Is it better to worship Christ, or to seek what Christ sought, and be a Christ yourself?

Question

I suppose I am assuming Christ as man, and actually, I suppose I am asking that we be the man Christ was. If you see him as Lord, who performed supernatural miracles, then that applies a different meaning to this question. All views are valid. I will always prefer objectivity.

Answer 1

Forget the 'church every Sunday' nonsense. Just be a good person, no mater what your religion.

Answer 2

I am answering this as a Christian. This is based on my faith and belief. It doesn't mean others need to subscribe to my interpretation--this is how I live my life.

First, I can not be a Christ. To think I could be Christ is arrogance, and so then I couldn't be him because he was pretty humble. Christ wasn't arrogant. He got a little harsh with the Pharisees but honestly they were Pharisees. That was the language they spoke--people who debate theology and philosophy get that way. If he talked to others he used parable, metaphor and was pretty gentle. So Christ wasn't ARROGANT and I can be arrogant and petty. I can be a down right idiot. So on that alone, I am not Christ. More importantly, I beleive in the the Trinity and Christ is God in my eyes. I have God within me aka the Holy Spirit, but I am not God.

I beleive that " seeking what Christ sought" is worshipping Christ. Living a life the way he told us to--loving others, striving toward social justice, trying to make things right in the world -- it's living belief and a path I seek to take.

So if you are asking "Why go to worship?" I will tell you that I am human, and I sin and mess stuff up. I forget the lessons I learn. Worship helps keep me centered and helps me find vision so I can find my path again to live like Christ. I learn from narrative and auditory words. (I am not a Pharisee) and being in worship I hear some amazing sermons that help me better understand how the Bible applies to me. I also find beauty in music and ritual of praying. Psalms have been read for thousands of years praising the same God. It makes me feel closer to God. In the same regard, I take communion because I feel God's presence, His sacrifice, and I am part of community with Him. He gave His Body and Blood to save all of us from Sin.

Again this is my belief, and how I live my life. Why I do what I do.

Answer 3

I am not sure what you mean by "be a Christ yourself", but leaving that out, you are much better off listening to what he said, and trying to follow it, than worshiping him.

Leaving out the "was he God or not" part, much of what he said makes a lot of sense as a personal philosophy.

He did, in fact, change the way we look at God. There is a world of difference between the old testament and the new one. For that alone, we owe Jesus a lot of thanks.

My personal feeling is Jesus was a manifestation of God on Earth. An aspect of God. There is only one God, and it starts getting confusing when you give it a split personality.

You listen to that manifestation, you learn from it. You worship God. Christians (and I am one) are supposedly monotheistic, though you would never know it.

There is not a "God the Father", and a "God the Son", there is only God. One. Singular.

Well you ask a religious question, you get a religious answer you know...

Answer 4

That depends on your goal. If your goal is to attain Christian salvation, clearly you should worship him.
If, however, your goal is to live a good life, and leave the world at least no worse off than you left it, it is probably better to seek what Christ sought.... that leads, however, to the question "What did Christ seek?" Your answer to that question will change the answer to the first one.
I think perhaps it would be best to do as Christ taught.

Answer 5

I've heard it said that the term christ is a title in some language that means the equivalent to Master, or something.

So I would say the second one, but I have heard the quickest way to become a christ is to do what known christs did

Answer 6

As a Christian, I believe a Christian's ultimate goal is to do both of those. Worship is a response to what we believe Christ has done for us, and so is "being a Christ myself."

Answer 7

Worship Christ and strive to be Christ-like.

Answer 8

We can all be god if we want to. God isn't confined to organised religion. Its better to follow the teachings of Christ than to follow the teachings of those who would follow Christ. Personally I don't think that Christ would even be a 'Christian' if he was alive today.

Answer 9

in my faith i do not worship Christ but i follow his teachings and try to be as close to Christ like as i can be. god says hes a jealous god and put no one before him. but at the same time you must know that we are not worthy to talk to god our selves so we must pray to him in the name of Jesus. always love Honor and respect Christ. with out him we would be lost. we can never be Christ but we can be Christ like.

Answer 10

u cannot be Christ yourself, dude... the only choice you have is to worship Him...

anyways, why do you want to be Christ? interested in shouldering the whole world's sin and be crucified on the cross for that?

if you are sinless, you could try...

Answer 11

Christ did not seek that. He is God manifest in the flesh.... he sought to save man from his sin.