To: Chris Talk
ARE PEOPLE AFRAID OF OFFENDING BY SPELLING GOD !!!!! Just wondering why all of the dashes. I've never come across that in the Bible, nor have I ever thought GOD approved of XMAS either????
To: Hand em their arse
It is a Jewish originated attempt to show the total Otherness of G-d, and to make us go out of our way to type any reference to him, and not just slur over him like we would any common noun.
The true Name of God, YHWH, is just called Ha-Shem, the Name. Not pronounced except as necessary for scholarship until Messianic times.
40 posted on
02/15/2004 3:59:10 PM PST by
Chris Talk
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To: Hand em their arse
There are some who believer writing "God" on anything that can be destroyed risks defaming His name.
It would be an act of sacrilege to tear up or burn a piece of paper with "God" written on it even if it happened accidentally.
So to be on the safe side the name is never written, He is referred to as He, Tetragrammaton (from YHWH, the Hebrew version of Jehovah) or G-d.
Apparently for believers erasing ones and zeros would have the same effect.
49 posted on
02/15/2004 4:13:29 PM PST by
null and void
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To: Hand em their arse
"nor have I ever thought GOD approved of XMAS"
Isn't the X for Greek Chi therefore XMAS IS Christmas?
To: Hand em their arse
Jewish tradition to not take Gods name in vain. It is a sign of respect.
183 posted on
02/16/2004 8:36:46 AM PST by
American in Israel
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