My family has a friend named Brenna that loves church enough to go to two services every week - one on Saturday and Sunday. Brenna has a habit of capitalizing all the words in the the phrase "The Holy Bible, no matter where she uses it in her sentence.
I wish Bible translators were so emphatic about capitalizing 'God pronouns' whenever they come up as Brenna is about the Bible. My new ESV bible doesn't capitalize pronouns when referring to God. It seems like this is a trend among Bibles, and its a trend that I don't like.
This may be seen by some of you as a useless pet peeve, but I believe God deserves credit wherever He is mentioned. It also delineates who is being talked about.
The Israelites made sure to honor God in a similar way. When writing the word Yahweh, they omitted the vowels and wrote it as Yhwh. The abbreviation is known as the Tretragramaton.
Here's Wikipedia if you want more history :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahweh
God is Good - He is Righteous,
Brady
Friday, August 3, 2007
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