Yahweh

The usual form of the ancient West Semitic (Hebrew) יהוה used in scholarship.
Used especially in discussions of the religion of the ancient kingdoms of Israel and Judah.
The spelling Jahweh was used in German since the 1850s. The spelling Yahweh in English (ensuring the pronunciation of the initial consonant as /j/) first appears in the 1860s, e.g. in the Herald of the Kingdom and Age to Come edited by John Thomas, founder of the Antipas Christadelphians (vol. X. no. 1, Westchester, NY, January 1860). First appeared in English Bible translations for the Tetragrammaton in the 1902 Emphasized Bible (EBR).

1985 "At the time when Yahweh God made earth and heaven" (New Jerusalem Bible, Genesis 2:4)

(religion) A transliteration of the Tetragrammaton.


Jehovah

/d͡ʒəˈhəʊ.və/

Transliteration of Hebrew יְהֹוָה (yəhōwā), the Masoretic vocalization of the Biblical Hebrew יהוה (variously pronounced).
The Masoretic vocalization is a so-called qere perpetuum, the deliberate insertion of the vowels of another word than the one represented by the consonant text, in this case אֲדֹנָי (“my lord”) ('Adonai').
Continuing earlier Iehoua. In English, the name is first attested in 1530, in Tyndale's Bible: I appeared vnto Abraham Isaac and Iacob an allmightie God: but in my name Iehouah was I not knowne vnto them (Exodus 6:3).
Tyndale used Iehouah instead of Wycliffe's Adonay. The KJV also has Jehovah in this verse specifically, while it uses Lord otherwise. Young's Literal Translation (1898) has Jehovah. The New King James Version (1982) has Lord.

I've never had Jehovahs at my door, but the other day two Mormons came to my door.


Allah

From Arabic اللّٰه (allāh), contraction of اَل (al-, “the”) + إِلَه (ʔilah, “deity”); cognate with the Aramaic אלה (aláh) and אלהא (aláhâ), and Hebrew אֵל (él), אֱלוֹהַּ / אֱלֹהַּ (elóah) and אֱלוֹהִים \ אֱלֹהִים (elohím); ultimately from Proto-Semitic *ʾil-.-.

What is the Shia Islamic view on the attributes of Allah?

We are too much men and women; we are yet formed in the image of the Creator, and what can we say of Him with any certainty except that He, whoever He may be—Christ, Yahweh, Allah—He made us, did He not, because even He in His Infinite Perfection could not bear to be alone.

1998, Anne Rice, The Vampire Armand, New York: Knopf, →ISBN, →OL, page 273:

(Islam) God, in Islamic or Arabic contexts


Jesus

head

Jesus (plural (of male given name) Jesuses or Jesi)

/ˈd͡ʒiːˌzʌs/

From Middle English Jhesus, Iesus, from Latin Iēsūs, from Ancient Greek Ἰησοῦς (Iēsoûs), from Biblical Hebrew יֵשׁוּעַ (yēšū́aʿ), a contracted form of יְהוֹשֻׁעַ (yəhōšúaʿ, “Joshua”). The form יֵשׁוּעַ (yēšū́aʿ) is attested in some of the later books of the Hebrew Bible (Ezra–Nehemiah), and translated as Jeshua or Yeshua in some English editions (the former appearing in the King James Version). The Greek texts make no distinction between Jesus and Joshua, referring to them both as Ἰησοῦς (Iēsoûs). In the Wycliffe Bible (Middle English), the forms used are Jhesus and Jhesu.

Sister of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary

For the Son of God, Christ Jesus, is Head of the Church; and can the Body doe any thing well, if the Head direct it not?

1621 June 19, William Laud, “Sermon preached before His Majesty”, in Seven Sermons Preached Upon Severall Occasions […], page 10:

Mohammed always announced his religion as the religion of Abraham, of Moses, and of Jesus.

1873, Syed Ameer Ali, A Critical Examination of the Life and Teachings of Mohammed, page 195:

I find that writing helps my praying, whether it is writing poetry or more conversational journaling with Jesus. I used to feel compelled to write on a scheduled basis (for example, once a week for my journaling or a poem every time I went to the Japanese Garden), but now I have let go of that compulsion and write when it seems right.

