Sunday, October 21, 2012

Why worship Jesus Christ if He is not GOD?


Question:
     MAY I ASK if Felix Y. Manalo had a teaching that Christ should be worshiped? If he had, what are the biblical basis of this teaching?

Answer:
      Brother Felix Y. Manalo did not have his own teaching. As God's messenger, he strictly upheld and taught to the Church the pristine teachings of God written in the Holy Scriptures (II Tim. 3:15-17)
     Among the teachings of the Bible that he preached concerns the worship of Jesus Christ, not because Christ is God but because it is God's commandment that at the name of Jesus "every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those earth ... to the glory of the Father" (Phil. 2:10-11, New King James Version).

          that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of                  those under the earth, and [that] every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ [is] Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (Philippians 2:10-11 NKJV)

Christ has been placed by God far above all principality, power, might, and dominion, and all things have been put under His feet (Eph. 1 :21 -22).

          far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come. And He put all [things] under His feet, and gave Him [to be] head over all [things] to the church, (Ephesians 1:21-22, NKJV)

That Christ is not God, although men are commanded to worship Him, is further proven by the biblical teaching that He will eventually subject all His power and authority to the Father who is the only true God:

     "For the scripture says, 'God put all things under his feet'. It is clear, of course, that the words 'all things' do not include God himself, who puts all things under Christ. But when all things have been placed under Christ's rule, then he himself, the Son, will place himself under God, who placed all things under him: and God will rule completely overall." (I Cor. 1 5:27-28, Today's English Version}


source: GOD'S MESSAGE, April 2008, p.4

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