So you agree that Jesus is the Messiah. If the Messiah is not God, then why is the Messiah to be worshiped as deity?
Lukas 24:52
Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB)
52 And they, having reverenced him in worship, returned to Yerushalayim with simcha gedolah.
Daniel 7:14
Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB)
And there was given Him (Moshiach) dominion, and honor, and sovereignty, that all people, Goyim, tongues, should pey-lammed-chet (see Dan 3:12, serve, reverence as deity Him (Moshiach). His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and His (Messianic) Kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.
Why do you keep repasting this verse as though it forms some sort of evidence when I've already stated the below:
What about Peter? He is "worshipped" in Acts 10:25 - does that make Peter God?
bigbobs,
When Peter was worshiped by Cornelius in Acts 10:25, Peter stopped Cornelius and rebuked him in the next verse saying "Stand up, I am
only a man myself."
Here is the complete passage:
Acts 10:25-26
New International Version (NIV)25 As Peter entered the house, Cornelius met him and
fell at his feet in reverence.
26 But Peter made him get up. “Stand up,” he said, “I am
only a man myself.”
Likewise, when John worshiped the angel in Revelations 22:8, the angel stopped John and corrected him in verse 9 saying "Don’t do that! I am a fellow servant with you and with your fellow prophets and with all who keep the words of this scroll. Worship God!"
Revelation 22:8-9
New International Version (NIV)8 I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. And when I had heard and seen them, I
fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who had been showing them to me.
9 But he said to me, “
Don’t do that! I am a fellow servant with you and with your fellow prophets and with all who keep the words of this scroll.
Worship God!”
I posted many Bible verses where people worshiped Jesus and Jesus never did stop, rebuke or correct them. But then a_ahmed posted the same verses using the Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB) to claim that because the English word "worship" was not used in this version of those verses, then those people were only bowing, kneeling or prostrating themselves before Jesus, but not in worship to him.
So now I quote the same Bible version that a_ahmed quoted:
Lukas 24:52
Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB)52 And they, having reverenced him in
worship, returned to Yerushalayim with simcha gedolah.
The word translated to "woshipped" here and in referencing to people "worhsipping" Jesus is Proskuneo, which could also mean bowing to.
The true word for woship is latreuo, which appears 22 times in the New Testament but none towards Jesus.
bigbobs,
The Greek word Proskuneo also means Worship. It is used many places in the New Testament in reference to worshiping God. In Matthew 4:9, Proskuneo is used in reference to worshiping Satan, and in Matthew 4:10 in reference to worshiping God.
Matthew 4:9-109 “All this I will give you,” he said, “
if you will bow down and worship me.”
10 Jesus said to him, “Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘
Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.’"
So my question stands: If Jesus is not God, then why did he not stop, rebuke or correct people, like Peter did in Acts 10:25-26 and like the angel did in Revelation 22:8-9, when people called him God to his face or when they worshiped him?
And you agree that Jesus is the Messiah. If the Messiah is not God, then why is the Messiah to be worshiped as deity by all people in Daniel 7:14?
Daniel 7:14
Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB)And there was given Him (
Moshiach) dominion, and honor, and sovereignty, that all people, Goyim, tongues, should
pey-lammed-chet (see Dan 3:12, serve,
reverence as deity Him (
Moshiach). His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and His (Messianic) Kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.