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1 | rock or Rock,god or God,savior or Savior | Hos 13:4 | Hank | 20035 | ||
Hello, Ray. My, but it's been a long time since we "visited" on the forum! It's a pleasure to attempt a response to your question, and so here goes. As you know, it's proper English usage to refer to God with a capital G when we are speaking of the God of the Bible, because we use it as a proper name. But the word "god" is also used as a common name, as when we are speaking of a pagan god or gods...... In the passages you cite I believe the NASB translators used lower case for "god" because they saw it as referring to a pagan god. On the other hand, the NKJV may have taken the view that even though pagans may worship something they call god, there cannot really be any other God. It stresses the uniqueness of God. It's much like saying, "There is no United States but the United States. Any other claim to being the United States is a false claim, a sham, a fake."...... God is in essence saying "I am God. There is no other being in the universe who can be God." ....... It is of some interest to note that the NIV in the Deut. 32:39 verse says "there is no god besides me" while in the Hosea 13:4 verse the rendering is, "You shall acknowledge no God but me." ...... You asked for a preference of one over the other, of using God or god in these verses. Ray, there are, I believe, valid arguments to be made for using either, and I frankly have no real preference. So long as we get the clear message that there is but one God, we have gained from the passages the eternal truth they mean to teach us. --Hank | ||||||
2 | rock or Rock,god or God,savior or Savior | Hos 13:4 | kalos | 20069 | ||
Hank: I'm not clear on your meaning when you write: "it's proper English usage to refer to God with a capital G when we are speaking of the God of the Bible, because we use it as a proper name. But the word "god" is also used as a common name, as when we are speaking of a pagan god or gods..." When using the phrases "proper name" and "common name", are you referring to proper nouns and common nouns? |
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3 | rock or Rock,god or God,savior or Savior | Hos 13:4 | Hank | 20071 | ||
Shame on you, Kalos, questioning an English major :-) But you caught me dead in my tracks! Yes, it was "proper noun" that I meant and it was "proper noun" that I should have said. They "learned" me better in school, but then it has been more than 40 years since I took an English lesson. Until now. Thanks for yours :-) Best regards, brother. --Hank | ||||||