{"id":9590,"date":"2014-03-23T12:29:20","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T11:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yeshuahatorah.com\/wordpress\/?p=9590"},"modified":"2025-11-06T13:23:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T11:23:02","slug":"vooraanstaand-geleerde-over-jesus-olatry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yeshuahatorah.com\/en\/vooraanstaand-geleerde-over-jesus-olatry\/","title":{"rendered":"Vooraanstaand Geleerde over Jesus-olatry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Een van de voornaamste hedendaagse theologen, <a href=\"http:\/\/nl.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Dunn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James Dunn<\/a>,\u00a0doet in een recent werk het eenvoudige -monothe\u00efstische &#8211; geloof van de eerste &#8216;christenen&#8217; uit de doeken.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Did the first Christians worship Jesus?<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5; font-size: 26px; font-weight: bold;\">Plain talk and warning about God and Jesus<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong> From Dr. James Dunn<br \/>\n<\/strong><em><strong>Did the first Christians worship Jesus?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>It becomes plain the kyrios [lord] title for Jesus\u00a0<b>is not so much a way of identifying Jesus with God<\/b>, as a way of\u00a0distinguishing\u00a0Jesus from God. It cannot be unimportant that Paul can use both kyrios Yahweh text in reference to Christ and at the same time can speak of God as \u201cthe<b> God of our Lord<\/b>\u201d (1 Cor. 2:23; 11:3). Most notable in this connection is 1Cor 15:24-28. In effect it is the nearest we have in the New Testament to an exposition of the <b>crucial text<\/b>, Psalm 110:1, that <b>so influenced the first Christians\u2026<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201c[It is not the use of \u2018God\u2019 for Jesus] a step towards polytheism \u2015 Jesus is a second god beside the creator God? If \u2018God,\u2019 then how are we to make sense of the first Christians\u2019 clear memory that Jesus called for worship to be given only to God. And himself regularly prayed to God as his God and Father?&#8230; The New Testament writers are really quite careful at this point. Jesus is not the God of Israel. He is not the Father. He is not Yahweh\u2026 Jesus of Nazareth affirmed the same monotheistic creed as [his contemporaries] did\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf what has emerged in this inquiry is taken seriously, it soon becomes evident that Christian worship can deteriorate into what may be called Jesus-olatry\u2026 The danger is that Jesus has been substitute for God, as taken the place of the one Creator God\u2026 The first Christians did not think of Jesus as to be worshipped in and for himself. He was not to be worshipped as wholly God, or fully identified with God&#8230; A second point to be noted takes up the complementary issue of whether worship of Jesus constitutes a denial of Christianity\u2019s claim to be a monotheistic religion.\u201d (pp. 110-111, 132, 142, 145-148).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Een van de voornaamste hedendaagse theologen, James Dunn,\u00a0doet in een recent werk het eenvoudige -monothe\u00efstische &#8211; geloof van de eerste &#8216;christenen&#8217; uit de doeken. 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