In which of his books does Benjamin Sommer discuss Justin Martyr?
slimboyfat
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Should Jesus be worshipped?
by Melody incan anyone explain why jesus should or should not be worshipped?.
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Should Jesus be worshipped?
by Melody incan anyone explain why jesus should or should not be worshipped?.
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slimboyfat
What’s the point of this? Really? Do you even read the AI text before posting it?
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Should Jesus be worshipped?
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slimboyfat
According to Dan McCellan, and my own reading of the subject confirms this, it’s the consensus among scholars that Justin believed the Son is a second god subordinate to the God who created all things. Justin Martyr’s theology is incompatible with later Nicene Trinitarianism. The fact that you can prompt AI to insist otherwise using a lot of flowery language and specious long-winded arguments doesn’t alter that.
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slimboyfat
Theos without the article may not automatically mean “a god” rather than “the God”, but when the authors explicitly make that distinction themselves, as Philo, Justin Matryr, and Origen do, then it’s fair to accept they mean what they say when the make a distinction between the God and a second subordinate god. This video has a good explanation in relation to Justin Martyr by Bible scholar Dan McClellan.
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Should Jesus be worshipped?
by Melody incan anyone explain why jesus should or should not be worshipped?.
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slimboyfat
Your objection, which seeks to deflate the Christological force …
Yet more AI crap. Do you have a single thought of your own?
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Should Jesus be worshipped?
by Melody incan anyone explain why jesus should or should not be worshipped?.
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slimboyfat
Can’t be bothered reading that. Do you anywhere address why you lied about proskuneo in the LXX? And can you explain why should I bother reading any of the AI text you post when it is laced with falsehoods? You can answer in a sentence or two no need for all the diversionary verbiage.
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Should Jesus be worshipped?
by Melody incan anyone explain why jesus should or should not be worshipped?.
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slimboyfat
A quick scan of the AI text shows at least one shockingly misleading comment:
The attempted analogy with 1 Chronicles 29.20, sometimes marshalled to prove that a human king could be “worshipped” in a merely civil sense, collapses under textual scrutiny. The Masoretic Hebrew employs the verb shachah for both God and David, but shachah corresponds in the Septuagint not to proskuneō but to a broader semantic field, and modern critical translations judiciously render the second object “did homage to the king.”
In fact the LXX does use proskuneō in this verse. The above is just a pile of flowery nonsense. How many more factual errors and distortions I cannot be bothered to begin working out. What a waste of everyone’s time it would be if anyone was actually reading these stupid AI posts, which apparently they are not in any case.
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Should Jesus be worshipped?
by Melody incan anyone explain why jesus should or should not be worshipped?.
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slimboyfat
The question of whether Jesus of Nazareth ought to receive the cultic devotion that the New Testament directs exclusively to the God of Israel can scarcely be adjudicated by appealing to isolated proof-texts or by counting lexical occurrences.
Neither can it scarcely be settled by asking AI to write pile of text in flowery language to buttress your preferred position.
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Should Jesus be worshipped?
by Melody incan anyone explain why jesus should or should not be worshipped?.
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slimboyfat
The king of Israel was worshipped alongside God (1 Chron 29:20) and Jesus himself said that the saints would be worshipped (Rev 3:9), but as for the highest form of sacrificial worship (latreuo), as Jesus said, that is given only to God. It is never applied to Jesus.
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Should Jesus be worshipped?
by Melody incan anyone explain why jesus should or should not be worshipped?.
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slimboyfat
Jesus himself answered this question at Matt 4:10