Is it wrong to worship JESUS

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It says in the 10 commandments that we shouldn't put any other GOD before me.

When we worship JESUS and pray to JESUS are we worshiping other GODS?

We put JESUS on the same playing field as GOD is that wrong?, are we worshiping JESUS wrong?
Jesus IS God, so not to worry.
 
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No, Jesus is God. We should worship Him, and worship the Father through Him. They are one and the same. When He was here in the flesh, the Father was in Him, and He in the Father. Jesus told the apostles that since they had seen Him, they had seen the Father also. I hope that cleared things up for you. :)
 
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There is order in the Trinity. An order of God the Father, Jesus the Son and God the Spirit.
There is nothing wrong with worshipping Jesus, but it is wrong to worship only Jesus.
 
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Jesus is God, in the form of the son.

You can worship another God by worshiping the same God.

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How do we say that?
When Jesus was in told or needed something he would pray to GOD his father. How can JESUS pray to himself?
Jesus Christ was a man and lived the life of a man. However, if you believe the Bible at all--which I'm sure you do--it is absolutely clear that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are one God.

That doesn't mean the three are identical, but they are one god. This is the doctrine of the Trinity. And Jesus in many ways affirmed his divine nature, even as he showed the characteristics, emotions, etc. of his human nature.
 
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It says in the 10 commandments that we shouldn't put any other GOD before me.

When we worship JESUS and pray to JESUS are we worshiping other GODS?

We put JESUS on the same playing field as GOD is that wrong?, are we worshiping JESUS wrong?

Jesus = God = Holy Spirit

You can pray to Jesus he will pray to Father and to Holy Spirit for you.

Btw by keeping 10 commandments you won't go to heaven , only one sin made in your life is enought to damn you to hell .You go to heaven by grace through faith in finished job of Jesus Christ who died on cross for all your sins ( 1 Cor 15:1-4) .
 
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It says in the 10 commandments that we shouldn't put any other GOD before me.

When we worship JESUS and pray to JESUS are we worshiping other GODS?

We put JESUS on the same playing field as GOD is that wrong?, are we worshiping JESUS wrong?

The 10 commandments tell us to worship no other God but Yahweh.

Thankfully, Jesus is Yahweh.
 
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It says in the 10 commandments that we shouldn't put any other GOD before me.

When we worship JESUS and pray to JESUS are we worshiping other GODS?

We put JESUS on the same playing field as GOD is that wrong?, are we worshiping JESUS wrong?

Jesus is God. Jesus is the second person of the Trinity. He is not another God. He is God Himself.

If one claims that Jesus is another God, they do not understand (or reject) the truth of the Trinity.
 
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How do we say that?
When Jesus was in trouble or needed something he would pray to GOD his father. How can JESUS pray to himself?

The Son, the second person of the Trinity, prayed to the Father, the first person of the Trinity. Jesus did not pray to Himself.

You have a fundamental misunderstanding of the Trinity.

Here is a definition of the Trinity, although not infallible nor exhaustive:

Within the one being of God, there exists three co-equal, co-eternal persons, namely the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. [James R. White, "The Forgotten Trinity"]
 
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There is nothing wrong with worshiping Jesus, but it is wrong to worship only Jesus.
Exactly. Taking Jesus of Nazareth out of the Trinity and focusing/worshiping only Him is leaving out a LOT of the Trinity (and is confusing).

The passages that were quoted about Jesus praying to God (the Father) have to do with His humanity....as the Nicene Creed states:

Nicene Creed said:
Equal to the Father, as touching his Godhead: and inferior to the Father, as touching His humanity.
 
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The ONE TRUE GOD = the TRI-UNE GOD = Father/Son/Holy Spirit.

PRAYER: with respect to the TRI-UNE GOD:

1. TO God the Father

Matthew 6:6,9...Jesus teaches His disciples the "Model Prayer"; SEE ALSO: Luke 11:2
But you, when you pray, go into your inner room, close your door and
pray TO your Father who is in secret, and
your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you...
“Pray (TO), then, in this way: ‘Our Father who is in heaven, Hallowed be Your name.

Colossians 1:3
We give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,

2. in the Power of God the Holy Spirit

Romans 8:26
In the same way (God) the (Holy Spirit also helps our weakness;
for we do not know how to pray as we should,
but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words;

Ephesians 6:18
With all prayer and petition pray at all times IN the Spirit,
and with this in view, be on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints,

3. in the NAME of God the Son

John 16:23
...Truly, truly, I say to you, if you ask the Father for anything IN MY NAME, He will give it to you.

James 5:14
Is anyone among you sick?
Then he must call for the elders of the church and they are to pray over him,
anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord;(God the Son, Master, "kyrios")
 
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Richard Rohr writes a lot about how it's common in a lot of Protestant churches to "pluck Jesus out of the Trinity". This is a bit from an article of his:

Richard Rohr said:
For Duns Scotus, the Christ Mystery was the blueprint of reality from the very start (John 1:1). Teilhard de Chardin brought this insight into our modern world. God’s first “idea” was to become manifest—to pour out divine, infinite love into finite, visible forms. Both are about love and beauty exploding outward in all directions. Creation is indeed the Body of God! What else could it be, when you think of it?

In Jesus, this eternal omnipresence had a precise, concrete, and personal referent. God’s presence became more obvious and believable in the world. But this apparition only appeared in the last ten seconds of December 31, as it were—scaling the universe’s entire history to a single year. Was God saying nothing and doing nothing for 13.8 billion years? Our code word for that infinite saying and doing was the “Eternal Christ.” (See John 1:1-5, Colossians 1:15-20, Ephesians 1:9-12 if you think this is some new idea.)

Vague belief and spiritual intuition became specific and concrete and personal in Jesus—with a “face” that we could “hear, see, and touch” (1 John 1:1). The formless now had a personal form, according to Christian belief.

But it seems we so fell in love with this personal interface with Jesus that we forgot about the Eternal Christ, the Body of God, which is all of creation, which is really the “First Bible.” Jesus and Christ are not exactly the same. In the early Christian era, only a few Eastern Fathers (such as Origen of Alexandria and Maximus the Confessor) cared to notice that the Christ was clearly historically older, larger, and different than Jesus himself. They mystically saw that Jesus is the union of human and divine in space and time, and the Christ is the eternal union of matter and Spirit from the beginning of time.

When we believe in Jesus Christ, we’re believing in something much bigger than just the historical incarnation that we call Jesus. Jesus is just the visible map. The entire sweep of the meaning of the Anointed One, the Christ, includes us and includes all of creation since the beginning of time. Revelation was geological, physical, and nature-based before it was ever personal and fully relational (see Romans 1:20).~https://cac.org/god-in-all-things-2016-10-23/
 
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John 1:29, 36 (NASB)
The next day he (John the Baptizer) saw Jesus coming to him and said,
“Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!...
and he (John the Baptizer)looked at Jesus as He walked, and said,
“Behold, the Lamb of God!”

Revelation 21:23
And the city has no need of the sun or of the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God has illumined it, and its lamp is the Lamb.
 
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