Robin Hood wrote: ↑August 2nd, 2017, 3:16 pm Utterly and completely irrelevant.
We're talking about consistent scriptural rules, to which Joseph Smith adhered.
My advice...... when you're in a hole, stop digging!
I'm sure that this little bit of correct understanding has not escaped your grasp but did you know that there are no capitals in Hebrew. Nope - not a one. So what cha do is you start with William Tyndale and you say Willie, oh Willie boy, we the people need the Word of God in English so's we's can tell when them awful Priests is trying to pull one on us. So Willie, who just happens to be an English scholar, begins to translate. Quite commonly the same word Strong's 430 or Elohim is translated as Elohim and other times it is translated God with a Big "G" and most times it is translated as god little "g". Remembering of course that Willie is doing all of this in a time long after the apostasy has completely altered the true knowledge of God...and his translation is going to jive with the theology he is most comfortable with. Tyndale was not exactly a trinitarian but I don't think we are ready to delve into deeper elements of Tyndale's doctrinal beliefs.
Thus and please observe closely when you go to Genesis 3:13 here is what you will see in a Strong's label scripture source:
3:5 For God 430 doth know 3045 8802 that in the day 3117 ye eat 398 8800 thereof, then your eyes 5869 shall be opened 6491 8738, and ye shall be as gods 430, knowing 3045 8802 good 2896 and evil 7451.
http://www.godrules.net/library/kjvstro ... gsgen3.htm
You might note that in this verse is found the Big G and the little g but the word in Hebrew that occupied both spots was the word we say as Elohim. This is noted by the Strong's number 430 which follows each usage.
This scripture could with perfect integrity be written as below.
3:5 For Elohim doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as Elohim, knowing good and evil.
Or if you prefer:
William, you can just call me Willie, Tyndale who is credited with his translation forming over 70 % of the final King James version had to make a judgement call on whether the text was referring to the supreme being "God" or the general, in his perception and based on his theological preferences, god and being an English Scholar and knowing quite well the grammatical rules for English, those Elohim(s) that he thought referenced the one true God where capitalized while those he thought were the little Elohim(s) he translated as god or angels and a couple of other choices. Each time he came into contact with the word Elohim, he had to make a determination of his own call whether he thought it should be a little g or a big G. A man, just doing the best he knew how according to the best Grammar he could determine decided how the word would be represented in the text of his translation..3:5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil.
Now please come back with something other than "completely irrelevant" as this is the relevant origin of BIG G and little g.
P.S. Because I know you are going to ask this next, Strong's is based on the Hebrew Masoretic Text (Old Testament) with no capitals and no vowel marks for that matter.