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God and the gods

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

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How Do You Use the Terms God?

In english, we'd obviously classify category one, or supreme spirits, like the true god, as a god. The difficulty comes witha two, with the superhuman spirits. When we talk about pagan deities like zeus or apollo, we do speak of them as gods,. But angels like michael and gabriel would also be category two, or superhuman spirits, and we don't talk about them as gods. So, english is quirky. No, but that's not surprising, because it'is a quirky language in a lot of respects. And this is just because of the way that english as a language has historically developed. It's just weird, ok?

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