this is sort of conspiritard 101 territory, but anytime i see or hear someone write 'god' i can't help see it mirroring the word dog, and wouldn't it be the perfect occult joke to the people who engineered the english language to pick some less popular words for these nouns in order to mock those intoning these words?
most of the word origins for 'god' point to proto indo-european guthan as origin for god, which was used to mean to pour, as in a libation or sacrifice, and perhaps either the worshippers, as the root word was also assigned as a personal moniker or epithet, or the dieties they honored.
these seem to be used mostly for lesser dieties at best, with better words encoding higher dieties. The latin word Deus from the proto-indo-european Deiwos meaning celestial or shining.
personally Deus or The Shining One sounds cooler and probably what i might use instead.
the word dog also had an even more spurious origin that no one really knows, with many other options from other languages that might make more sense. there were so many other choices but this one being pushed to the top of the pack so-to-speak is suspect.
an aside, the word planet from greek planetes meant wanderer, false teacher, > '(figuratively) a false teacher, operating without moral compass and exploiting other aimless people – i.e. prompting them to also stray from God's circle of safety (sound doctrine)'.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/god
god (n.) also God; Old English god "supreme being, deity; the Christian God; image of a god; godlike person," from Proto-Germanic *guthan (source also of Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Dutch god, Old High German got, German Gott, Old Norse guð, Gothic guþ), which is of uncertain origin; perhaps from PIE *ghut- "that which is invoked" (source also of Old Church Slavonic zovo "to call," Sanskrit huta- "invoked," an epithet of Indra), from root *gheu(e)- "to call, invoke." The notion could be "divine entity summoned to a sacrifice."
But some trace it to PIE *ghu-to- "poured," from root *gheu- "to pour, pour a libation" (source of Greek khein "to pour," also in the phrase khute gaia "poured earth," referring to a burial mound; see found (v.2)). "Given the Greek facts, the Germanic form may have referred in the first instance to the spirit immanent in a burial mound" [Watkins]. See also Zeus. In either case, not related to good.
Popular etymology has long derived God from good; but a comparison of the forms ... shows this to be an error. Moreover, the notion of goodness is not conspicuous in the heathen conception of deity, and in good itself the ethical sense is comparatively late. [Century Dictionary, 1897] Originally a neuter noun in Germanic, the gender shifted to masculine after the coming of Christianity. Old English god probably was closer in sense to Latin numen. A better word to translate deus might have been Proto-Germanic *ansuz, but this was used only of the highest deities in the Germanic religion, and not of foreign gods, and it was never used of the Christian God. It survives in English mainly in the personal names beginning in Os-.
https://www.reddit.com/r/etymology/comments/9o4r8f/what_is_the_origin_of_the_word_dog/
So what would you suggest we replace the word God with?
In the Gospel of the Canaanite Woman (Matthew 15:21-28), Jesus referred to a Canaanite woman as a "dog" because Jews in Jesus' day used the word "dogs" as a common insult.
Jesus Christ picked NO GENTILES for his disciples. No diversity picks. No women. No non-jews.
When a gentile woman asked Jesus Christ to help her, he called her a dog as an insult.
I don't like how Christians try to gloss over this or explain it away.
Once again you misunderstand the Lord and must look at the context, noting the timing and history of people up to this point when Jesus speaks to her. No one wanted the real God and everyone had their weirdo icon demons they worshipped, the Hebrews were charged with being God's people in that they were designated to be His ambassadors and keeps His word and commandments and follow His ways(didn't usually go so well but God still wins man, Dude is great!!!). Again pretty much no one has been wanting the Creator, they worship the creation throughout history and especially at this place in time, so when Jesus(God) started His ministry He first spoke to those that had been the most loyal. When He says why should I give food from my children's mouth(Hebrews) to the dogs(those unloyal) this is why He speaks like that and even the women understood this point and acknowledges that He is Lord and she has been a pagan, so she says, but even the dogs eat the crumbs from the master's table, she is recognizing His position and her previous behavior because whether you like it or not we are all beneath Jesus and have wronged Him. And Jesus accepts her and gives her what she asked: Matthew 15:26-28
He answered, “It isn’t right to take the children’s bread and throw it to their dogs.”
“Yes, Lord,” she said, “yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters’ table!”
Then Jesus replied to her, “Woman, your faith is great. Let it be done for you as you want.” And from that moment her daughter was cured. hcsb
Sounds like Jesus/God is racist.
Chooses one race over others.
Prefers Jew race.
You believe in this nonsense? Jews are the most wicked, lying , cursed people on earth. No one more loyally serves Satan. And yet you believe Jew myth that they are superior and let them call our gentile women dogs and even make excuses for it? That sounds like cuckoldry. This is why they call you Christ-cuck? You jerk off while Jews insult your gentile women and call them dogs?
You are way out of line and must have skipped over my explaination. You read His word like He's an enemy because you have made Him one, you are the enemy who needs to lay down your weapons, God isn't gunning you down.
Well i don't even know what race Canaanites were. You could try to convince me they did deserve to be called dogs.
Also Jesus did not pick women to be his disciples. So why do Christian men promote women to lead over them today? This is clearly not what Jesus did. He did not ask women to preach to the congregation.
The God of the old testament is too different from the new testament. God in old testament instructs his privileged chosen racist jews to destroy entire villages including women and children. Wages war. Instructs war. Carries out vengeance. The God of the new testament is a blood sacrifice himself? drink blood eat flesh sacrifice the lamb?
Another theory could be that the Jews of the bible are different from Hebrew or Israelite or Judaic . That modern jews now are not the main characters of the new testament but it was inserted later to confuse or trick followers.
Also, I am asking fair questions. Jews in the Talmud call Mother Mary a whore and say Jesus is in a cauldron in hell boiling in excrement? And yet white Christians still send their sons to die for anti-christ jews on the other side of the world then lie and call it national defense and go on the spiel about israel and zionism. Christians became pathetic. Christians let these people who hate Christ rule their banks and corporations and government and media and education and industry.