To: muawiyah
""God" is an Anglo-Saxon word better applied to Thor than to the "God of Abraham"." What are you on anyway? God was the creater of the Universe, centuries before the Anglo/Saxon language came into being.
There is an old Confutze saying that you should take to heart: It is better to keep one's mouth closed and be thought a fool, than to open it.......and remove all doubt.
To: Iam1ru1-2
We are speaking of a word spelled "G" "O" "D", not G-D. Thor was a god, for example.
106 posted on
06/11/2005 4:09:32 PM PDT by
muawiyah
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To: Iam1ru1-2
God is not etymologically related to good. It probably came from an Indo-European *ghut-. This may be related to Sanskrit havate and Old Church Slavonic zovetu, both meaning 'call,' and if so the underlying etymological meaning of god would be 'that which is invoked.' The English word's immediate ancestor was prehistoric Germanic *guth-,which also produced German gott, Dutch god, and Swedish and Danish gud (dictionary of word origins).
114 posted on
06/11/2005 4:16:09 PM PDT by
WVNan
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