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From: ariels@orca.UUCP (Ariel Shattan)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: "G-d" and destroying holy names - reposting of the rules
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Date: Tue, 3-Jan-84 13:58:13 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan  3 13:58:13 1984
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Laura,

People have been using "G-d" in place of "God" for as long as
they've been writing such things in English (as opposed to Hebrew or
Aramaic or Yiddish).  The use of "G-d" is not a recent invention
(recent here meaning the life of electronic mail systems).  

So, I don't think that there is much danger of "G-d" becoming
"sacred".


Also, Elohim was not a substitute for the tetragramaton, but a name
of God in its own right (ITS substitution is Elokim), along with
Shaddai, Ael (Kael), Addonai (Adoshem), the Shechina, and many others. 
These all were used (are used) to represent different attributes of the 
Diety. 

Ariel Shattan
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