Word of God
See also: word of God
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Etymology edit
From Middle English worde of god, wurde of god, variant of Middle English godes word, Godes word (“Word of God”, literally “God's word”), from Old English Godes word (“Word of God”). Compare West Frisian Wurd fan God, Dutch Woord van God.
Proper noun edit
- A sacred teaching, writing or book viewed as being the work of God.
- 2009, Fateh Ullah Khan, God Created the Universe with the Purpose to Serve Humankind, →ISBN, page 309:
- This leads to a far reaching conclusion, proving that Quran is the Word of God Who exists
- (Christianity) The Logos, or God the Son.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 1:1:
- In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
- (fandom slang) The creator(s) of a media franchise and/or their extradiegetic revelations about plot, characters, etc.
- 2012 February 29, Karolina Dean...Big money weave a mighty web, “Screwed by the Network”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling[3] (Usenet):
- ABC screwed over My Wife and Kids by cancelling it after the creators had already been promised another season, thus ending the series on a cliffhanger as a result(though Word Of God's explanation for what would've happened next season lessens the blow somewhat).
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sacred teaching, writing or book viewed as the work of God
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