Shangdi (Chinese: 上帝; pinyin: Shàngdì; Wade–Giles: Shang 4 Ti 4), also called simply Di (Chinese: 帝; pinyin: Dì; lit. 'God'), [ 1 ] is the name of the Chinese Highest Deity or "Lord …
The Mesha Stele bears the earliest known reference (840 BCE) to the Israelite God Yahweh.. The earliest written form of the Germanic word God comes from the 6th-century Christian Codex …