1989, James McGinnis, “Peacemaking and Prayer”, in Journey into Compassion: A Spirituality for the Long Haul, Institute for Peace and Justice; Meyer-Stone, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 36:

She’s right! Omarosa is right there! Also, I’m pretty sure the original titles of the New and Old Testament were Jesus Said This and Jesus Ain’t Say That.

2018 March 18, “Mike Pence”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 5, episode 5, John Oliver (actor), via HBO:

Baháʼí Baháʼí

Jesus of Nazareth, a first-century Jewish religious preacher and craftsman (commonly understood to have been a carpenter) from Galilee held to be a prophet, teacher, the son of God, and the Messiah, or Christ, in Christianity; also called "Jesus Christ" by Christians. Held to be a prophet by Muslims and Baháʼís. Also called "the historical Jesus" from a historiographic viewpoint or a secular one.


Tetragrammaton

en-noun

Tetragrammaton (plural Tetragrammata or Tetragrammatons)

Tetragrammata (plural)
Tetragrammatons (plural)

From Ancient Greek τετραγράμματον (tetragrámmaton, “four-letter word”), neuter gender of τετραγράμματος (tetragrámmatos, “having four letters”), formed from a combining form of τέτταρες (téttares, “four”) and γράμμα (grámma, “letter”).

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τετραγράμματον

The starting point of this discussion was Origen’s much-debated comment to Psalm 2:2 concerning the Tetragrammaton in “ancient” Hebrew characters. A very approximate terminus a quo for this practice in LXX texts is the first century b. c. e., the date of the Cairo Papyrus Fouad 266, a revision of the Greek Torah from the second century b. c. e., in which the Tetragrammata are written in square Hebrew characters.

1971, Jonathan P. Siegel, “The Employment of Palaeo-Hebrew Characters for the Divine Names at Qumran in the Light of Tannaitic Sources”, in Hebrew Union College Annual, volume 42, page 160:

The Tetragrammatons are written out in such a way that the names of single letters are inscribed.

According to to R. Nehemiah, the double Tetragrammaton is one of Metatron’s 70 names: In gematria the consonants YHWH WHYH amount to 52. The two Tetragrammata do not leave any doubt as to the divine nature of the entities referenced here.

2007, Moshe Idel, Ben: Sonship and Jewish Mysticism, Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, page 202:

A few coins and medals with Tetragrammata are found from the Netherlands at the end of the 16th century, but most are from the 17th century, with examples from Denmark, Sweden, and Switzerland, as well as proud towns in the Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Hamburg, Magdeburg) and several from Saxony.

2015, Robert J. Wilkinson, “The Tetragrammaton in Vernacular Bibles, Popular Print, and Illustration”, in Tetragrammaton: Western Christians and the Hebrew Name of God: From the Beginnings to the Seventeenth Century, Leiden, S.H., Boston, Mass.: Brill, →ISBN, part 3 (The Rediscovery of the Name), page 377:

יהוה יהוה#Hebrew

(Judaism) The word in four Hebrew letters יהוה (in transliteration as YHWH or JHVH) used as the ineffable name of God in the Hebrew Bible, variously rendered as Yahweh or Jehovah.

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the four Hebrew letters י-ה-ו-ה, used as the ineffable name of God

הַשֵּׁם הַמְפוֹרָשׁ m (haššēm hamfōrāš, literally “the explicit name”)


God

→ Pohnpeian: Koht

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew-
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰutós?
Proto-Germanic *gudą
Proto-West Germanic *god
Old English god
Middle English god
Middle English God
English God
Derived from Middle English God. See god.

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Dawn believes in God, but Willow believes in multiple gods and goddesses.

Hee that loueth not, knoweth not God: for God is loue

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 John 4:8:

God is loue, and hee that dwelleth in loue, dwelleth in God, and God in him.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 John 4:16:

...God, the All-gracious, the All-good, the All-bountiful, the All-mighty, the All-merciful God...

1741, [Samuel Richardson], Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded. […], 3rd edition, volume II, London: […] C[harles] Rivington, […]; and J. Osborn, […], →OCLC, page 388:

The Muéddin: God is great, there is no God but God.

1911, Katharine Harris Bradley as Michael Field, Accuser, page 158

This is a sad time for all people. We have suffered a loss that cannot be weighed. For me, it is a deep personal tragedy. I know that the world shares the sorrow that Mrs. Kennedy and her family bear. I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help — and God's.

