No one worships by accident. Every act of worship answers the question of Who is God and who is not. Worship, then, is never neutral. Proper worship, according to Scripture, belongs to God alone because worship is an expression of one’s conviction of who God is. Within this biblical framework, worship functions not merely as religious expression but as a theological judgment concerning God’s identity.
This series will argue that the earliest worship practices of the first Christians reveal that they believed Jesus to be the true God. Because Scripture strictly excluded cultic devotion to any creature, the worship of Jesus by the earliest Christians cannot be adequately explained as mere honor, representation, or delegated authority. The first Christians worshiped Jesus, not because they gradually elevated Him to divine status, but because they believed that the one God of Israel had made Himself known in Him.
-Special thanks to Donnie DeBord of Apologetics Press for this upcoming series.
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