Gee-Chee said...I'm sure nobody is after the etymology of the word "God."
If they're going to sincerely invest their belief and practices in the thing, then it is incumbent upon them to understand the actual nature of the thing in which they're invested.
e.g., misunderstanding of the word mistranslated as "salvation" has folks professing and believing a "something for nothing" fairy tale entirely unrelated to the authentic practice and teaching. -CNu
What’s going on here is that you are investigating words by their sacerdotal origins i.e. Koine Greek (Eastern Church), Attic Greek, Latin (Western Church) etc. Abrahamic faiths are not sacerdotal, they are sacred languages i.e. Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic (Semitic), Sanskrit.
Translating from sacred languages into sacerdotal languages, then finally into other languages kills the nuances and abstractions of its Semitic origins (the case for any language). The Bible is a compilation of these sacerdotal translations.
Revelations weren’t revealed as “the Bible”. Just like all of these Jimi Hendrix albums after his death are obviously songs taken from a combination of previous albums and/or studio sessions. We understand the Greeks had anthropomorphic ideas about their deities. So what you argue is accurate, but applying that only to text locked into sacerdotal parameters. Christainity is of the Abrahamic tradition but Abrahamic traditions is not Christianity.
All this philosophy without application of Occam's razor.
Doods profess atheism OR worship autonomous gods IN ORDER TO MAXIMIZE THEIR AUTONOMY.
Doods UNDERSTAND that worshipping The One True God is, by practice, discriminatory and therefore A RESTRAINT ON ONE'S FREEDOM.
These cats advocate abortion FOR A REASON.
These cats argue against the knowability of God FOR A REASON.
These doods cool with the original eugenicists FOR A REASON.
What's the reason? Simple... Absolute freedom... Extreme liberalism... Radical autonomy... They warring with God or defining Him out of existence and hoping there's not hell to pay.
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