1971 [1963 November 22], Lyndon Johnson, “The Beginning”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 17:

He (n.b.: a Muslim) has told me that he will not allow one person’s actions to stop him from praying to his God.

Paragraph 73, R v Brenton Harrison Tarrant (Sentencing remarks) ([2020] NZHC 2192)

All this will culminate in a final showdown in Israel between the true Lord (Jehovah) God of Israel and the false god (Allah) of Mecca (the center of pagan idolatry in Arabia, at the Kaaba) […]

2011, Steve Urick, Practical Christian Living, →ISBN, page 214:

The first deity of various theistic religions, and the only deity in the Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

God sent Jesus to earth to be the King of the Jews; that is, the one to tell them what they should do. […] I will tell you why God let Jesus die upon the cross.

1899, The Sunday School Journal, page 378:

(Trinitarian Christianity) God the Father as distinguished from Jesus Christ, God the Son.


God

A God there is, that guyds the Globe, and framde the fyckle Spheare.

1563, Barnabe Googe, Eglogs, Epytaphes, and Sonettes, sig. Cviiiv

1911, Katharine Harris Bradley as Michael Field, Accuser, p. 158

Perhaps this... must involve a relationship with a God of truth—and of love, of mercy, of justice.

1960 April 25, advertisement in Life, p. 125

Whoever said that there isn't a God is full of shit!

2009, Nick Cave, The Death of Bunny Munro, page 68:

A being such as a monotheistic God: a single divine creator and ruler of the universe.

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ʾƎgziʾäbəḥer


God

God, is this because of the "I don't love you anymore" T-shirt I bought? It was a joke!

Admiral Anderson: God... feels like years since I just sat down.

2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel (Priority: Earth):

Short for oh God: expressing annoyance or frustration.


Jah

So [...] he say a prayer of thanks because Jah know.

2022, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, When We Were Birds, Hamish Hamilton, page 13:


Lord

en-proper noun

Lord (countable and uncountable, plural Lords)

See lord.
In reference to the God of the Jewish Tanakh and Christian Bible, originally a translation (attested from the late Old English form hlāford) of the Vulgate Latin Dominus (“master of a house; lord”), translating the New Testament and the Septuagint's Ancient Greek ὁ κύριος or Κύριος (ó kýrios, "the supreme one; Lord, Kyrios"), both in reference to Hebrew אֲדֹנָי (ʾdny, "my lord; my Lord, Adonai") from אדון (ʾdwn, "lord, patron; Lord") + י- (-y, "my"), cognate with Phoenician 𐤀𐤃𐤍 (ʾdn, "lord; Lord, Adon"). Adonai appears in the Tanakh both directly and as a euphemism read aloud during occurrences of the Tetragrammaton יהוה (YHWH, "I Am that I Am; Jehovah"). See the usage notes below. Displaced the earlier term Drighten.

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en:the Abrahamic deity, either nontrinitarian or trinitarian

The Abrahamic deity of the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic faiths.

(Judaism, Islam) The God of Abraham and the Jewish scriptures.

Some trust in charets, and some in horses: but wee will remember the Name of the Lord our God.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 20:7:

en:God the Father, within the trinitarian Abrahamic deity

(Christianity) God the Father; the Godhead.

Therfore I doe you to vnderſtand that no má ſpeaking in the Spirit of God, ſaith anáthema to IESVS. And no man can ſay, Our Lord IESVS: but in the holy Ghoſt.

1582, Douay–Rheims Bible, 1 Corinth. 12:3

How loyal in the following of thy Lord!

1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, (please specify |part=Prologue or Rpilogue, or |canto=I to CXXIX):

(Christianity) Jesus Christ, God the Son.


Trinity

He speaks distinctly of the Trinity of the godhead in the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.

1836, Thomas Robbins, A Discourse on the Doctrine of the Trinity, page 17:

From all eternity Jesus Christ existed, and Jesus Christ was with God the Father, the first person of the Trinity; and Jesus Christ was God the Son, the second person of the Trinity.

1846, John Wilson, Scripture Proofs and Scriptural Illustrations of Unitarianism, page 149:

(Christianity) In Christian belief, the three persons (personae) of the Godhead: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

drie-eenheid

Christianity: three persons of the Godhead


Vishnu

Transliteration of Sanskrit विष्णु (viṣṇu).

translit

(Hinduism) One of the Trimurti (trinity) in Hindu mythology, and the most venerated god in Hinduism.

