RE: Meanings of “God” in some scriptures
July 8, 2018 at 10:08 pm
(This post was last modified: July 8, 2018 at 10:12 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(July 8, 2018 at 3:31 pm)jimhabegger Wrote: Update on my thoughts: Some religious scriptures that I use to help me do what I want to do in life use the word “God.” I’ve learned some ways of using that word too, in my thinking, because that helps me also. It also helps me in communicating with other people sometimes. For those times when it does not help in communicating with people, I’m trying to learn to say what I think without using that word, and that’s helping me also.
I have nothing to say about the meaning of the word “God,” by itself, in my scriptures or in my thinking, or whether or not it corresponds to some being that exists or is real.
Anything anyone wants to say about that would be welcome.
If the goal is accurate communication...it;s generally best to say what you mean rather than employ some catch-all term. You don;t really know whether or not it;s helped you in communicating with people who believe in gods, even.
They might think you;ve been talking about something...or someone....else, all this time.
It;s worth considering, and it;s one of the more amusing things I noticed about people in the bahai periphery. They take for granted that the term "god" can be employed in this way. That the referrent is malleable. They even imagine that other people are referring to essentially the same thing when they use the term. They take this for granted because it;s taken for granted in their faith. This is not a point of agreement with other believers. Nor is it a point of agreement for lunguists, or cultural anthropologists.
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