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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...

worship him?’ Elsewhere, Jesus is recalled as maintaining the unique otherness that is God’s alone. For example, when addressed by one seeking eternal life as ‘Good teacher’, Jesus replies, ‘Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone’ (Mark 10:17–18). Again an unavoidable question arises: ‘Would Jesus himself have welcomed his being confessed as equal with God?’ Or take one other example, this time from Paul: a noticeable feature in his letters is his regular reference to Jesus as Lord,
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