God in third person

Posted on by Will

When addressing deity in the third person do you capitalize or use lowercase? Why do you choose whichever way that you choose?

  • Joe

    One of the beautiful things about our God is that he created language. He is the one who spoke things into existence. He is already glorified in the English language by the fact that there is even such a thing as English language. Anyone who has a third grade education should be able to both write and read a sentence in such a way that both pronouns and their antecedents are clear. Instead of changing the English language by capitalizing a pronoun to show God glory, I suggest you display your grasp of the English languageand so glorify the creator of it. And as a side notethe Greek New Testament, Hebrew Old Testament, and most major English Bible translations make zero alterations (capitalization or otherwise) to pronouns referring to God.

  • http://twitter.com/vfmurphy @vfmurphy

    I tend to capitalise, for three reasons. First, because it helps avoid people mistaking the object of the pronoun, grammar being what it is. Second, because there are many people who talk of god or gods but do not mean God. Finally, on twitter using a capitalised pronoun (He/Him etc) immediately avoids the need to explain that 'he' is God, giving more characters for the message.