achtung whom I disagree with, but respect states:
Jehovah's Witnesses fully understand and agree that Jesus Christ the Son deserves and receives what can be described as "worship", but only when the English-language word "worship" has been properly defined. The obeisance and honors due the Christ should remain unambiguously subject to the "exclusive devotion" which is owed to the Father, Jehovah God. The Scriptures quite plainly show that true worship is uniquely devoted to the person of Almighty Jehovah God the Father. His Son, Jesus, personally taught that Jehovah deserves a unique form of "sacred service".
Hear O'Israel the Lord our God is one Lord. God was manifested in the flesh! Jesus has a name on His thigh as the KING OF KING & LORD OF LORDS!
2007-10-15 12:27:27 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The why is the Lamb being worshipped in the book of Revelation?
2007-10-16 06:14:51 · update #1
The questioner perhaps quotes from the Jerusalem Bible:
...(Isaiah 42:8) Yahweh, this is my name. I will not give my glory to another
That verse and others teach that Almighty Jehovah (God the Father) reserves a unique form of worship for himself.
(Matthew 4:10) Jesus said... ‘It is Jehovah your God you must worship, and it is to him alone you must render sacred service.’
(Luke 4:8) Jesus said... ‘It is Jehovah your God you must worship, and it is to him alone you must render sacred service.’
(Exodus 20:5) I Jehovah your God am a God exacting exclusive devotion
Jehovah the Father specifically directs that Jesus the Son receive obeisance and honor. Note that Jesus is at God's right hand and has *BECOME* better than the angels.
(Hebrews 1:6) [God] says: “And let all God’s angels do obeisance to him [Jesus].”
(Hebrews 1:3-4) [Jesus] sat down on the right hand of the Majesty in lofty places. So he has become better than the angels
From where does Christ's authority come?
(Matthew 28:18) And Jesus approached and spoke to them, saying: “All authority has been given me in heaven and on the earth.
(Acts 2:36) God made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you impaled.
(John 3:35) The Father loves the Son and has given all things into his hand.
(Acts 5:31) God exalted this one as Chief Agent and Savior to his right hand
(Psalm 2:2-6) The kings of earth take their stand And high officials themselves have massed together as one Against Jehovah and against his anointed one... Jehovah himself will hold them in derision..., Saying: “I, even I, have installed my king [Jesus]
Learn more:
http://watchtower.co.uk/e/20050422/article_01.htm
http://watchtower.co.uk/e/19951101/article_02.htm
2007-10-16 01:07:16 · answer #1 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A sincere Bible student is helped by noting carefully the context of those words. The Almighty God Jehovah was contrasting himself with the man-made idols in nations surrounding Israel. Jehovah asks: “To whom can you people liken God, and what likeness can you put alongside him?” Certainly not an image made by a metalworker or carved from a tree. (Isaiah 40:18-20; 41:7)
Such “gods” could not ‘stretch out the heavens like a gauze,’ as Jehovah did. (Isaiah 40:21-26) Further, Jehovah is able to predict the future; surely the idols of the nations cannot ‘tell the things that are to come afterward, that we may know that they are gods.’ (Isaiah 41:23) This thought is repeated at Isaiah 43:9, where Jehovah states: “Let national groups be gathered together. Who is there among them that can tell this? Or can they cause us to hear even the first things? Let them furnish their witnesses.” Rightly, the Almighty says: “I am Jehovah. That is my name; and to no one else shall I give my own glory, neither my praise to graven images.”—Isaiah 42:8.
So the context establishes that the Almighty is hurling a challenge at the so-called gods of the nations. Being mere idols with no divine power, they certainly are not gods to be worshiped; they are really nothings.
Jehovah continues: “Does there exist a God besides me? No, there is no Rock. I have recognized none. The formers of the carved image are all of them an unreality, and their darlings [cast from metal or carved from wood] will be of no benefit.” (Isaiah 44:8-17)
Consequently, the context of Isaiah 43:10 makes it clear that Jesus is not being considered; the “gods” under consideration are the impotent idols of the nations.
New Question: why is the Lamb being worshipped in the book of Revelation?
Because of what he subjected himself to as a man.
Christ "emptied himself and took a slave's form and came to be in the likeness of men. More than that, when he found himself in fashion as a man..."
As a reward for Christ's humility and obedience as a man, "God exalted him to a superior position"
2007-10-16 12:25:38 · answer #2 · answered by keiichi 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
(Isaiah 42:8) 8Â “I am Jehovah. That is my name; and to no one else shall I give my own glory."
