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1 | another question about worshipw/o belief | Col 2:9 | applefire251 | 125051 | ||
I asked "Can you worship God if you don't believe in Him?" Worship is defined as To honor and love as a deity (something worthy of worship/ thought of as a god or higher above most things) To regard with ardent or adoring esteem or devotion To respect; to honor; to treat with civil reverence. Hank responded with Certainly not! .... "And without faith is is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him." (Hebrews 11:6) --Hank Okay so you can not come to Him or please Him without faith or belief. But can you worship Him? Can you respect, and honor someone you don't believe or have faith in? I don't believe you can, but I am looking for scripture and an easy way to explain this to a group of children tonight at church. I guess this is what Jesus meant in John 4:24 when he said "God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth." |
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2 | another question about worshipw/o belief | Col 2:9 | Ray | 125052 | ||
Hi Applefire251, Welcome to the forum. John 4:23, "But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in (s)Spirit/ and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. 24 (God) is (s)Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in (s)Spirit and truth." Heb 11:5 "By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death; "And he was not found because God took him up;" for he obtained the witness that before his being taken up he was pleasing to God./ 6 And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that (He) is, and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him." The comparison connects worshiping in Spirit and truth in John and the idea in Hebrews of "being warned by God about things not yet seen" and becoming "an heir of the righteousness which is according to faith." Another comparison might be Hebrews 11:29 with the interpretation of John 4:29 as "Come see a Man who told me all the things that I have done; could this One be the (Christ)?" Hebrews 11:29, "How much severer punishment do you think he will deserve who has trampled under foot the Son of God, and has regarded as unclean the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the (Spirit) of grace?" 1) I would say that people will worship deities and gods, but there is one God who is worthy of praise. Col 2:6, "As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in (Him), 7 having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing with gratitude. 8 See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ. 9 For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form,..." Col 2:9, NKJ, "For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily;" From the heart, Ray |
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