Is LORD a corporation?

Does this capitalization indicate a 'personage or title' of fiction?

In the Bible, no other personages or deities are in all caps. So what makes this particular entity distinguished from God, Yhwh, Jesus, Jehova, etc.?




[edit on 29-11-2009 by Alethea]

The Christian god has an inferiority complex?

Because the "LORD" is a staw man or legal person if you will.

A straw man is not a real person but an entity for legal purposes. The church would be able to use this entity in litigation cases.

Don't sue any actual person in the church, sue the "LORD".

Yeah I just made that up but do the research on a "straw man".

LORD is an acronym.
It stands for:

Liturgical
Order of
Religious
Deities

Notice the plural -Christianity is a henotheistic religion, which culminates in Catholicism. (Christianity: Father, Son, Spirit. Catholicism: Trinity, and a host of saints)

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LORD is a different word than God or Lord. LORD refers to the root word YHWH, commonly remade into Yaweh or Jehovah. God may be elohim or some other word. That's my take on it. I read somewhere else on ATS that a lord was a nobleman who opened his stores of bread for the poor.

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Originally posted by Alethea
Is LORD a corporation?

Does this capitalization indicate a 'personage or title' of fiction?

In the Bible, no other personages or deities are in all caps. So what makes this particular entity distinguished from God, Yhwh, Jesus, Jehova, etc.?

The capitaized LORD is only used in the Old Testament manuscripts.

LORD is always a translation of Yehovah meaning: Jehovah = "the existing One"

It was the proper name of the one true God...
...whose name was unpronounced except with the vowel pointings.

The name was capitalized 'LORD' as a mark of respect in English translations.

Btw 'respect' is a concept not well understood by post-moderns.

The translation of 'LORD' ~in all Caps~ Denotes that the reader;

must mentally or vocally 'SING' the name LORD.... and in a loud way !

Continued,

Originally posted by Sigismundus
Hi Oliveil--

There were VERY good reasons why 17th century Protestants in England decided against naming the clan god of Israel as YAHWEH.

For one thing, before we get going, the KJV King James Bible (which was re-printed with hundreds of print-corrections more than 4 times in the first few years of its existence) ONLY used the pointed vowelled Masoretic text of the OT as a source for their English translation bible text for the OT (they did not use the RomanC Catholic version of the OT called the Latin Vulgate which was a translation of the Greek OT LXX Septaginta by Jerome, which is based on the LXX-Hebrew Unpointed Vorglag underlay (which was found among the Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran in 1946) which is at least 1,000 years older than the Leningrad Codex of the MT) and this Masoretic text is the version that uses the vowels of EDONAI underneath their Hebrew unpointed unvowelled consonantal versioin of their text.

The LXX greek for Exodus chapter three clearly says 'Yahwuh' not Jehovah as the Masoretic symbolically-fake pointing of YHWH has it.

Most of the time, the KJV opts to read:

THE LORD every time it comes to a passage using YHWH

And the KJV used 'GOD' every time it comes to a passage using the word ELOHIM.

When it came to a passsage that read 'YHWH ELOHIM' in the Hebrew MT (for example in the D strand of the Torah, or in the book of Jeremiah, which were written by the school of Baruch in c. BCE 530) the KJV panel translated the phrase in 17th century English as THE LORD GOD.

But THE LORD GOD never occurs in the hebrew text: It says: YHWH-ELOHIM.

All of these words (LORD, GOD, THE LORD GOD) are fake constructs when brought into 17th century English - fake but of course useful for the Protestant clergy who NEVER EVER wanted ANY of their flock to name the actual name of the god of Israel other than to call him LORD or GOD (as if there was ONLY ONE !)

Kind of sneaky of them NOT to explain to their poor ignorant flocks (of sheeple) that they were worshipping a middle eastern clan god with a funny name (Yah-weh)..so using THE LORD and GOD and THE LORD GOD sounded soooooo Universal and appealing (by comparison) ...don't forget they also depended on large numbers of believers (as did the state who wanted more sheeple NOT to question anything about the status quo if possible) who were unquestioningly filling their offering plates every week (along with state subsidies, of course !) to keep them in business just like the Catholic Bank...er Church... does to this day.

Well...at least the Protestant clergy allowed their own congregations to read the Bible in the English of their day, unlike the Roman Catholic clergy who did not allow THEIR parishoners to read the Bible in English or any modern language translations for themselves etc.)

Clear as mud?

I would have put it in my own words however,today is not the best day for my R.A.

[edit on 29-11-2009 by oliveoil]

Originally posted by AshleyD
When 'LORD' is in all caps, that is just to make it clear to the English reader that the word is a translation of YHWH from the original Hebrew. When it is spelled as 'Lord' or 'lord,' it is simply a noun denoting status.

That's it.

(LORD) Its used to distinguish it from the word adonai (lord) not YHWH.YHWH is the Hebrew verb that means "to be" not lord.
Gods name is a verb not a noun
[edit on 29-11-2009 by oliveoil]

[edit on 29-11-2009 by oliveoil]

Originally posted by oliveoil

Originally posted by AshleyD
When 'LORD' is in all caps, that is just to make it clear to the English reader that the word is a translation of YHWH from the original Hebrew. When it is spelled as 'Lord' or 'lord,' it is simply a noun denoting status.

That's it.

(LORD) Its used to distinguish it from the word adonai (lord) not YHWH.YHWH is the Hebrew verb that means "to be" not lord.
Gods name is a verb not a noun
[edit on 29-11-2009 by oliveoil]

[edit on 29-11-2009 by oliveoil]

I know what you were saying
I miss quoted you.Never mind

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