How did God get his name?

[naswm]

DS (nearly 6) asked this

it's not his name. It's just the English for a 'supreme deity'.

Different languages have different names for a 'supreme deity': Dieu, Allah (Arab christians use Allah for 'god'), Gott, Dios, Yahweh, Jehovah etc

thanks Twiglett

now help me explain 'supreme deity' to DS1!

i was told by a friend it was from the dutch.

De gott = good /god

De evil=evil/devil

im probably way off beam.

although I think Yahweh and Jehovah might be attempts at giving a name to the Hebrew letters for YHWH which I think is something like 'to be' or 'he that makes things become' or somthing .. gawd but I'm rusty on this

it's all tosh [girn]

read him Jonathan Livingstone Seagull by Richard Bach instead

lol yes I will have to dig tyhat out!

God's Mum used the Baby Names section on Mumsnet. The alternatives were considered either a bit chav.

pmsl

I told DS that God is bigger and better than anything else he could possibly think of, and 'God' is the word we use for that.
And God has the answers for all those really great questions that mum and dad TOGETHER can't answer! He said "Wow, that is really clever!!"