To: Tantumergo
Would you enlighten St. Thomas - a good Jewish Christian?: I would praise my Lord and my God as well, as a matter of fact I did when I realized YHWH raised Yeshua from the dead. Why do people always think this is some kind of proof of trinity scripture?
And do you claim that the saints in heaven worship a mere creature rather than their creator?:
Yes I do. People fell down before Moses and Abraham and worshipped as well. "Received Divinity"? Which Catholic translation are you using? I thought he pre-existed with power and divinity. What's this about Him receiving it?
Or maybe you believe that the Johannine corpus has been corrupted as well?
Yawn. Try again.
To: Invincibly Ignorant
"People fell down before Moses and Abraham and worshipped as well."
There is no place in the OT or Jewish tradition where a mere man receives the SAME worship as the One True God - and you know it.
St. John is clearly describing the saints as giving the SAME worship to the Lamb as they are to His Father. This is what orthodox Christians do - including these early Jewish Christians seen by St. John.
You and your blasphemous ilk are more akin to the Ebionites, Arians and Mohammedans - denying the worship that is due to the Son - there is no grace in you.
Even the OT had an anticipation of one who was to come who would have the SAME power, the SAME kingdom, be worshipped and served in the SAME way as the Most High:
Dan "7:13 I beheld therefore in the vision of the night, and lo, one like the son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and he came even to the Ancient of days: and they presented him before him.
14 And he gave him power, and glory, and a kingdom: and all peoples, tribes and tongues shall serve him: his power is an everlasting power that shall not be taken away: and his kingdom that shall not be destroyed."
Dan 7:27 "And that the kingdom, and power, and the greatness of the kingdom, under the whole heaven, may be given to the people of the saints of the most High: whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all kings shall serve him, and shall obey him."
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