worshipped as God by the first century Church. The use of the pronoun “our” is polemic. The citizens of the Roman empire looked upon Caesar as their god. There were two cults in the empire at that time, the Cult of the Caesar, which was the state religion of the Roman empire, in which the emperor was worshipped as a god, and the Cult of Christ, Christianity, in which Jesus of Nazareth was worshipped as God. The people of Syrian Antioch, who had a reputation for coining nicknames, gave the name “Christian”