2007-09-26 04:36:57 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Non of the those say "WORSHIP ME".
sorry, I dont believe GOD would be so evasive in language concerning something so profound.
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2007-09-26 04:46:03 · update #1
Every Prophet and God were "one" and in unison of purpose when it came to the message.
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2007-09-26 04:47:53 · update #2
The Pharisees considered Jesus to be an imposter and blessed are those who believed in Jesus as a Prophet.
Calling one "lord" or "son" in Hebrew did not mean what they are translated into.
Those who believe Jesus was a true messenger of GOD will be rewarded as in comparison to those who denied he was even a Prophet.
Seeing Jesus and believing in him was a great reward and we today who believe he was a great annointed Prophet (Messiah) also get a great reward because we never saw him but we acknowledge his Mission as a PROPHET.
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2007-09-26 04:53:16 · update #3
The Words "WORSHIP ME" cannot be misunderstood like "father, son, lord, we are one etc."
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2007-09-26 04:55:21 · update #4
This is a loaded question. One could just as easily say, "show me in Scripture where Jesus said, 'don't worship me.'"
There are examples where people did indeed worship him, and he did not stop them.
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2007-09-26 04:52:06 · answer #1 · answered by Hogie 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
"The Father is greater."
Here Jesus is glorifying the Father. If you say to someone you admire, Hey, you're great! and that someone's answer to you is, "No, your greater," you know that this person, while you believe to be greater than you, is being meek and lowly. "Let each esteem others better than himself." Philippians 2:3.
This is a divine principle. We find the Holy Spirit did not speak of Himself but He came to glorify the Son and we also read in the Scriptures of the Father glorifying the Son. They glorify each other but they never glorify themselves!
Jesus was a perfect example of true humility.
After all, in Isaiah 9:6 He is given this title: Everlasting Father!
In the book of Hebrews, God the Father says, "Let all the angels of God worship Him." verse 6.
And then in verse 8 God says to Jesus, "Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever."
In Romans 9:5 the Holy Spirit speaks of Christ as "God over all blessed for ever more."
Thomas fell as His feet saying, "My Lord and My God." Jesus did not rebuke Thomas for doing so! Thomas did the right thing. This is another proof that Jesus is God in the highest sense!
2007-09-26 04:56:28 · answer #2 · answered by sky 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
NOT ONE! Instead, Jesus said at John 4:23, 24: "Nevertheless, the hour is coming, and it is now, when the true worshipers will worship the Father with spirit and truth, for, indeed, the Father is looking for suchlike ones to worship him. God is a Spirit, and those worshiping him must worship with spirit and truth."
2007-09-26 05:14:32 · answer #3 · answered by LineDancer 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus never HAD to say this, because those who fear God and come into Jesus' presence realize He is God and worship Him. The Bible repeatedly shows Jesus received worship without rebuking anyone -- despite what the New World Mistranslation would have JWs believe. Here's one:
Revelation 5:14 Then the four living creatures said, “Amen!” And the twenty-four elders fell down and worshiped Him who lives forever and ever.
2007-09-26 04:51:06 · answer #4 · answered by Suzanne: YPA 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I can show you one where some one called him God and Jesus didn't correct him:
John 20:28 And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God. 29 Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed [are] they that have not seen, and [yet] have believed.
Note the difference between his reaction (you should have had faith and not had to see proof) and the reactions of angels when people bowed down to them (Don't do that, I am a servant of God like you are).
UPDATE:
>Calling one "lord" or "son" in Hebrew did not mean what they are translated into.
Thomas and Jesus weren't speaking Hebrew, but I'd be interested in knowing what level of expertise you have in the hebrew language that brings you to this conclusion.
2007-09-26 04:47:35 · answer #5 · answered by Rossonero NorCal SFECU 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Latria is a Greek term used in Catholic theology to mean adoration, which is the highest form of worship or reverence and is directed only to the Holy Trinity.
Latria is sacrificial in character, and may be offered only to God. Catholics offer other degrees of reverence to the Blessed Virgin Mary and to the Saints; these non-sacrificial types of reverence are called Hyperdulia and Dulia, respectively. Hyperdulia is essentially a heightened degree of dulia provided only to the Blessed Virgin.
In Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglo Catholic theology, veneration is a type of honor distinct from the worship due to God alone. Church theologians have long adopted the terms latria for the sacrificial worship due to God alone, and dulia for the veneration given to saints and icons. Catholic theology also includes the term hyperdulia for the type of veneration specifically paid to Mary, mother of Jesus, in Catholic tradition. This distinction is spelled out in the dogmatic conclusions of the Seventh Ecumenical Council (787), which also decreed that iconoclasm (forbidding icons and their veneration) is a heresy that amounts to a denial of the incarnation of Jesus.
Veneration is a religious symbolic act giving honor to someone by honoring an image of that person, particularly applied to saints.
The Blessed Virgin, as manifesting in a sublimer manner than any other creature the goodness of God, deserves from us a higher recognition and deeper veneration than any other of the saints; and this peculiar cultus due to her because of her unique position in the Divine economy, is designated in theology hyperdulia, that is dulia in an eminent degree. It is unfortunate that neither our own language nor the Latin possesses in its terminology the precision of the Greek. The word latria is never applied in any other sense than that of the incommunicable adoration which is due to God alone. But in English the words adore and worship are still sometimes used, and in the past were commonly so used, to mean also inferior species of religious veneration and even to express admiration or affection for persons living upon the earth. So David "adored" Jonathan. In like manner Miphiboseth "fell on his face and worshipped" David (2 Samuel 9:6).
2007-09-28 18:40:17 · answer #6 · answered by cashelmara 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can show you 2:
John 8:58 & John 10:30
Jesus was God in the flesh....and God is to be worshipped
John 8:58 "Before Abraham ever was....I Am"
John 10:30 "I and My Father are one"
2007-09-26 04:39:32 · answer #7 · answered by primoa1970 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
No he said the father is greater.
2007-09-26 04:41:30 · answer #8 · answered by pestie58 the spider hunter 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