- Fri, Apr 06, 2012
- Writing
Why don’t you capitalize ‘he’ when referring to God?
The old practice of capitalizing pronouns of deity has been done in very few Bible translations historically, and was abandoned by most Christian publishers years ago. I continued to do it for years but it created inconsistencies since I would capitalize pronouns of deity, then quote Scripture that didn’t. The inconsistency stood out. The only alternative would be to quote from NASB or NKJV, neither of which is my preference.
Of course, I would never agree to Christ or God not being capitalized. But notice that while Heaven is capitalized (since it is an actual place), I don’t ...










