A curious question --

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1236153#Comment_1236153

how many hours a day do you spend actually studying God's word?

I prefer to think in terms of how many hours a day I spend living God's Word.

Jerry Bush

how many hours a day do you spend actually studying God's word?

I prefer to think in terms of how many hours a day I spend living God's Word.

MJ for the win! Better answer than I could have come up with.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1236157#Comment_1236157

how many hours a day do you spend actually studying God's word?

I prefer to think in terms of how many hours a day I spend living God's Word.

MJ for the win! Better answer than I could have come up with.

I couldn’t agree more! What’s the point of all those hours of study if you don’t live the word 👍😁👌

xnman

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1236170#Comment_1236170

And here I am thinking.... it is God's word that tells us how to live and without it we don't know how to live.....

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1236189#Comment_1236189

Hint: why do I capitalize Word and you do not?

xnman

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1236192#Comment_1236192

Hint: why do I capitalize Word and you do not?

ummm ..... because my little pinky on my left hand is lazy and yours is not?? [;)] [:D] [:)] [8-|]

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1236195#Comment_1236195

Word or word, same thing. Here’s an interesting and enlightening article: https://www.logos.com/grow/why-we-should-not-capitalize-deity-pronouns-when-referring-to-god/

Similar to the dilemma surrounding some churches of Christ when praying 🙏 Some want you to use thee‘s and thou’s not you’s.

I say either way it’s 1000% good enough W or w or thee, thou and you 👍😁👌

DAL

DMB

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1236258#Comment_1236258

Some want you to use thee‘s and thou’s not you’s.

Well, sure. I can't imagine using a 'you'. Hello.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1236269#Comment_1236269

Some want you to use thee‘s and thou’s not you’s.

Well, sure. I can't imagine using a 'you'. Hello.

😂 👌

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1236258#Comment_1236258

Word or word, same thing.

Interesting, I need to think about it. Certainly, catholic and Catholic are used with a difference in meaning.

Wolfgang Schneider

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1236287#Comment_1236287

Word or word, same thing.

Interesting, I need to think about it. Certainly, catholic and Catholic are used with a difference in meaning.

This "capitalizing" words to attach special meaning is most likely peculiar to English and not found in other languages such as German where nouns are always capitalized. It's the context, not necessarily a particular way of spelling, which gives a word its meaning.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1236258#Comment_1236258

Here’s an interesting and enlightening article: https://www.logos.com/grow/why-we-should-not-capitalize-deity-pronouns-when-referring-to-god/

Interesting article.

A quote from it: "I’m not aware of any problems caused today by the nomina sacra: we certainly know how to pronounce Jesus"

I know one particular Logos user active on these forums who would disagree with this. He spells it in a peculiar way to be sure it is pronounced the way he thinks it should be. (Just engaging in a bit of kabuki [;)])

Another capitalization question: do people capitalize "Bible" in all instances when it is referring to the sacred Christian texts, or only when it is being used as a proper noun, the title of the book (e.g., the Holy Bible)? I find myself moving towards not capitalizing it when it's being used generically, as in "There are bibles in the pew racks" but only when it is prefaced with the definite article as a title ("the Bible") or particular version (Lexham English Bible). And I don't capitalize "biblical". There's some discussion of that here: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/523159/is-there-a-trend-toward-not-capitalizing-the-word-bible

That leads to the question of whether to capitalize "the": is it "The Bible" or "the Bible"? https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/275226/capitalization-of-the-in-the-bible. I go with the latter.

There have also been moves to stop capitalizing Christians or the adjective Christian (ditto for other names/adjectives of religious groups). I've seen that in some scholarly journals as an intentional choice (can't find any examples right now). I don't care for that trend.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1236290#Comment_1236290

Word or word, same thing.

Interesting, I need to think about it. Certainly, catholic and Catholic are used with a difference in meaning.

This "capitalizing" words to attach special meaning is most likely peculiar to English and not found in other languages such as German where nouns are always capitalized. It's the context, not necessarily a particular way of spelling, which gives a word its meaning.

Other examples in English where capitalizing changes the meaning of the word:

church vs. Church

church - the building, or a general term about some unspecified church or churches

the Church - referring to the whole body of Christ, or a particular expression of it (whose name is omitted when the context is obvious) such as the Catholic Church.

always capitalized when it's part of a particular church's name - e.g., First Baptist Church

god vs. God

god - a general term for any deity

God - the specific deity of most monotheistic religions (though some have a different name for God, such as Allah)

There is actually a term for such words that change their meaning when they are capitalized: capitonym (there's a list of English examples at that Wikipedia page).

Though those are quite rare in other languages besides English, they are not entirely nonexistent. For example, in German, Laut = sound, and laut = loud.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1236318#Comment_1236318

In Spanish if it’s a proper noun it’s Dios (God), but if it’s a common noun, then it’s dios (god). Biblia is to refer to the Christian’s Sacred text, but biblia would be for none sacred like the “generator bible.”
So maybe it depends on the grammatical rules of a given language? 🤔 I, personally, don’t make a big deal out of it. When my pinky gets tires and the shift key didn’t engage properly I just leave it as is. As mentioned above, context makes a difference.

DAL

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1236287#Comment_1236287

Word or word, same thing.

Interesting, I need to think about it. Certainly, catholic and Catholic are used with a difference in meaning.

Or as DMB has mentioned in the past — church of Christ vs Church of Christ. The argument I’ve heard is “you do not make the church equal to Christ!” And apparently some people take this very seriously.

DAL

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1236332#Comment_1236332

In Tibetan there is no such thing as a capital letter ... only block vs. cursive [8-|] While it is interesting that they are called capitonyms, it is rather a long way from the theology logical hint that I used a capital for Word, while xnman did not. Which in itself is a long way from the original purpose of the thread which was a measure of time spent studying the word (without a capital).

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1236338#Comment_1236338

And in Greek and Latin there used to be only one case. Greek "developed the letter case distinction between uppercase and lowercase in parallel with Latin during the modern era." Some with Cyrillic, though the differentiation between cases is much less pronounced than in the Latin alphabet, which we use for English.

xnman

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1236342#Comment_1236342

the etymology certainly does change over the years....

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1236344#Comment_1236344

the etymology certainly does change over the years....

Huh? I don't understand.

Sean

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1236287#Comment_1236287

Word or word, same thing.

Interesting, I need to think about it. Certainly, catholic and Catholic are used with a difference in meaning.

When I was writing my theses, the trend in academia was to stop capitalizing nearly everything. Trying for consistency in that (difficult to attain) forced some interesting choices. I would not capitalize catholic or protestant, and consistency led me to not capitalize pentecostal either, though that felt stranger as the word is derived from a holiday, which should still be capitalized. Calvinism and Arminianism were still capitalized though because they were derived from the names of individuals.

That was over 10 years ago; I'm not sure what the fashion is today.

To answer the OP: typically 1-3 hours a day, although more of that would be in commentaries and theological texts than directly in the Bible itself. Sermon prep might require more; the day of delivering the sermon will result in rather less. For context I'm a former professor of theology turned mega-church pastor.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1236373#Comment_1236373

the etymology certainly does change over the years....

Huh? I don't understand.

I think he was replying to another thread.

DAL