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Throughout this Blog, I will make many references to G-d. As you might have guessed, this is my spelling of the word God. In fact, I intend that the full spelling of G-d be as rare as possible.
Throughout time, mankind has used G-d’s real full name in a far too callous sense. We misuse it, and thus sin because there are only two proper ways to refer to G-d,
- To Him: When talking to, praying to, etc. G-d’s full name can be used.
- About Him: When teaching others about G-d, much how I am using His name now.
I fear using G-d’s full name improperly because we should always avoid sin and thus treat His name with the greatest reverence possible. Let me give you an example of how Saint Augustine opens to G-d in his book ‘The Confessions’, a real classic.
“Great are you, O Lord, and exceedingly worthy of praise, your power is immense, and your wisdom is beyond reckoning. And so we humans, who are a due part of your creation, long to praise you — we who carry our mortality about with us, carry the evidence of our sin and with it the proof that you thwart the proud.” - St. Augustine, The Confessions, Chapter 1.
Throughout this blog, it would be impossible to refer to G-d with such splendor as He deserves every time I type His name. So as an exercise of caution and preservation of His most Holy name, I will stick to using G-d in my writing.
Throughout this blog, you will notice that I capitalize the first letter of the word Truth sometimes, and other times I leave it in its improper format: truth. Using Truth in the proper sense means that I am referring or stating an absolute truth, a statement that can never be argued as wrong in any circumstance.
For example, the statement, “Murder is wrong.” is a Truth because it can never be false. It is absolute in that it can never change under any circumstance.
In contrast, the statement, “Chicken is delicious!” is a truth because it is subjective meaning that it can be true for some people and false for others. It depends on the person, whereas Truth never depends on any person’s point of view.
I will reference my Truths as often as I can. If a Truth comes from Scripture, which is a book of Truths, then it is easily referenced in (book chapter:verse) format. Since I do not believe in sola scriptura, Truths can be revealed to others and written by holy people, especially the Saints. There is a governing body called The Church which determines what is Truth and what is not after careful review of the arguments. Furthermore, I do believe that G-d is guiding The Church so that it can’t ever be wrong in its choices. A discussion of this is beyond the scope of this entry.
Sacred Scripture (the Bible) is used throughout this blog to underline certain Truths. The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) edition is the copy that I use. Scripture is infallable meaning it is Truth, however the literal interpretation of the text in the Bible is impossible to be entirely True. Instead, consider that the Bible is a literary device — its a collection of the best Truths that mankind has ever been revealed to by G-d. People wrote it, and their contexts, culture and language were vastly different than today. Although the message they wrote is without a doubt G-d’s word to mankind and this makes it infallable.
There’s many arguments to back me up on this one, and to date — none can really make a compelling argument to me that sola scriptura is true, nor that any one specific version of the Bible is “more True” than this version.
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