[JABit]

Number one, I’m not Jewish. Number two, my bible spells it God, not G-d. Thanks for your insightful comment, jackass.

[POWERSBOOTHEFAN]

I know you aren’t Jewish. I am telling you about a Jewish tradition and why God’s name is not spelled or typed on the Internet or anywhere else out of reverence and caution. If His Name is written on a piece of paper or a blackboard it can be erased,misused or crumpled up and thrown in the garbage.

The Bible is obviously a different story since people generally don’t throw it out or toss it across a room or treat it in an any irreverent fashion.

There are Jews right here on Free Republic who omit the ‘o’. I’m sure you must have seen it time and time again.

[Olog-hai]

If you profess to be Christian, that means you’re trying to be a spiritual Jew; and the Bible came from Jewry. People on this forum are very sensitive to attacks on temporal Jews here, myself included; and traditionally Jews believe that spelling out the entire name, even in English, puts them at risk of an utterance of the LORD’s name in vain especially if the written form ends up somehow misused.

“Your Bible” comes from the Hebrew and Aramaic and is a translation. There was no English language during the time of Jesus, furthermore.

[Borges]

Your Bible is a translation of a text that most certainly does not spell out the name of G-d.