G O D The English word forGOD has become a source of confusion - TopicsExpress



          

G O D The English word forGOD has become a source of confusion for Christians since as least the Anglo-Saxon era. Websters New Collegiate Dictionary sats that the origin of the word god comes from a Germanic word gad, pronounced as goht. English word God is identical with the Anglo-Saxon word for good, and therefore it is believed that the name God refers to the devine goodness. Our God word goes back via Germanic yo Indo-European, in which a corresponding ancestor form meant invoked one. The words only surviving non-Germanic relative is Sanskrit hu, invoke the gods, a form which appears in the Rig Neda, most ancient of Hindu scriptures. Puru-hutas, much invoked, epithey of the rain-and-thunder god Indra. Now, that the word we use for the Supreme Being, god, comes from a very pagan origin, thus the word god is used generically by many different religions to refer to their deity or invoked one
Posted on: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 11:30:10 +0000

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