Concept
God (word)
Overview
English word
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* * * * * THE NAME OF GOD. [Ps. 111:9, Mal. 2:2, Rev. 15:4] A name is that by which we know a person. God's name means all by which He is known to us; hence not only the words God, Lord, Jehovah, Jesus Christ, the Almighty, the Eternal, the Omniscient One, etc., but the Word of God and the Sacraments, and all holy things. This Commandment _forbids_ the wrong use, and _commands_ the right use of God's holy name.
Martin Luther, An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism
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3. God is the Maker of heaven and earth, He created all things. Therefore He also created man. How did God create the first man? Man is the foremost of all the visible creatures. How do we prove this? In whose image did God make our first parents?
George Mezger, Lessons in the Small Catechism of Dr. Martin Luther For the Senior Department of Lutheran Sunday-Schools and for General Use
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"God is King, let the Earth rejoice," saith the Psalmist. (Psal. 96. 1). And again, "God is King though the Nations be angry; and he that sitteth on the Cherubins, though the earth be moved." (Psal. 98. 1).
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
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So that what with us is sounding voice, is with God a substantial thing, a reality! Thus, the sun, the moon, the heaven, the earth, Peter, Paul, you, and I, are all and each, words of God! Yea, we are single syllables or single letters as it were of and in comparison to the whole creation. We also speak, but we can only speak grammatically, or in letters. That is we give names to created things, etc.
Martin Luther, Commentary on Genesis, Vol. 1
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God’s are the armies of the heavens and the earth, and God is Mighty and Wise! Verily we have sent thee as a witness and a herald of gladness and a warner, That ye may believe in God and in His Apostle; and may revere Him, and honour Him, and magnify Him morning and evening.
Prophet Muhammad, The Speeches & Table-Talk of the Prophet Mohammad
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Place in the tradition
Part of Pandeism.