Hurtado on the early worship of Jesus
“…earliest believers treated the risen/exalted Jesus as they did only because they felt required to do so by God.”
“…earliest believers treated the risen/exalted Jesus as they did only because they felt required to do so by God.”
If the earliest Christians’ answer (re: how one can be a monotheist and yet worship both the one God and Jesus) was a good answer then, why isn’t it a good answer now?
Is the New Testament position that Christians should only worship God himself?
A conversation about the New Testament on God, Jesus, and worship.
Is “the doctrine of the Trinity” essential to salvation? To Christianity?
Do the NT authors assume that God is the Trinity, or the Father… or are they confused?
Trinitarian theologies are a major barrier to Muslims accepting Christianity. In this episode we hear how Mr. Qureshi changed his view that the Trinity is a patently ridiculous doctrine.
Does the gospel of Mark hint that Jesus is Yahweh in the flesh?
A conversation with the author of the Paideia John commentary on Jesus and God in the fourth gospel.
Dr. Hurtado explains the term “early high christology” and what it means when applied to his own work.
He argues cogently that even in the earliest parts of the New Testament, the religious worship of Jesus is presupposed, such as in Philippians 2.
The terms “atheism,” “monotheism,” and “polytheism” seem straightforward enough… BUT important ambiguity lurks in the root term “theism.”
Jesus is God, and God can’t be tempted… yet Jesus was tempted?
Should Dr. Ehrman become a member of “the early high christology club”?
“…in the New Testament Jesus is not worshiped ‘as God’ (whatever that may mean) but, instead, with reference to God, as the Son of God, as the Lord appointed by God…”
Can one prove that the biblical Jesus is Yahweh based on his being savior or creator, or his being worshiped?
From time to time, I’m going to set up some simple polls for ya’ll to vote in. I’ve decided to set them up outside of WordPress (this blog’s software), so as to avoid various complications. Here’s praying that I don’t run into technical difficulties that are over my head! I’ve shamelessly stolen the four claims – the inconsistent tetrad – from a posting by Jeff… Read More »first Poll – worship
Should Christians worship only God? Or God and Jesus? Or is it redundant to say that we should worship both God and Jesus? If Jesus isn’t God himself, is it therefore the sin of idolatry to worship Jesus? I address these questions in light of scripture in this screencast version of a talk I gave in Atlanta at the 2012 Theological Conference sponsored by the Atlanta Bible… Read More »Who Should Christians Worship?
When a NT author claims that Jesus fulfills an OT text which is about God, is that his way of saying that Jesus is God?