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Posted by Farkel [Keflar] on November 07, 1999 at 13:07:53 {zExURjw8QAjc7.1TE24IvhKqcjatLo}:

FJW,

In the thread below entitled "What I've Learned on H20," you mentioned worship of Jesus. I replied that you should go tell your PO that you worship Jesus and then see what happens.

You replied:

:Did Not Jehovah Tell Us To Bow Down To The King Jesus. Is This Not An Act Of Worship? Does Not The Scriptures Tell Us To Worship The Son?

Since you are of the anointed, and thus of the "Faithful and Discrete Slave" CLASS, I feel it is my duty to help you to understand what you are supposed to believe, so you can make sure that "spiritual food at the proper time" that you dispense is not in conflict with your masters in Brooklyn.

I suggest for starters that you read Matthew 4:10.

*** w54 1/1 30-1 Questions from Readers ***
Questions from Readers

Should we worship Jesus?-G. B., Ethiopia.

...Consequently, since the Scriptures teach that Jesus Christ is not a trinitarian co-person with God the Father, but is a distinct person, the Son of God, THE ANSWER TO THE ABOVE QUESTION MUST BE THAT NO DISTINCT WORSHIP IS TO BE RENDERED TO JESUS CHRIST now glorified in heaven. Our worship is to go to Jehovah God. However, we show the proper regard for God's only-begotten Son by rendering our worship to God through and in the name of Jesus Christ. Even now when we kneel in prayer, as Paul did according to Ephesians 3:14-19, we offer prayer in the name of Jesus Christ in obedience to his own directions (John 15:16; 16:23-26), but the prayer itself is addressed, not to Jesus, but to God his Father. In this way we keep things in their relative positions.

Are you going to claim that is an OLD quote and so is OLD light? Well, here are but a few much newer quotes:

*** w97 12/15 7 The Roots of Modern Christmas ***
While on earth Jesus did not encourage men to worship him. Jesus himself said: "It is Jehovah your God you must worship, and it is to him alone you must render sacred service." (Matthew 4:10) Similarly, after Jesus' heavenly glorification, an angel told the apostle John to "worship God," indicating that nothing had changed regarding this matter. (Revelation 19:10)

*** w94 6/1 11 Have You Found the Right Religion? ***
15 The true religion advocates worship of only the one true God, Jehovah. (Deuteronomy 4:35; John 17:3) Paraphrasing Deuteronomy 5:9 and G>De G>6:13, Jesus Christ firmly stated: "It is Jehovah your God you must worship, and it is to him alone you must render sacred service." (Matthew 4:10)

*** w94 12/15 24 Should You Pray to Jesus? ***
On one occasion Jesus said: "It is written, 'It is Jehovah your God you must worship, and it is to him alone you must render sacred service.'" Jesus adhered to the fundamental truth that worship-hence also prayers-is to be addressed only to his Father, Jehovah God.-Luke 4:8; 6:12.

*** w93 11/1 4 Unraveling the Mystery of the Greatest Name ***
Religious leaders of Christendom followed the same course. They replaced the name Jehovah with "God" ("Allah" in Arabic) and "Lord." That contributed to the development of the false doctrine of the Trinity, which has no basis in the Holy Scriptures. Because of this, millions mistakenly worship Jesus and the holy spirit and consider them equal to God.

*** w84 9/1 26 "We Worship What We Know" ***
Yet, instinctively, many Catholics feel the need to worship someone they can know and name. This, no doubt, explains why many of them worship Jesus or even Mary.

*** w70 11/15 702 Questions from Readers ***
G> How are we to understand Hebrews 1:6, which says that all the angels are commanded to worship Jesus?-F. C; U.S.A.

Hebrews 1:6 reads: "But when he again brings his First-born into the inhabited earth, he says: 'And let all God's angels worship him.'" The writer of Hebrews is here quoting from Psalm 97:7, which reads (in part): "Bow down to him, all you gods." The Septuagint Version, from which this writer evidently quoted, reads: "Worship Him all ye His angels."-C. Thomson.

These texts seem to raise a problem because they appear to conflict with Jesus' plain statement to Satan the Devil: "It is written, 'It is Jehovah your God you must worship, and it is to him alone you must render sacred service.'"-Matt 4:10.

Hope this helps.

Farkel

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