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I'm perplexed. Despite all the trouble gone through by proponents of unitarianism against the equality of the Father and the Son, I don't know of any unitarians who don't call themselves "Christians," except sort of maybe the Jehovah's Witnesses. I don't know of any unitarians who focus on the Father more than Jesus; indeed, it's Trinitarians who seem to actually care about the Father as much as Jesus (so far as they emphasize the filial relationship between the two even as it exists eternally*). I don't know of, for lack of better words, Fatherians, adherents of Fatherianity, or what have you. And if Jesus appeared in front of a unitarian, would they or would they not bow down to Him? If the word "worship" just means to "bow down" to someone, and if no one should be worshiped except the Father, then when we bow down to Jesus are we betraying the Father? Yet by talking about Jesus more than the Father, aren't we mentally bowing down more to Jesus than the Father?
* If God doesn't change, then He is always the Father. If He is always the Father, He always has a Son. If the Son always exists, and exists because it is in the nature of God that He exist (so that God can be the Father), then the Son is in the nature of God, not outside it. Then God in His own nature is Father and Son, no?
* If God doesn't change, then He is always the Father. If He is always the Father, He always has a Son. If the Son always exists, and exists because it is in the nature of God that He exist (so that God can be the Father), then the Son is in the nature of God, not outside it. Then God in His own nature is Father and Son, no?
