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Before the New Testament or the creeds of the church were written—the devotional practices of the earliest Christians show that they worshipped Jesus alongside the Father. Larry W. Hurtado has been one of the leading scholars on early Christology for decades. In Honoring the Son: Jesus in Earliest Christian Devotional Practice, Hurtado helps readers understand early Christology by examining not...

It is important to note that in the Roman era, every nation had its own gods, and people of whatever nation generally accepted the validity of the gods of other nations. All the gods of all the nations were generally regarded as valid and worthy of worship.1 So if you traveled abroad, you might readily join in ceremonies in honor of the gods of foreign lands, as well as those in honor of your own gods. There was no notion that your gods would be offended if you
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