Why Capitalize "Him?"

It just seems a bit silly to me that a diety whose existence or nonexistence can't be 100% confirmed gets an exception to a gramatical rule. Same goes for 'He,' 'His,' etc.

Another example is the usage of the phrase "the Christian God," which should actually be "the Christian god," just like someone would say "Sean's dad." Of course, when God is used as a name, it's different, again, just like one might say "Dad told me..."

And before anyone says it, I did Google it. Couldn't find a good answer.

I beleive the caps are to make the reader recognize that this isn't just one of many gods or that he is a regular person, but to show that he is God. Also respect.123625

Well, one could just used a more original name (Jahova is it?) instead of the generic "God" to solve the problem of many gods. I suppose capitalization allows the use of sentences involving a man and God without the problem of ambiguity though (as in Tim and John received equal pay until he received his raise vs. Tim and God received equal pay until He received His raise).

So, to me anyway, it seems like it's just sort of a "God is the most important thing in the universe and therefore deserves emphasis when referenced, but He's above your earthly grammatical rules," thing. Seems kinda arbitrary, but w/e.

Also, interesting is the usage of "the Truth" by CWU members. Same reason I suppose.

[QUOTE="123625"]I beleive the caps are to make the reader recognize that this isn't just one of many gods or that he is a regular person, but to show that he is God. Also respect.AlternatingCaps

Well, one could just used a more original name (Jahova is it?) instead of the generic "God" to solve the problem of many gods. I suppose capitalization allows the use of sentences involving a man and God without the problem of ambiguity though (as in Tim and John received equal pay until he received his raise vs. Tim and God received equal pay until He received His raise).

So, to me anyway, it seems like it's just sort of a "God is the most important thing in the universe and therefore deserves emphasis when referenced, but He's above your earthly grammatical rules," thing. Seems kinda arbitrary, but w/e.

Also, interesting is the usage of "the Truth" by CWU members. Same reason I suppose.

Well technically his original name is either Elohim or Yahweh. And yeah thats probably the reason we capatalize. I don't think God minds, but its also to show respect and acknowledge who he is. At least to me. Some Jews on the net I've noticed don't use the 'o' in God, out of respect as well.

Well when you write 'God' you surely have a definition of that word, and in that definition I presume you would have God as being very significant.

So if you are merely entertaining the hypothesis by verbalising it, then you are regarding it by the definition of that hypothesis. So really, it doesn't matter whether he exists or doesn't, because the idea of god still remains, and that is what you hope to verbalise when you write his name.

If that makes any sense at all.

The weird is why it is a "He" and not a "She". I'm not suggesting it should be a "She" but Christianism is supposed to be in favour of both genders. I don't really know what to suppose (other that the fact that we still live in a "men's" society) but I usually refer to god with "it" and not in capitals. Besides, god is not supposed to have a gender am I wrong? The capital thing is mainly to shopw significance. The same goes with ordinary names such as George, which come from ordinary words and are capitalized to show significance of the person over the profession (in the case of George which comes from the greek word "georgos" = farmer in greek) Hope I have enlightened the... audience lolTeenaged

Nearly every major Christian denomination believes God is something that transcends gender; the reason we see it in the Bible as being a masculine figure is due to their patriarchal culture of the time; we still use it due to its common usage, but I hope that no one truly believe's that God is something that can be classified by human gender.