The GOD Problem How should the word of God, the God of the Bible, be translated in the Telugu language? The issue is that there is no word in the Telugu language that adequately defines the biblical God as the Ultimate Reality. At first appearance this would seem to be an easy task, after all in Paul Hiebert’s paper, “A Word for God,” it is clear that Ivan from the Union Bible Society and Yesudas, a high-caste convert, have worked out many details in translating the Bible into the Telugu language