Yet Jesus give his glory, the glory he had prior to coming to the earth to this Christian brothers.
John 17:5 So now you, Father, glorify me alongside yourself with the glory that I had alongside you before the world was.
22 Also, I have given them the glory that you have given me, in order that they may be one just as we are one.
Christians become one the same as Christ and his God are one. United in purpose.
Christians are given Christ's glory, something Jehovah said he would never do.
To believe Jesus is God is to take God's glory and give it to man.
Something Jesus would never do!
Jesus is King over earthly kings,
Jesus is Lord over earthly lords.
But Christians worship the God and Father of our Lord Jesus.
May the God and Father of our Lord Jesus grant you wisdom.
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2007-10-16 01:24:19 · answer #3 · answered by TeeM 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Is. 42:8 - "I am the LORD [Jehovah - ASV]: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images" - KJV.
Heb. 1:3 - "[Jesus] being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person...sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high" - KJV.
After quoting the above two verses, some trinitarians will claim that they prove that Jesus is Jehovah. They claim that if Jehovah will not share his glory with anyone else, then Jesus must be Jehovah because he shares Jehovah's glory.
Well, first we should note that others have "shared" or reflected Jehovah's glory. For example, the angel at Luke 2:9 appeared with "the glory of the Lord." God was not physically present, but the angel He personally sent to represent him was there with God's reflected glory to identify him as being from God and representing God. This particular angel was not even Jesus since Jesus had already been born on earth (verse 11). We see a similar thing at Rev. 21:10, 11 where the city of holy Jerusalem has descended from God and has the glory of God! That is how it can be identified as being from God: It has the glory of God!
Why, even some Christians will reflect God's glory: 2 Cor. 3:7-18. And Jesus himself said that the glory which the Father had given him he had also given to his followers! - John 17:22.
So it certainly appears that God allows his glory to be with others who represent him as a sign of the authority He has given them and who do not represent that glory as being their very own.
For much more, see:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JWquestions_and_answers_archives/message/158
AS TO WORSHIP:
Perhaps the most famous Biblical Hebrew scholar of all, Gesenius, tells us in Gesenius’ Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament, p. 813, (#7812), ‘Shachah’:
“WORSHIP:
(1) to prostrate oneself before ANYONE out of HONOR .... Those who used this mode of SALUTATION fell on their knees and touched the ground with the forehead ..., and this honor was not only shown to superiors, such as kings and princes, 2 Sam. 9:8; but also to equals; Gen. 23:7.”
The act described by proskuneo (or shachah) was of bowing or kneeling, and it generally indicated an act of respect and a display of one’s willingness to submit to or serve another person who occupied a superior position, regardless of his nature (somewhat similar to a salute in the military today). It was done, of course, in its very HIGHEST sense to God alone, but it was also done, in a lower sense of the same word, to kings, angels, prophets, etc. -RDB
2007-10-15 19:41:05 · answer #4 · answered by tik_of_totg 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Isa 42:8 – states “I am Jehovah. That is my name; and to no one else shall I give my own glory, neither my praise to graven images”
The text says Jehovah won’t give his own glory to GRAVEN IMAGES.
But Jehovah gave his glory to his own Son, Jesus , and that same glory was then given to Jesus’ followers.
John 17:22 states “Also, I have GIVEN them the GLORY that you have GIVEN ME, in order that they may be one just as we are one”.
2007-10-16 12:56:37 · answer #5 · answered by trustdell1 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God is One, everything is His as He created everything, including space and time and including Jesus, peace be upon him. All prophets of God shared the same message. "Thy Lord thy God is One"
We are not to associate anything to worship besides He that Created everything.
As Jesus said in the bible that he had no power except what comes from the father.
[5.116] And when Allah will say: O Isa son of Marium! did you say to men, Take me and my mother for two gods besides Allah he will say: Glory be to Thee, it did not befit me that I should say what I had no right to (say); if I had said it, Thou wouldst indeed have known it; Thou knowest what is in my mind, and I do not know what is in Thy mind, surely Thou art the great Knower of the unseen things. - Holy Qur'an
2007-10-15 19:45:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes we must give GOD all the glory, for we owe our vey lives to Him, without God we can do nothing and would be nothing.
JESUS IS LORD!
2007-10-15 19:35:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