A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.


Brahman

Borrowed from Sanskrit ब्रह्मन् (bráhman).

(Hinduism) The unchanging, infinite, immanent, and transcendent reality which is the Divine Ground of all matter, energy, time, space, being, and everything beyond in this Universe. The nature of Brahman is described as transpersonal, personal and impersonal by different philosophical schools.


Holy Trinity

From Middle English holy Trinitee, a partial translation of earlier hali þrumnesse, haliʒ ðrymnesse (“holy trinity”, literally “holy threeness”), from Old English hālgu þrines. Equivalent to holy + Trinity.

(Christianity) The three persons of the Godhead: the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.


Word

Semantic loan from Koine Greek λόγος (lógos).

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In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

And so the Word had breath, and wrought
With human hands the creed of creeds
In loveliness of perfect deeds,
More strong than all poetic thought; […]

1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XXXVI, page 56:


Heavenly Father

For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 6:14:

Երկնային Հայր

A formal name for the Judeo-Christian God


Demiurge

/ˈdɛmɪˌɝd͡ʒ/

From Ancient Greek Δημιουργός (Dēmiourgós), see demiurge.

For the rest, we meet in the Demiurge of the Valentinians all the traits of the world-god with which we have by now become familiar and can therefore deal here very briefly

2001, Hans Jonas, The Gnostic Religion: The message of the alien God, page 191:

(Gnosticism) A prideful, inferior being that creates the material world; frequently identified with the creator God of the Hebrew Bible.


Elohim

From Hebrew אֱלֹהִים/אֱלוֹהִים (ʾélôhím, “god(s), heavenly power”), plural of אֱלוֹהַּ (ʾélôah, “god”), often taken to be an expanded form of אֵל (ʾēl, “god”) (whence El).

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Hebrew אֱלֹהִים

Elohim (Elohim)
 I shall not forgive
 Adonai (Adonai)
 I shall not forgive
 Living God (Living God)
 I shall not the forgive
 Jesus Christ (Jesus Christ)
 I forgive Thee not

2018, “God = Dog”, performed by Behemoth:

Latter-day Saint
Latter-day Saint#English

(Judaism) God; the name used for God in Hebrew scriptures, and used for the Father by Latter-day Saints.


Adonai

/əˈdəʊ.neɪˌʌɪ/

From Hebrew אֲדֹנָי (ādônay, “My Lord”); used in place of the Tetragrammaton YHWH as a name of the deity of abrahamic religion during prayer recitation.

This not the last empire to crumble / I bore witness to rise and fall of tribes of Adonai / And I have fallen short of a glory of God

(Judaism, Christianity) The Lord: a Hebrew title of God.


Flying Spaghetti Monster

the Flying Spaghetti Monster (canonical)

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I and many others around the world are of the strong belief that the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster.

2005 January, Bobby Henderson, “Open Letter To Kansas School Board”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

Is the super-intelligent, super-popular god known as the Flying Spaghetti Monster any match for the prophets of intelligent design?

2005 August 29, Sarah Boxer, “But Is There Intelligent Spaghetti Out There?”, in New York Times, →ISSN, retrieved 2011-10-28:

And now, the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM) is demanding equal teaching time for its theory that the world was created by an FSM.

2006 May 24, Jack Huberman, “#75: Kansas State Board of Education”, in 101 People Who Are Really Screwing America, Nation Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, LCC P95.82.U6 H83 2006, page 76:

A popular deity on the Internet at present — and as undisprovable as Yahweh or any other — is the Flying Spaghetti Monster, who, many claim, has touched them with his noodly appendage.

2006 September 18, Richard Dawkins, “The God Hypothesis”, in The God Delusion, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, →LCCN, LCC BL2775.3.D39 2006, page 76:

Call it what you want — God, Buddha, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Prime Mover Unmoved. The totality of everything. I don't care.

2008 April 29, Neil Gaiman with Michael Reeves, InterWorld, 1st edition, New York: HarperCollins, →ISBN, →LCCN, LCC PZ7.G1273 Int 2007, page 73:

All rooms, no matter how tough, have someone who hates you the least. Even if you're a Flying Spaghetti Monster disciple speaking at the Vatican, someone in that room will hate you less than everyone else.

