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Who gets to define what “God” and other controversial words mean?

I’ve spent quite some time looking into philosophy over the past few months. I’ve read quite a few Stanford Encyclopedia articles and I read AC Grayling’s book on the History of Philosophy. 

As an atheist myself, I can’t help but feel that a huge amount of disagreement in society, the God debate and philosophy as a whole is just caused by confusion about what words mean.

You see this in society with debates about what Gender and Sex mean. But this also comes up in the God debate with disagreement over what “God” even means.

Learning about stuff like this definitely gives me much more respect for dictionaries as they have to find ways to resolve these conflicts 

Thus my questions are these:

1) Who gets to define what God means? Is it really just Christian philosophers who get final say?

2) Who gets to define what controversial words mean in general?

3) Do dictionaries get final say over all of this?
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In general, substantive issues rarely -- or perhaps even *by definition* never -- depend on questions of whether to merely stipulate what this word or what that word means. And so this whole question, along with an appeal to dictionaries and so on, is just barking up the wrong tree.

When people dispute gender, for instance, they're not disputing merely what meaning to arbitrarily associated with the string of letters g-e-n-d-e-r, rather they are disputing what's involved with a concept they have that they've been using to navigate certain issues in the world. Consider, for instance, a debate between a Darwinian and a Lamarckian notion of evolution: if we thought this was about merely how to stipulatively define the word 'evolution', we'd have totally lost track of what the Darwinian and the Larmarckian are saying.