Worshipping Leaders?

Question

Do you worship the President or the Prime Minister or the Leaders in your Country, or do just you listen to them, do you show respect to your Leaders and do you call them Gods?

No? then neither do Catholics towards the Pope, he is our leader in the Church, he is not God and we do not worship him

Can you tell me what the difference is?

Answer 1

There is no difference. I proposed a question to Atheists in regards to following leaders and many got stuck on the fact they simply don't believe in God (but failed to see that they don't FOLLOW).

Yes, there is no difference. People, everyone, they get their logic from the same universe as the next person so something is providing logic (no, i doubt it's god)

Answer 2

I worship nothing. In my country, the U.S.A., we don't have leaders, we have employees who are *supposed* to represent us. I respect our employees only to the extent that I think they deserve respect. Unfortunately, there's not much to respect nowadays, if there ever was.

What's the difference? As I understand it, there are times when your pope is considered to be infallible. I can't even imagine believing such a thing.

Answer 3

Psalm 17:5: “Let my steps take hold on your tracks, [In which] my footsteps will certainly not be made to totter.”

Psalm 37:23: “By Jehovah the very steps of an able-bodied man have been made ready, And in his way He takes delight.”

Psalm 146:3, 4: “Do not put YOUR trust in nobles, Nor in the son of earthling man, to whom no salvation belongs.”

Proverbs 16:3: “Roll your works upon Jehovah himself and your plans will be firmly established.”

Proverbs 20:24: “From Jehovah are the steppings of an able-bodied man. As regards earthling man, how can he discern his way?”

Ecclesiastes 8:9: “All this I have seen, and there was an applying of my heart to every work that has been done under the sun, [during] the time that man has dominated man to his injury.”

Jeremiah 10:23: “I well know, O Jehovah, that to earthling man his way does not belong. It does not belong to man who is walking even to direct his step.”

Jeremiah 17:9: “The heart is more treacherous than anything else and is desperate. Who can know it?”

It is rare that I start off with so many scriptures, but these scriptures basically tell you where I stand in terms of the God I serve. Certainly, I do not serve some man on earth (Pope, religious leader, Rabbi, etc.)

In terms of the superior authorities (governments, those in political office), I am in subjection to them.

Romans 13:1: “Let every soul be in subjection to the superior authorities, for there is no authority except by God; the existing authorities stand placed in their relative positions by God. Therefore he who opposes the authority has taken a stand against the arrangement of God; those who have taken a stand against it will receive judgment to themselves.”

Although I am in subjection to the superior authorities, I do not have to obey them if they want me to do anything that is in conflict with the very one who placed those superior authorities in their relative positions. We pay our taxes in a honest way, thus being in subjection to those authorities.

What about calling people Pope, Rabbi, Teacher, Father?

Matthew 23:6-12: “They like the most prominent place at evening meals and the front seats in the synagogues, and the greetings in the marketplaces and to be called Rabbi by men. But YOU, do not YOU be called Rabbi, for one is YOUR teacher, whereas all YOU are brothers. Moreover, do not call anyone YOUR father on earth, for one is YOUR Father, the heavenly One. Neither be called ‘leaders,’ for YOUR Leader is one, the Christ. But the greatest one among YOU must be YOUR minister. Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”

I do not worship humans, but rather Jehovah God, who is the Most High over all the earth. (Psalm 83:18)


Source(s):

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

Answer 4

Well I guess I'd have to say that a pope is worth more money ,since he has the popemobile. Maybe its the big hat that people want

Answer 5

I don't see a difference.
What. Are there a bunch of Catholic Haters on here or something?
If you don't chop off heads or explode yourself all over everyone else why, you must be the enemy.
(Ha!)

Answer 6

Take a look at "Dr Dino" or other "respected" creationist, or your local pastor don't they qualify as greater than human stature? Do you accept what they say without checking their logic or knowledge?

Answer 7

And why do you go to your "father" and confess your sins to him when in the bible your to confess your sins to Jesus?