There is an intentional distinction that I need to make regarding my writings and the way I refer to God.
First, it’s important to note that what I write isn’t scripture unless I’m literally citing a verse from scripture. In which case, that scripture and that scripture alone, which is gospel, should be taken as such.
Second, when I use the word King in capital letters, this is not blasphemy. King is a title, and that title does not belong to God alone. Our Lord is the King of Kings. This implicitly means that we ought to have Kings that rank below him.
Third, when using the word lord I am deliberate in how I use it. Lowercase “lord” is merely using the word itself or refering to the medieval title, or it’s in reference to a false god. The same goes for the usage of god vs God, the ladder being in reference to our Lord, the former usually being a description of false gods (Think Ego from Guardians of the Galaxy, a fictional example of a false god who weirdly seems to acknowledge it, perhaps because marvel didn’t want to step on toes.), as the Bible does this when speaking of false gods like Ba’al. Although I will capitalize the name of those false gods. This is just proper syntax since that’s how names work. It isn’t at all acknowledging authority of false gods. Lord is in reference to God’s title of Lord, and LORD is in reference to His name, which is Jehovah. But both Lord and LORD mean God.
As Christians, it’s not a sin to simply describe a “god” or “lord” of a false religion as such as long as you do not capitalize l or g. If it werr a sin, then the Old Testament authors would be commiting a sin when they were writing about the gods of the caananites. They did not worship these gods, but they had to describe them as what they were. At least to those that worshipped them.
Nostrum XVI
There is an intentional distinction that I need to make regarding my writings and the way I refer to God.
First, it’s important to note that what I write isn’t scripture unless I’m literally citing a verse from scripture. In which case, that scripture and that scripture alone, which is gospel, should be taken as such.
Second, when I use the word King in capital letters, this is not blasphemy. King is a title, and that title does not belong to God alone. Our Lord is the King of Kings. This implicitly means that we ought to have Kings that rank below him.
Third, when using the word lord I am deliberate in how I use it. Lowercase “lord” is merely using the word itself or refering to the medieval title, or it’s in reference to a false god. The same goes for the usage of god vs God, the ladder being in reference to our Lord, the former usually being a description of false gods (Think Ego from Guardians of the Galaxy, a fictional example of a false god who weirdly seems to acknowledge it, perhaps because marvel didn’t want to step on toes.), as the Bible does this when speaking of false gods like Ba’al. Although I will capitalize the name of those false gods. This is just proper syntax since that’s how names work. It isn’t at all acknowledging authority of false gods. Lord is in reference to God’s title of Lord, and LORD is in reference to His name, which is Jehovah. But both Lord and LORD mean God.
As Christians, it’s not a sin to simply describe a “god” or “lord” of a false religion as such as long as you do not capitalize l or g. If it werr a sin, then the Old Testament authors would be commiting a sin when they were writing about the gods of the caananites. They did not worship these gods, but they had to describe them as what they were. At least to those that worshipped them.
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