2009 October, Scott Berkun, “How to work a tough room”, in Confessions of a Public Speaker, 1st edition, Sebastapol: O'Reilly, →ISBN, →LCCN, LCC PN4129.15.B47 2010, page 51:

(humorous) A deity consisting of spaghetti and meatballs, the creator of the universe according to the religion of Pastafarianism.


God willing

absolute construction; comparable to the phrase (if) God be willing.

God willing, we'll meet again same time next year.

See y'all again same time next year, God willing.

And what so poor a man as Hamlet is May do, to express his love and friending to you, God willing, shall not lack.

1602, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince God willing,of Denmark:

(often as disjunct) Barring unforeseen circumstances, it is hoped that (while generally also indicating acceptance of God's will).

神の思し召しがあれば

かみのおぼしめしがあれば

اَللّٰہ چاہے

"Allah" can be replaced with any term relating to God


praise the Lord

A present subjunctive clause inherited intact from a time when English was freely productive of them. It is semantically equivalent to praise be to God. The zero morph difference from the imperative form allows parsing as a command synchronically.

A phrase used to thank God by Christians.

cultural Christian
cultural Christian#English

Expression of thankful happiness; not always literally religious when used by cultural Christians, but not explicitly differentiable, thus ambiguous.

“There was a time when the homosexual demanded marriage,” he added with an exasperated chuckle. “Praise the Lord, that time is past. PRAISE THE LORD!” he commanded.

2021, Truscott Jones, chapter 1, in For the Common Good: What Happens When the Powerful Get Desperate?, Saint Petersburg, Fla.: BookLocker, →ISBN, page 8:

(UK, mildly blasphemous) Stereotypical exclamation used in mockery of Christianity.


Sabaoth

/səˈbeɪˌoʊθ/

From Latin, from Ancient Greek Σαβαώθ (Sabaṓth), from Biblical Hebrew צבאות (tsabāʾōθ), plural of צבא (tsābāʾ).

(Judaism, Christianity, biblical) An epithet of God in His role as protector of the Israelite army, usually translated (alongside YHWH or Elohim) as "Lord of Hosts".; compare the archaic title Drighten.


YHWH

At the very least, the phraseology provides a clear linguistic marker, that the following section should not be read simply as an account of the Chaoskampf of the warrior YHWH battling the forces of chaos.

1993, James Nogalski, Redactional Processes in the Book of the Twelve, De Gruyter, page 166:

The deity worshipped in Abrahamitic religions, Yahweh, called Adonai in Judaism due to a taboo on using the full name, and God and the Lord in Christianity.


skydaddy

Go on, believe your little book, let it tell you what to do, and when things go bad, cry to your skydaddy, I don't give a fuck.

1998, "Alexander Carlton", Random Thoghts VIII v. 2.1 (on Internet newsgroup rec.music.hip-hop)

No, actually, I'm a sex addict. But at least that's not as bad as being addicted to imaginary skydaddies. :)

2000, Nat, “Get high on God”, in alt.religion.christian-teen (Usenet):

We as intelligent beings have determined all of known time right up to .000001 seconds to the beginning. Give those in the search a little time, and the answer will be there. Problem is, those with beliefs in skydaddies won't accept it. And they still have a hold on you.

2001, Bob Simmons, “Questions Theists Ask Me”, in talk.religion.misc (Usenet):

(derogatory slang) Alternative form of sky daddy: a god; God.


FSM

en-noun

FSM (countable and uncountable, plural FSMs)

finite-state machine
finite-state machine#English

(countable, computing) Initialism of finite-state machine.


sky daddy

From sky + daddy, originally in reference to the Christian conception of God the Father resident in Heaven.

For starters, having an ideology that explicitly denies the existence of an invisible sky daddy is a bit of a handicap when it comes to assimilating the idea of nightmarish immortal aliens from elsewhere in the multiverse, given that the NIAs in question have historically been identified as gods (subtype: elder).

2010, Charles Stross, The Fuller Memorandum (Laundry Files), New York: Penguin, →ISBN, →LCCN, LCC PR6119.T79 F85 2010, page 81:

An invisible sky daddy didn’t save all those Chilean miners; real people with science and technology got it done!

