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GOD , the See also:common See also:Teutonic word for a See also:personal. See also:object of religious See also:worship. It is thus, like the Gr. Ochs and See also:Lat. See also:dens, applied to all those superhuman beings of the See also:heathen mythologies who exercise See also:power over nature and See also:man and are often identified with some particular See also:sphere of activity; and also to the visible material See also:objects, whether an See also:image of the supernatural being or a See also:tree, See also:pillar, &c. used as a See also:symbol, an idol. The word " god," on the See also:conversion of the Teutonic races to See also:Christianity, was adopted as the name of the one Supreme Being, the Creator of the universe, and of the Persons of the Trinity. The New See also:English See also:Dictionary points cut that whereas the old Teutonic type of the word is neuter, corresponding to the Latin numen, in the See also:Christian applications it becomes masculine, and that even where the earlier neuter See also:form is still kept, as in See also:Gothic and Old See also:Norwegian, the construction is masculine. Popular See also:etymology has connected the word with " See also:good "; this is exemplified by the corruption of " God be with you " into " good-bye." " God " is a word common to all Teutonic See also:languages. In Gothic it is Guth; Dutch has the same form as English; Danish and See also:Swedish have Gud, See also:German Gott. According to the New English Dictionary, the See also:original may be found in two See also:Aryan roots, both of the form gheu, one of which means " to invoke," the other " to pour " (cf. Gr. xav); the last is used of sacrificial offerings. The word would thus mean the object either of religious invocation or of religious worship by See also:sacrifice. It has been also suggested that the word might mean a " molten image " from the sense of " pour." See See also:RELIGION; See also:HEBREW RELIGION; See also:THEISM, &C. End of Article: GODAdditional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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