Isn't to be a Christian a violation of the first commandment?

Question

Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

Jesus is worshipped as God.Yet even in the Bible he was a seperate entity.When God told Mary she would have a child it was to be his son.Hence seperate as in not himself.When Jesus spoke to God he did not speak to himself.He adressed the father.Hence he identified that God was seperate.He said, "nobody may get to the father but by me" or something along those lines.Hence he again identified the father as a seperate being.When he was on the cross he said to the father, "forgive them father for they know not what they do".Hence again he identified the father as seperate and even asked the father for a favor the he could not grant or he wouldn't have asked.

So, he is seperate and thus is another God to be worshipped.Right?Also, the trinity also is in contradiction to the first commandment as well since even the trinity tries to identify three as one when the first commandment doesn't say "thou shalt have no other God but the three me's"

Answer 1

Christianity is in violation of the first TWO commandments:
"I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
you shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an image, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or worship them..."
... The Jewish idea of God is that God is One and Indivisible. We cannot divide God up into separate parts, where each part of God is UnEqual to each of the other parts, but somehow they are one and the same. The Hebrew Scriptures describes God as an absolute One, but the Christian's New Testament describes the Christian idea of God as divisible into three parts called a trinity. In the Christian's New Testament, Jesus at one point claims to have different knowledge than other parts of the Christian Trinity. For example, Matthew 24:36 or Mark 13:32. In another verse, Jesus does not have the same power as other parts of the Christian Trinity, for example, Luke 23:34. And in Matthew 26:42, Jesus's will is not the same as the will of the Father. Indeed, Jesus often contrasted himself with the Father, for example, in John 14:28, or Luke 18:19. Furthermore, Jesus supposedly said that the punishment for blaspheming against one part of the Trinity is not the same punishment for blaspheming against another part of the Trinity. In the Hebrew Scriptures, however, God is One, as we read in Deuteronomy 6:4, as well as in Isaiah 44:6, where God tells us, "I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God." When Isaiah tells us that God said, "I am the first," it means that God has no father. When Isaiah tells us that God said, "I am the last," it means that God has no literal son. And when Isaiah tells us that God said, "Besides me there is no God," it means that God does not share being God with any other god, or demi-god, or semi-god, or persons, and there is no trinity.

Answer 2

It's all in how you read it.
People have been debating this issue since before the time of Christ (interestingly), and there are valid arguments on both sides. Ultimately it is a matter of faith.

Objections include: Jesus claimed true ontological union with the Father, the New Testament applies the Septuagint "Kyrios" (Yahwei) to Jesus, the Hebrew grammar implies unity out of multiplicity, the New Testament identifies Jesus as God (Theos or Elohiym) in the same books that you use to illustrate a difference between Jesus and God, Jesus was positited as the uncreated equivalent of the Jewish Metatron (the pre-Incarnate Logos), when God spoke to Moses an angel actually said "I am that I am," the word God in Hebrew is almost always plural (Elohiym), Jewish theologians identified the expected Messiah with God (because of the plurality expressed in the Old Testament), Jesus is identified as the Ancient of Days (Yahwei) in the New Testament, etc.

Answer 3

Think of it this way, God is one and all three at the same time. How is this done? Well, look at how God created us in his image. A woman can be a mother, a sister, an aunt, and a cousin yet she's just one woman. She has many different positions, responsibilities, and authority and is able to operate in them all at once or one at a time. God is the Father, The Son, and the Holy Spirit. The only difference between God and humans is that God is able to separate Himself to complete His will. God is all powerful! He can be the Father in Heaven as He is also Himself the Son and the Holy Spirit for the purpose of giving His gift of Salvation to those who would believe Him and then to be a guide in the believers life. I firmly believe that if God could not go far above our abilities as human beings He couldn't be God. Besides, everything about God has yet to be revealed and there are some things that the most committed of Christians will not know until we are in heaven with Him. That is where faith comes in and for me that's just fine and dandy!

Answer 4

The first commandment is referring to things like your job or a fake god made of stone or something. Some religions worship the earth itself, the moon, the stars and the planets instead of the one who created them.

Jesus IS God. He's part of the Trinity St. Patrick explained it like this.
Look at the three leaf clover. Thats how the Trinity is.
There's three parts but they build up one God.
LIke a three story building.
There's three different floors but only one building.
Or the government and its 3 branches, executive branch, judicial and, legislatvie, They all are one.
Thats how Jesus is God. Because he's in the Trinity He's a part of God

Answer 5

Good question. As I said before, Jesus God and The Holy Spirit are the same. Just like a Husband, father, and Boss are the same person. Just different names. Jesus is God and he is also His Son. So, we are worshiping just One God. I know it sounds complicated but if you read the Bible and researched the passages, you would understand. Try it. Thanks for the question and have a Great Day!

Answer 6

To be a Christian is to worship God the Father, just as Christ did, so no it is not a violation of the 1st of the ten commandments. Yes, I agree with the rest of your statement that God the Father is a separate being from Jesus in the sense that they have their own bodies/spirits, in a sense just as you or I do, but they are one in purpose.

Answer 7

I'm a Christian and found your question interesting. I'm sure it's an old one, but still interesting. I have always had a hard time with this subject, not causing me to disbelieve, but to know more about God. I think every Christian has struggled with this issue.

Answer 8

Jesus is "god the SON" - in other words one of the trinity.

In other words Jesus was God on earth.

Personally, I would be more inclined to listen to the message, rather than books & dogma. But them.....I'm a Buddhist :-)

Answer 9

John 14:6
Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.

Matthew 11:27
“My Father has entrusted everything to me. No one truly knows the Son except the Father, and no one truly knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.”

John 5:21-23
For just as the Father gives life to those he raises from the dead, so the Son gives life to anyone he wants. In addition, the Father judges no one. Instead, he has given the Son absolute authority to judge, so that everyone will honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. Anyone who does not honor the Son is certainly not honoring the Father who sent him.
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the verses in John 5 are pretty clear

Answer 10

In the beginning was the word..and the word was with God..and the word WAS GOD....Jesus is the word so the answer to your question.....NO