Was Jesus Ever Worshiped?

Was Jesus Ever Worshiped as God?

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During Jesus’ time, many people considered him to be a religious teacher, and some believed he was the Messiah promised in the Torah. However, Jesus never sought to be worshiped and often rebuked those who tried to attribute divine honors to him, It’s important to note that the Bible was written over centuries by different authors, with many contradictions and uncertainties about its text, authorship, and transmission.

1. Refuting and Exposing “Matthew 2:11”

The Magi didn’t come out of love for Jesus, their arrival was connected to Herod’s plot to kill him.

📖Matthew 2:2 – They say, “Where is he that is born King of the Jews?”
→ This triggers Herod’s fear of losing power.
📖Matthew 2:3 – “When King Herod heard this he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.”
→ The entire political system was disturbed – not celebrating, but plotting.
Herod secretly calls the Magi and tells them:
📖Matthew 2:8 – “Go and search carefully for the child. As soon as you find him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship him.”
→ This was a lie, Herod wanted to track and kill the child, not worship him, So the visit of the Magi was not about divine reverence. It was a trap, The entire setup was a political assassination attempt disguised as worship.
📖Matthew 2:12 – “And having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their country by another route.”
→ If their worship was sincere and guided by the Holy Spirit, why would God warn them in a dream to escape?
📖Matthew 2:13 – An angel tells Joseph to flee to Egypt: “Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.”

🔥Summary:

The Magi didn’t come to worship Jesus as God.
They were unknowingly part of Herod’s assassination plan.
Their visit helped identify Jesus’ location, and God had to intervene supernaturally to save him.

So to claim that this visit proves divine worship is misleading. The overall context shows that this event was surrounded by deception, fear, political threat, and an attempt to murder – not worship.

2. Refuting and Exposing “Matthew 2:11”
This verse is fabricated and corrupted. It falsely claims that some random men worshipped Jesus when he was just a child.

His own family never worshipped him.
His mother Mary, siblings, stepfather Joseph, and relatives never worshipped him, neither in his infancy, childhood, nor adulthood. If he was truly God, why didn’t his closest family recognize or worship him?
No claim of divinity from Jesus as a child.
According to Trinitarians, Jesus didn’t claim to be God until he was 30 years old. So how could strangers have known he was divine during his childhood? Who told them to worship him?
No Old Testament prophecy supports this worship.
There isn’t a single verse in the entire Old Testament that instructs anyone to worship a child as God, let alone Jesus. The men in Matthew 2:11 were not acting on scripture.
The text says they followed a star, not revelation.
📖Matthew 2:1–13 shows these men followed a star, not divine guidance or scripture. This isn’t spiritual truth; it’s astrological myth.
Gospels never called Jesus ‘God’ in childhood.
In his early life, the Gospels always call him “the child,” not “God.” Matthew 2:13-14 shows an angel telling Joseph, “Take the child and his mother…” If he was God, the angel would’ve said so.
Jesus wasn’t worshipped consistently.
If Jesus were truly God, he would have been worshipped constantly, day and night, from infancy to adulthood. Yet there’s no worship of him at age 5, 10, 15, 25… Why only once?
Even Mary didn’t worship him.
📖Luke 1:47 – Mary says, “My spirit rejoices in God my Savior.” She clearly saw God as someone other than her son.
No eyewitness to confirm this worship.
Who told Matthew this happened? He wasn’t there. No eyewitness is mentioned. The authors of the Gospels are unknown, and scholars admit their identities and sources are uncertain.
Prophets never worshipped Jesus.
Are the men in Matthew 2:11 greater than Abraham, Moses, and other prophets? None of the prophets worshipped Jesus or believed he was divine.
Trinitarians insult the prophets.
By claiming “wise men” worshipped Jesus while prophets didn’t, Trinitarians indirectly say that prophets lacked understanding. But God never deceives His prophets— Ezekiel 14:9 makes this clear.
Jesus said worship God – not himself.
📖John 4:22–23: The true worshippers will worship God.
📖John 17:3;If Jesus was truly God, he wouldn’t say: You are the only true God, and I am someone you sent.
📖John 20:17: I ascend to Father God and your Father, to my God and your God.
📖Mark 12:29: The Lord our God, the Lord is One.
Jesus never worshipped the Holy Spirit.
Jesus worshipped God alone. Not once did he direct worship to the Holy Spirit, or to himself. That breaks the foundation of the Trinity.

3. Random Worship Doesn’t Prove Divinity

📖Daniel 2:46 – Nebuchadnezzar worshipped Daniel.
📖1 Kings 1:23 – Nathan bowed before the king.
Worship in the Bible sometimes means respect—not always godhood.

The Greek word “προσεκύνησεν” (proskuneo) used in Matthew 2:11 also appears in:
📖John 9:38 – Translated as “worshipped.
📖Mark 5:6 – Translated as “fell on his knees.
The same word is used for humans. It does not prove divine worship, According to the Oxford English Dictionary, “proskuneo” means to show reverence, homage, or respect, not necessarily to a god.

If Jesus Is God, Why Didn’t Everyone Worship Him?

If Jesus is God, why didn’t everyone worship him?
Why didn’t the whole town, the temple priests, his siblings, his community, or even his disciples worship him from birth? Why only once, and only by a few strangers?
Christianity is based on corrupted authorship.
The Gospels were written by unknown people, years after Jesus. Many scenes weren’t witnessed directly. How did they know what happened when no one was there?
The entire worship story is a contradiction.
This verse contradicts Christian belief itself. Jesus was supposedly not declared divine until 30, yet strangers worshipped him as a toddler? This is mythology, not truth.

4. Worship Didn’t Start Because Jesus Said “Worship Me”

Jesus never told anyone to worship him. From the start of his ministry, he clearly stated he had a God and he worshipped Him alone.

When Jesus began preaching, he emphasized worshiping God, not himself.
In 📖John 17:3, Jesus says, “The only true God is the Father.” This proves Jesus did not claim divinity or demand worship.

The First “Worship” Came from People Who Tried to Kill Him

The visitors who “worshipped” Jesus as a child, the Magi, first went to King Herod, who planned to kill Jesus (Matthew 2:1-13), These men were not believers or followers. They came because of a star, showing respect or curiosity, not true worship, This “worship” was a one-time event by strangers, not a constant recognition of Jesus as God.

Jesus Made It Clear He Worshipped God, Not Himself
Throughout his life and ministry, Jesus demonstrated worship towards God alone:

He prayed to God and taught his followers to worship God the Father.
He never asked anyone to worship him. Instead, he consistently pointed to God as the one true deity.

This proves that the claim Jesus was worshipped as God from birth is illogical and unsupported by the text. Worship shown by a few strangers does not prove Jesus’s divinity, especially when Jesus himself taught worship belongs to God alone.

Additional Information

No one worshiped Jesus as God during his lifetime. He never claimed to be God, and no one ever called him God or practiced worshiping him as divine while he lived. If Jesus truly was God, people would have worshiped him constantly—from day to night, everywhere he went. Instead, worship and recognition of his divinity only appeared much later, after his mission and ascension to heaven, reflecting evolving beliefs rather than historical reality. Jesus always taught that worship belongs to God alone and never asked anyone to worship him. The word translated as “worship” in the Bible can also mean showing respect or honor, not necessarily divine worship. The Magi’s visit was driven by political and astrological motives, not genuine spiritual reverence. His own family and followers treated him as a teacher and prophet, not a deity. Plus, the Gospels were written decades later by unknown authors and contain many contradictions, making their accounts unreliable proof that Jesus was worshiped as God during his lifetim