The Shepherd's Chapel Student Says Paul Stringini Refers to God With a Small "G," and is Most Likely Referring To his God Satan"

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"You Refer to God With a Small "G," You Are Most Likely Referring To Your God Satan"

The Question/Comment:

----- Original Message -----

From: Name And Address Withheld

To: reborn@oraclesofgod.org (Paul Stringini)

Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 2:21 PM

Subject: you refer to God with a small G

When you refer to God with a small g, you are referring to another God besides the one true God. For you, since you have been fooled by Satan so much , you are most likely referring to your god satan.

My First Response: edits in maroon and in ( ), as in: (this is an example of an edit)

----- Original Message -----

From: Paul Stringini

To:

Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 2:42 PM

Subject: Re: you refer to God with a small G

Is that the best you can do?

Additional Comments:

I know that to some people the issue of capitalization is extremely sensitive. But technically speaking, proper capitalization in modern English follows a particular formula.

Grammatically God is similar to the word "father." "Father" is only capitalized if it is being used as a proper name: i.e. "I went to the store with Father."

But one would not capitalize the word "father" in this context: "I went to the store with my father."

So, properly, in the sentence, "The Lord is my god." God does not need to be capitalized.

It would, however be appropriate to capitalize the word "god" in the following context: "My lord is God." Because God is being used in place of a proper name.

Technical issues aside, in general practice I capitalize God almost all the time, and I generally capitalize pronouns referring to God as well. Every once and a while I miss and this emailer found one, unfortunately, she did not let me know where it was, so I could correct the oversight.

Whether Satan was my god or not, it would only be technically necessary to capitalize it (God) if I used it in place of a proper noun. Even so, since it is my practice to capitalize God nearly all the time, so then I would probably capitalize the word God when it referred to Satan along with all pronouns used in place of his name.

So all this emailer did was find one of my slip-ups, because whoever My God is, I'm going to honor Him with capital letters.

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