In the search for truth, it seems several out there forget how they got to that truth. Because some of what they had learned previously was wrong, everything must be wrong. I will admit, that when I went searching for truth I questioned everything, but I did find that several things that I had inherited did show valid.

The notion that a translation of a word is pagan baffles me. Lord, for example, according to Merriam-Webster comes from the Old English hlaford, which is loaf (meaning head) and ward (guard) combined.

Or God, which comes from the Old High Germanic got, which means "the god" and has no evidence of being borrowed.

Couple that with the fact that the Hebrew for these terms are used in reference to things that aren't pagan gods many, many times throughout Scripture.

I once had someone tell me that those words didn't need to be translated. I don't know about everyone else, but I grew up speaking English. English is my primary language, so when I need a definition of a language I am learning, I need that definition in English. Once I am fluent in another, maybe that will change. If I hadn't studied Hebrew and someone came up to me saying something along the lines of "We have to give praise to the Elohim". I would question what they were talking about. If they really felt saying "god" was pagan, I can't picture how they would be able to define it for me. Maybe by using the word deity, which ironically according to Merriam-Webster has a definition of "god".

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