2010 October 14, “Well Said”, in The Good Atheist, archived from the original on 2011-09-08:

Nature isn’t some sky daddy, it’s what makes up reality by definition.

2011 November 9, Matt Bush, “Nature doesn’t care about us”, in In which I wax acerbic, archived from the original on 2011-11-30:

In the book of fairy tales and myths, a big magical sky daddy delivers the populace his own flesh and blood to get horribly slain so that his resurrected son can become your imaginary bearded hippie-friend.

2011, E. A. St. Amant, The New Ancien Régime, →ISBN, page 79:

“Magic!” said Billy, clapping his hands with delight. “I talked to my sky daddy. He made a magic dream in your heart.”

2011, John Leonard Köehler, Billy Blue Sky:

(slang) A god, especially (derogatory, offensive) God the Father.


Yahuwah

Vocalization of the Hebrew Tetragrammaton (יהוה) peculiar to some religious movements.


Waheguru

(religion, Sikhism) God as conceived by Sikhism.


please God

absolute construction; comparable to the phrase (if) it (should/might) please God (present subjunctive mood); apt to be reanalyzed by many listeners today as if vocative/direct address (e.g., please God grant, in second person and imperative mood), but absolute and subjunctive in origin.


Sky Fairy

From sky + fairy, in reference to the usual conception of the Abrahamic God as a supernatural being resident in Heaven.

Because theists are forgiven by the Sky Fairy. So they can be as bad as they wanna be.

2007 October 25, ScottyFLL [username], “Re: Dr. Francis Collins on The Colbert Report”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):

... other than the fact that they have different names for the Sky Fairy?

2010 June 29, Major Debacle [username], “What's the difference between the Taliban and the Christian right?”, in alt.religion.christian (Usenet):

Which is pretty much the tantamount to saying the Sky Fairy sent the tsunami to punish man's wickedness, i.e utter nonsense.

2011 March 11, Kevin N, “Re: OT: Monster Quake and Tsunami in Pacific”, in rec.music.classical.recordings (Usenet):

(derogatory slang, possibly offensive) Synonym of God, particularly the Abrahamic God.


by Allah

From Arabic الله (allāh, “the deity, God”). Compare by God.

“Oh!” said the King, “by Allah! but vengeance is an inspiriting pleasure!”

1878, Mariana Monteiro, Allah-Akbar. God is Great, page 101:

(Islam) An exclamation of surprise or excitement, oh my God! good Lord!


onomatodoxy

Borrowed from Russian ономатодо́ксия (onomatodóksija), from Ancient Greek ὄνομα (ónoma, “name”) + δόξα (dóxa, “glory”), meaning “name-glorification”. Compare Russian имясла́вие (imjaslávije).

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ономатодо́ксия

(Eastern Orthodoxy) The doctrine that the name of God is God himself.


onomatodox

(Eastern Orthodoxy) Relating to, supporting or advocating onomatodoxy.


universal mind

Is it reasonable to give up the wisdom and righteousness of the universal mind, to contradict our clearest notions of things, and to acknowledge errors in the administration of the Deity, notwithstanding innumerable appearances in the frame of the world of his infinite power and perfection, rather than receive a plain, easy, and natural supposition, which is suggested to us in innumerable ways, which mankind in all ages have received, and which is agreeable to all our best sentiments and wishes?

1787, Richard Price, A Review of the Principal Questions in Morals, page 262:

The old saying that all is not gold which glitters, is true in respect to most of the prevailing systems of christianity in which the outside glitter and superficial tinsel will be found the device of man, while craft has cast a veil over that which is really the work of God. The web of mystery and the gewgaw of ceremony have been employed to obscure the moral lustre of the gospel. The grovelling wit of man has been substituted for the unspotted irradiations of the universal mind.

1807, Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, “Eichhorn's Introduction to the New Testament”, in The Critical Review of Annals of Literature, volume X, number V, London, page 450:

The Mind, which is God, is pushing out into what man calls his mind.Our power to know comes from this Universal mind.

1965, Muriel Noyes Gillchrest, The Power of Universal Mind, page 196:


Eye of Providence

en-proper noun

Eye of Providence (plural Eyes of Providence)

A symbol of an eye usually enclosed in a triangle, representing the eye of God.

Olho da Providência

a symbol of an eye usually enclosed in a triangle