Latter-Day Saints, do you worship Jesus?

Question

I know the name people. But I also know that Jesus is your savior, and it is through His teachings that you are saved. That does not necessarily mean you worship Him. I know that you pray to the Heavenly Father through Jesus, but that does not mean you worship Jesus. What I am trying to figure out, is if yo worship Jesus, or if you honor Him as the son of God.. Or exactly how Jesus ties into your beliefs.

The thing is, I've heard from Mormons they don't worship Jesus but worship Heavenly Father as God. I'm not saying it is wrong one way or another, but am not sure how it works. I know that Jesus is considered Jehovah of the OT, that he is considered a god, but at the same time not God.. So I am confused on the whole matter.

I just want to know if He is worshipped :( When I think of worship in a holy context, I think of it as praising that thing you are worshipping as God.

I dunno, now I am confused.. Do you pray to Jesus? Do you believe Jesus is greater, less, or equal to God?

Answer 1

According to Webster's Dictionary, the verb definiton of "WORSHIP" means: to honor or reverence as a divine being or supernatural power, or to regard with great or extravagant respect, honor, or devotion.

After reading the definition I can honestly say that YES, Latter-Day Saints do worship Jesus Christ. We believe that Jesus Christ is a divine, celestial being, with powers beyond comprehension. We respect, honor, and show devotion to Him in numorous ways, including taking the sacrament in His name every week, praying in His name, teaching of His ministry, and proclaiming our testimony of Him. He is our Savior and Redeemer. He is the head of our church.

"We believe in Christ. We worship Christ. We take upon ourselves in solemn covenant His holy name. The Church to which we belong carries His name. He is our Lord, our Savior, our Redeemer through whom came the great Atonement with salvation and eternal life." --Gordon B. Hinckley, current president of the LDS church.

Answer 2

OK, as you already know, the name of the Church is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

We believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and our Savior. We believe that he was born of Mary, taught the Gospel, died on the cross for our sins, and was resurrected on the third day.

We believe that without Jesus Christ, we would all be doomed. We believe that due to Jesus Christ dying on the cross, we can be saved from our sins.

So, what is it you wanted to know?

Addition: We pray to God, the Father, in the name of Jesus Christ.

I have never considered whether we worship Jesus Christ or not. I always felt that we study him, we honor him, we revere him. I guess that means that we worship him. But, we don't pray to him, only to God.

I've read Lectures on Faith, and do not find any evidence that we believed that God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit were one being with three names. The Bible clearly refutes that concept. I cannot find any evidence that the Bible teaches anything different.

Answer 3

They claim to worship Him, but not through prayer. They revere, honor, and claim faith in Him as the only way to get to heaven.

It depends on how you define "worship", I suppose.

Before, the LDS Church used to believe in a Trinitarian concept of God. Later, they separated God and Christ, but didn't believe the Holy Spirit was a separate personage or essence, but was simply a shared mind between God and Christ (see Lectures on Faith, 5:2-3)

In 1838, when they moved to their current definition of the Godhead, it became important to clarify who Jehovah was, and since Christ claimed to be the I AM, it fell to Him. Therefore, Elohim (the Father) simply acted as a "background God" in the OT while Christ did all of the Godding for the first 4000 years of modern civilization. This poses a problem with the worship question, because if Christ was "worshiped" and prayed to BEFORE He gained His glory, why wouldn't He be worthy of being worshiped and prayed to AFTER? Yet, the LDS Church maintains that Christ must not be prayed to. It's interesting.

I guess the main issue is the need that LDS leaders seem to have (or at least had prior to Ezra Taft Benson) to answer every single question about how things work. Since it is supposedly "The One True Church", the prophets and apostles should be able to explain all that stuff, right? Well, yes, except that in rare cases like this one, it can sometimes cause more problems than it solves.

Answer 4

We worship Jesus and Heavenly Father. We pray to Heavenly Father through Jesus Christ. In the Bible Jesus set the example of prayer for us by praying to Heavenly Father. Heavenly Father is the Father of our spirit and Jesus Christ is the redeemer of our soul. Working together they give us immortality and eternal life if we follow Jesus and His teachings.

Answer 5

Worship is defined as: To honor and love as a deity, or To participate in religious rites of worship. The LDS religion accepts Jesus Christ as the divine Son of God and the Savior of the world, as our mediator to the Father (God), and as the only way to obtain the next life. We worship Him through service, as He directed. We love Him and count Him as our beloved saviour and brother. We believe all prayers, blessings, and priesthood ordinances should be done in his name. That He is the Lord of lords, King of kings, the Creator, the Savior, and the God of the whole earth.


Yea. We worship Jesus.

Answer 6

Define worship.

We believe that as God's Only Begotten Son, Jesus sits at the right hand of God, that he is our Savior, that through Him, His sacrifice and Atonement, we are saved and allowed to one day live with God in Heaven. We believe that His Life on earth is the pattern and example that we should follow in order to act as God our Father would have us.

By Worship do you mean "Try to be like"? Yes, we try to be like Jesus. By Worship do you mean "believe in salvation through"? Yes, we believe we are saved through Jesus. Our Prayers always end in His Holy name, our thoughts are turned to Him and our hearts are His eternally.

Answer 7

OK, Mormons, the answer to every single question asked of you all is not "But look at our NAME."

We get it. You have Christ's name in your church. We also have been warned that we should "Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many." (Matthew 24:4-5) So parroting the name of your church doesn't answer questions asked of you.

Notice, too, how disparate the LDS replies are: we do worship Jesus, we don't worship Jesus but revere him, etc. It's another example of the fact that most LDS have no idea what their church actually believes and teaches. That's because most LDS are actively taught NOT to explore their faith, other than the 'milk' fed them on Sundays. Remember, to a Mormon, anything that isn't simplistic and straight from Salt Lake City is the big, bad 'anti' monster. Run away!!

P.S. LDS, read Penguin's replies carefully. This person is right on!

Answer 8

No, we don't WORSHIP Jesus, but he is the cornerstone of the church. We worship God the Father in the name of Jesus Christ.

*drink*

Oh, the others are correct if you choose to define worship that way...but our GOD is Heavenly Father.


We begin our prayers "Dear Heavenly Father" and end with "I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ"
That is also how we end talks and meetings.

Answer 9

The individuals of the church do not worship the prophet Joseph Smith yet carry him in intense regard. Joseph Smith helped to return the real church of and teachings of our savior Jesus Christ to the sought after international and end the total apostasy. you are able to ask any missionary and that they're going to inform you this. Joesph smith became right into a prophet who died bringing the real church returned to the international for the full international. there have been many circumstances the place he could have given up and lived an prolonged life yet he confirmed the braveness of a real prophet and stood by utilising his ideals.

Answer 10

we pray to God AND Jesus because they are thesame people. Jesus, God, and the Holy Spirit are all thesame. kind of like you are a brother, an uncle, and a father. So when we pray to God, we are also praying to Jesus and when we pray to Jesus, we are also praying to God.