{"id":10467,"date":"2023-11-12T02:48:46","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T02:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=10467"},"modified":"2023-11-13T01:54:37","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T01:54:37","slug":"thinking-learning-god-good-are-they-related","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=10467","title":{"rendered":"THiNKiNG\/LEARNiNG: God & Good\u2026 are they related?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A commonly held but meaningless contemporary platitude, based on accidental linguistic resemblance.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Re God & Good; are these terms in any way related? And if so, how?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had an interesting chat with uncle Terry today. During our conversation he suggested – well, asserted, more accurately – that God means Good. And that that this idea stands for all the Abrahamic religions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have heard this said before, of course. Esp\u2019 back when I was moving in Christian circles. But it\u2019s not an idea I\u2019ve often encountered since I left religion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I\u2019ve always suspected – so far without bothering to look into the matter – that it\u2019s a mistaken assumption. Based, initially perhaps, on what art historian Norman Rosenthal rather pompously and portentously (as is the way with too many art critics) calls \u2018morphological resonance\u2019. Or, in plain English, the two words look so similar, they must be related. Right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrong!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I thought I\u2019d simply \u2018google\u2019 the phrase \u2018God etymology\u2019, and did so. And I subsequently read perhaps four of five articles or essays on the topic. I\u2019m linking two of those here, that I think are short and simple enough to make easily digestible reading:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Religious terminology: the etymology of “god”<\/a><\/blockquote>