{"id":4037,"date":"2012-05-30T21:03:33","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T01:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=4037"},"modified":"2015-08-08T21:23:13","modified_gmt":"2015-08-09T01:23:13","slug":"who-should-christians-worship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/who-should-christians-worship\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Should Christians Worship?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Should Christians worship only God?<\/strong> Or God and Jesus? Or is it redundant to say that we should worship both God\u00a0<em>and<\/em> Jesus? If Jesus isn&#8217;t God himself, is it therefore the sin of idolatry to worship Jesus? I address these questions in light of scripture in this<strong>\u00a0screencast version of a talk<\/strong> I gave in Atlanta at the 2012 Theological Conference sponsored by the Atlanta Bible College. My thanks to the hosts and audience there for a good discussion.<\/p>\n<p>This version is a bit longer, and I&#8217;ve tweaked my <strong>definitions of idolatry<\/strong>, I hope making them more accurate.<\/p>\n<p>I believe an <strong>actual video<\/strong> of my talk will eventually be posted at the <a title=\"21st century reformation website\" href=\"http:\/\/21stcr.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">21st Century Reformation website<\/a>. The Atlanta version is more conversational and has film of me talking, and I believe it will include the Q&amp;A that followed. I will post links when they are available.<\/p>\n<p>Part 1:<\/p>\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9IPJq1kcDuc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Part 2:<\/p>\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qCrHrsrdV70?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should Christians worship only God? Or God and Jesus? Or is it redundant to say that we should worship both God\u00a0and Jesus? If Jesus isn&#8217;t God himself, is it therefore the sin of idolatry to worship Jesus? I address these questions in light of scripture in this\u00a0screencast version of a talk I gave in Atlanta&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/who-should-christians-worship\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Who Should Christians Worship?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,21,15,4,8,10,38,9,3,43,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apologetics","category-bible","category-christology","category-heresy-orthodoxy","category-linkage","category-logic","category-monotheism","category-philosophy","category-theories","category-unitarianism","category-worship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36004,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4037\/revisions\/36004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}