I reckon God needs a new name

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drumbeat

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There is a lot of confusion when people talk of God in this forum.

Do they mean the Christian God?
Do they mean a generic god?

If you say Allah, we know you're on about a Islamic representation of a higher being, but the Christian one is simply called God.

Can we start referring to God as something different such as Fred or Mr Jones, and leave the word god as a generic term?
 
Why did you capitalise "god" in one sentence and not the other?
Doesn't that indicate something? ;)
 
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Yes, I know how to distinguish them.
But you can never be sure that someone else does when you read their posts. Certain people here always write 'God' but then say they don't believe in Christianity.

Also, I can never be sure that someone reading my post will understand the difference between God and god.

It isn't supposed to be a serious thread though. ;)
 
I have absolutely no f'ing idea what most of the theists in this forum really believe, and very few of them seem willing to elaborate much. To be honest I think that being nonspecific suits them because it gives them wriggle room (it's less likely that they'll get nailed down on something).
 
Rav said:
I have absolutely no f'ing idea what most of the theists in this forum really believe, and very few of them seem willing to elaborate much. To be honest I think that being nonspecific suits them because it gives them wriggle room (it's less likely that they'll get nailed down on something).
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Well, at least He is who is said to have created everything else. He must then be a being, for a God-who-is-not-a person could just be the vacuum fluctuations or something like that, a Ground Of Determination (G.O.D.), which is not a thinking, planning Being.

Such a system of Mind could not be first, preceding its constituents, and so that is the end of that. We even took a heck of a long time to form. Any being or alien that forms along the way cannot be God.
 
drumbeat said:
There is a lot of confusion when people talk of God in this forum.

Do they mean the Christian God?
Do they mean a generic god?

If you say Allah, we know you're on about a Islamic representation of a higher being, but the Christian one is simply called God.

Can we start referring to God as something different such as Fred or Mr Jones, and leave the word god as a generic term?
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Me thinks you and your ilk are playing 'silly beggars'.

Here is the standard definition (with u/case G);

1. the one Supreme Being, the creator and ruler of the universe.

Hope that clears stuff up. :)

jan.
 
God has a new name . It is Spidergoat . We elected Him just before he was banned for his Fuck you poem . He is the supreme being . I listen to what He says too
 
drumbeat said:
There is a lot of confusion when people talk of God in this forum.

Do they mean the Christian God?
Do they mean a generic god?

If you say Allah, we know you're on about a Islamic representation of a higher being, but the Christian one is simply called God.

Can we start referring to God as something different such as Fred or Mr Jones, and leave the word god as a generic term?
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God's name in the original Hebrew bible is YHWH
 
It's like Volvo bringing out a new model named the Car.

"I've bought a new car"
"What model?"
"I just said......a car"
"oh."
 
drumbeat said:
Can we start referring to God as something different such as Fred or Mr Jones, and leave the word god as a generic term?
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I've always thought Bob was as good as anything else.
Preferably the way Rowan Atkinson says it. ;)
 
Jan Ardena said:
Me thinks you and your ilk are playing 'silly beggars'.

Here is the standard definition (with u/case G);

1. the one Supreme Being, the creator and ruler of the universe.

Hope that clears stuff up. :)

jan.
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Hey, you forgot a bit..

God
–noun
1. the one Supreme Being, the creator and ruler of the universe.
2. the Supreme Being considered with reference to a particular attribute: the God of islam.


:D
 
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