For philosophical purposes, God means the Great Entity that provides an infinitely past and present entity which fills the void for a creation of matter and energy.Newme wrote: ↑May 2nd, 2019, 10:15 amInteresting.h_k_s wrote: ↑May 1st, 2019, 1:47 pm Note that the English word "God" does not come from "good". That it does it a Protestant myth.
God comes from Goth. It is a Gothic word. It means "the Goth" or "the great Goth".
While Gothic did exist and was spoken somewhere in the northern woodlands of Roman Europe, the word God did not exist until the English language was ultimately born around 1066 CE.
God, depending on which Being you might be referring to, does have a name even several names.
We can read some versions of them in the Greek New Testament.
Other versions of them appear in the Hebrew Tenakh.
You motivated me to look up the origin of the word, God. I found that some say it is unknown, others:That aside, please realize I’m using the word as a symbol for what God means to me... essentially highest good. Even if the word God has other origins, I care more what it means to me now. We might agree God (as understood currently by most) is at least partly subjectively defined.
- “The earliest written form of the Germanic word god comes from the 6th century Christian Codex Argenteus. The English word itself is derived from the Proto-Germanic * ǥuđan.
*Gudan was neuter in gender, and probably only meant "deity" in general.
*The name of the Babylonian god of fortune is "gad."
*Etymology of the Word "God". the name sometimes applied to an idol as the image or dwelling-place of a god. The root-meaning of the name (from Gothic root gheu; Sanskrit hub or emu, "to invoke or to sacrifice to") is either "the one invoked" or "the one sacrificed to."
*From a root *ǵʰau̯- (*ǵʰeu̯h2-) "to call, to invoke" (Sanskrit hūta).
For religious purposes in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, it is a Being who is like the philosophical God.
We should not forget that Aristotle concluded that there must be 50 or so God(s). He got this from his eye-view observations of the heavens -- 5,000 stars.
We now know there are 2 billion galaxies, not just 5,000 stars.