Unitarian Christian Alliance | Christology, Worship, and the Eucharist - Should we worship Jesus? @UnitarianChristianAlliance | Uploaded February 2023 | Updated October 2024, 17 hours ago.
While the early Christians elevated Jesus to an unprecedented level of attention and veneration, they did not worship him in the full sense of the word. Jesus himself worshiped God and continues to worship God in heaven.
Early Christian worship is defined centrally by the Eucharist meal, in which God the Father is the recipient and the Christian community led by Christ is the participant. Jesus is never portrayed as the recipient of sacrificial worship in the New Testament nor are any of the words that are exclusive to worship used directly toward him.
This is a strong argument against Jesus being viewed as
God by the early Christians and strong clear evidence that Jesus was distinct from the identity of the God whom the Christians worshiped. This offers a strong apologetic for a Biblical Unitarian Christology at the foundation of earliest Christianity.
While the early Christians elevated Jesus to an unprecedented level of attention and veneration, they did not worship him in the full sense of the word. Jesus himself worshiped God and continues to worship God in heaven.
Early Christian worship is defined centrally by the Eucharist meal, in which God the Father is the recipient and the Christian community led by Christ is the participant. Jesus is never portrayed as the recipient of sacrificial worship in the New Testament nor are any of the words that are exclusive to worship used directly toward him.
This is a strong argument against Jesus being viewed as
God by the early Christians and strong clear evidence that Jesus was distinct from the identity of the God whom the Christians worshiped. This offers a strong apologetic for a Biblical Unitarian Christology at the foundation of earliest Christianity.
