God Is Simply Good Shortened
Illustration★★The very name God is a wonderful treasure-house, full of most precious love-thoughts, when we understand its meaning and history. When the old Anglo- Saxons were converted to Christianity, they sought for some word in their own language which would express the character of the divine Being as revealed to them in the Bible. They thought of his kindness, his mercy, his forgiveness, his patience, his love, and asked, “What name will best express these attributes?” And so they called him Good; and that is the origin of the name we use to-day. It is simply good shortened into God. What a wondrous treasure-mine it is! Anon.
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The point
Claims that when the Anglo-Saxons sought a word to express God's kindness, mercy, and love as revealed in Scripture, they called Him 'Good,' the supposed origin of the English word 'God.'