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Did the First Christians Worship Jesus?: The New Testament Evidence is unavailable, but you can change that!

Christians today accept that Jesus is God and worship him as part of the Trinity. But what did the New Testament writers say about worshipping Jesus? Did they portray him as God, someone whom we should worship? Or did they see him as a great prophet like Moses or Elijah? Here, James Dunn introduces readers to the key New Testament passages that must be examined when trying to understand this...

looks for incomers to the assembly of believers to ‘fall on their faces and worship God’ (1 Cor. 14:25). And in the Revelation of John, God is regularly the focus of worship (proskynein).11 Moreover, it is not only false worship of the beast that is rebuked,12 but also any worship of other than God: the interpreting angel explicitly rebukes proskynēsis offered to him by the seer, and says emphatically, ‘Worship (proskynēson) God’ (Rev. 19:10; 22:8–9). There are a few other occasions in the New Testament
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