interesting that due to the translation of the bible they use a lot of Christians don't know their God has a name. in fairness though maybe this is a good thing, since you aren't meant to say the tetragrammaton. i guess Jehovah's Witnesses differ on this tho
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I still find it sort of strange that Jewish people do this in English, since 'God' is a de facto way to NOT use the Tetragrammaton. wonder if this is anything to do with not being able to Genizah the entire internet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genizah ) help
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my lay understanding is that the prohibition of icons extends to language symbols as well as representational art. JHVH, Jaweh, Jehovah, and such are all taken to be icons. Why is "God" taken as an icon and modified into G_D? That's a consistent interpretation of English...
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...language conventions, where due to Judaeo-Christian cultural backdrop it is understood that the symbol "God" (with capitol G) is referring to JHVH and is not a generic noun referring to any divinity. I.E. in context its not that weird an is an extension of the convention.
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but you should really check me on this stuff, i'm not any kind of expert and i didn't verify that.
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