Hello Ann,
The version of the Greek text (as is followed by
the Orthodox Churches) has God with capital G always. Some editions by
modern scholars have God with small G always. Let's see first this
difference.
In the times of the New Testament people used to
write in capital letters. Writing with small and capitals prevailed in the
pass of time, and the word God was being used with capital G, not only in
the start of a sentence, but in the middle too. Modern scholars, working
independently of their beliefs, use small g, not to diminish Christ or the
Father, but just because they know that difference in small/capitals did not
have any importance at the time when New Testament was written. Thus, in
this case, modern scholarship and Church, don't express any distinction in
the deity of Christ and the Father, whether they use small or capital G,
because they use the same for both persons.
The error of Jeh witnesses (deliberate or because
of ignorance) is that they tried to prove you a distinction of the two
persons of the Trinity, based on a literary argument that is not valid. New
Testament was written all in capital letters. The very attempt to persuade
you with such an argument, suggests some interesting things, because it
means that they consider faith as something that can change or vanish
because of a difference in the size of a letter. You too seem to let your
faith be guided by such differences. Faith can not be threatened by this or
that version of the text, but only to the degree that is a faith-of-the-text
precisely, a book-faith, something that characterises Jews and Muslims. Our
faith is not a faith-from-books (and language, even Greek, is not something
sacred and object of worship). Our faith comes from knowing Christ himself
in person, and to know Him is to be loved by Him and wanting to be loved by
Him.
Try to move towards such a faith, and you will
find out if it is true or not. But in case that you will grow a
faith-from-books, you will never have faith, even if you managed to be
absolutely certain about the validity of the text, in letter size, actual
wording, and everything. Because in such a case you would just have an
accurate information that Christ is God and you would be obliged to believe
in Him. Obligation is not faith, it is serfdom.
If He wanted to oblige us, he didn't need any
books to do it, He would just appear before you - and then you would be
certain about Him, even if that was going to kill you, throw you in eternal
Fear. With whatever He sends you day by day, He makes you able to see Him in
His Deity, to the degree that you love Him. To the degree that you don't,
seeing Him not as a servant that He became, but in His Deity, would terrify
you, because in between you and Him, your sins and conscience would stand
accusing you, don't letting you forget about yourself, forget about your
good or sin, and approach Him.
