1. There is ample evidence that Jesus was worshiped. The apostle Thomas certainly believed Jesus was God when he said, "My Lord and my God.
It is written that men have worshipped angels as honor due to angels. Men have worshipped kings as honor due to kings. And men have worshipped Jesus as honor due to the Son of God. However, no one has ever worshipped Jesus Christ as Yahweh, The God Almighty (Ton Theon). In fact, Jesus himself reminded Satan that that kind worship is only due to Yahweh, The God Almighty. And men have worshipped other men depending on their honorable titles. This is where we get titles like “His or Her Worship” when referring to dukes, Justices of the Peace, and magistrates. Consider the evidence that found in the Holy Scriptures:
"And he said, Nay; but [as]
captain of the host of YAHWEH am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did
worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant? (Joshua 5:14)
"And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt
worship YAHWEH thy God, and
him only shalt thou serve." (Luke 4:8)
"But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room; that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, Friend, go up
higher: then shalt thou have
worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee." (Luke 14:10)
"But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall
worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him." (John 4:23)
"David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after
Saul, saying,
My lord the king. And when Saul looked behind him, David stooped with his face to the earth, and
bowed himself." (1 Samuel 24:8)
"And he said unto her, What form [is] he of? And she said, An old man cometh up; and he [is] covered with a mantle. And Saul perceived that it [was]
Samuel, and he stooped with [his] face to the ground, and
bowed himself." (1 Samuel 28:14)
"It came even to pass on the third day, that, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul with his clothes rent, and earth upon his head: and [so] it was, when he came to
David, that he fell to the earth, and
did obeisance." (2 Samuel 1:2)
"Now when Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, was come unto
David, he fell on his face, and
did reverence. And David said, Mephibosheth. And he answered, Behold thy servant!" (2 Samuel 9:6)
"Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed [himself], and changed his apparel, and came into the house of
YAHWEH and
worshipped: then he came to his own house; and when he required, they set bread before him, and he did eat." (2 Samuel 12:20)
2. God being ONE has already been addressed. The Father, Son and Holy Spirit are the ONE God just as a husband and wife are ONE flesh.
Apparently not effective enough; because some Christians either cannot count or stubbornly continue to preach that there are three gods. And I’m still waiting on someone to show me the name of the Holy Spirit. And how can you call on the name of God the Father when it was deliberately banned and substituted for a title instead of a translated name? The LORD is not a name, Kurios is not a name. I’m just “curious” on how do you baptize in those three names when those names are not found in the New Testament. I say that the ancient Hebrew patriarchs and Muslim still have it right when they follow the ancient truth regarding the monotheism of Yahweh, The God Almighty.
And the analogy of “a man and wife becoming one flesh” is
weak at best. Jesus Christ himself said that millions of believers are
one in Yahweh the Father and Jesus the Son of God; however, you don’t see anyone
worshipping these believers as
gods or calling any of them
God the Father, Son, or
Holy Spirit:
"That they all may be one; as thou, Father, [art] in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me." (John 17:21)
The oneness between Yahweh and his son Jesus is referring to their shared qualities like one purpose, one goal, one love, etc. This same oneness is shared between the millions of believers making the
one with Yahweh The God, and Jesus the Son of God possible.
3. This is a big one! You really need to consider ALL of the verses concerning the glory which God gave/shared with His Son. According to the Scriptures, God, the Father did give His glory to another. He gave it to Jesus.
And you
really need to ensure that
all of your teachings and sporadic verse quoting harmonize with all the Holy Books of the Bible from Genesis to Revelations and not just from Matthew to Revelations. God did give glory to Jesus; but
not the glory due to The God Almighty. The truth is that God gave Jesus glory due to the Son of God. In fact. Yahweh gave glory to Moses due to the glory of a prophet of God. And the Almighty God gave glory to David due the glory of the King of Israel, and so forth with other honorable men and women. However it is written that:
"I [am]
YAHWEH: that [is] my name: and
my glory will I not give to another, neither my
praise to graven images." (Isaiah 42:8)
Satan would
love for people to believe that God
lied later on and actually gave or shared this
kind of glory to someone else such as his Son, Jesus Christ. No, the glory of The God (Ton Theon) is only due to the one and only Yahweh, The God Almighty.
“And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us; we have beheld his glory, the glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.” John 1:14
That is an incorrect understanding of that verse; read it again. John said the glory as
the only Son from the Father; not the glory of the Father. That is glory do to a son not a father. There are different levels of glory depending on the title of honor as I’ve mentioned in the above scriptures.
