in the praise: Hallelu JAH...

Now I get it...

Thanks!

[tam]

Peace to you!

[Replying to JoeyKnothead in post #7]

Someone asked me once if I was a Rastafarian because of that (though the pronunciation is with the 'y' sound - yah - instead of the English 'j' sound). I didn't understand why that person was asking me if I was a Rastafarian until they linked to that song. I also hadn't realized that's what he was singing about.

[Difflugia]

Thanks!

I can't tell if you're being serious or not. In case you're being ironic, Bob Marley sang this song as a genuine Rastafarian religious spiritual. Jah live! is Marley's faithful testimony to the living incarnation of Jah, Haile Selassie, sung to affirm Marley's belief that reports of Selassie's death were false.

[tam]

Peace to you,

Thanks!

I can't tell if you're being serious or not. In case you're being ironic, Bob Marley sang this song as a genuine Rastafarian religious spiritual. Jah live! is Marley's faithful testimony to the living incarnation of Jah, Haile Selassie, sung to affirm Marley's belief that reports of Selassie's death were false.

I didn't know that, thank you.