47) "Jesus is Worshipped, So He Must be God" Really?

Many Christians seem to think that because Jesus is worshipped, he is God.

We examine that claim and find it lacking in a number of respects.

The claim "Jesus must be God, because he is worshipped" is:

1. biblically ignorant. There are many humans in the Bible that are properly worshipped.

2. anti-Christ, a denial that Jesus Christ is a man. The claim “Jesus must be God if he is worshipped” is in effect: "We will not have this one, this man, rule over us".

3. Contradictory: On the one hand: “Jesus is fully man” but on the other hand: “I’m not worshipping a man.”

4. Not a biblical claim. The Bible never says, “Jesus is worshipped so he must be God”. Rather the claim is based on a misunderstanding of word meanings and wrong philosophical speculation.


The biblical model for worship is:

There is only one God, יהוה, The Father.

We worship God as God. We worship no one else as God other than יהוה, The Father.

We worship Jesus as the Messiah who gave his life for us, and the one to whom God has given all authority in heaven and on earth, not only in this age, but also in the age to come.

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Full written text of this podcast click here:

https://landandbible.blogspot.com/2021/06/jesus-is-worshipped-so-he-must-be-god.html

Other resources:

Podcast and notes/word study of “worship” by Sean Finnegan

http://restitutio.org/2016/03/04/should-we-worship-jesus/

Brother Kel article on the word “worship” in the Bible
https://www.angelfire.com/space/thegospeltruth/TTD/terms/worship1.html