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ABOUT Sunday, October 4, 2015

My name is Keith Thompson. I How can Jesus be God if He Himself Worshiped God? Pt. 1
am a Christian apologist and
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In this series of rebuttals I am going to tackle specific biblical texts that Muslims cite where Jesus is
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depicted as worshiping and praying to God in order to undermine Christian belief in the Deity of
Christ and his essential coequality to the Father. I will show that when these passages are read in
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their immediate and wider contexts they do absolutely nothing to refute the fact that Jesus is
identified as the eternal, divine Son of God who became man for our redemption.
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- Black Hebrew Israelites The following arguments are typical of the kind of objections raised by Muslim polemicists against
Debunked the teaching of the historic Christian faith concerning the Divinity of the Lord Jesus:
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Jesus never instructed his disciples to worship him 
- Atheists Don't Exist
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- Reformed Answers on the
‘When you pray, say Our Father which art in heaven.’ (Luke 11:2) 
Roman Corruption of
Christianity ‘In that day, you shall ask me nothing. Whatsoever you ask of the Father in my name.’
- Word of Faith Teachers: (John 16:23) 
Origins & Errors of Their
Teaching ‘The hour cometh and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit
- Joel Osteen: Origins and and in truth; for the Father seeketh such to worship him.’ (John 4:23) 
Errors of his Teaching
- Historical Case for Paul's
If Jesus was God, he would have sought worship for himself  
Apostleship: Critique of
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Since he didn’t, instead he sought worship for God in the heavens, therefore, he was not
God. 

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Jesus worshipped the only true God 
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Christ's Resurrection ‘that they might know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.’
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- Refuting the Lie John Invented
Sayings of Jesus ‘he continued all night in prayer to God.’ (Luke 6:12) 
- Shabir Ally & Raymond
Brown’s Redaction Criticism of ‘Just as the son of man did not come to be served, but to serve’ (Matthew 20:28) 
John
- Answering Muslims: Is Jesus How did Jesus pray to God? 
a Son Among Tons?
- Refuting Bart Ehrman’s
‘he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, ‘My Father’ (Matthew 26:39)
“Passion Contradictions”
Muslims Parrot
‘During the days of Jesus’ life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries
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and Simple and tears to the one who could save him from death, and he was heard because of his
- Catholic Idol Worshiper's Big reverent submission.’ (Hebrews 5:7) 
Justification Lie
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Answering Muslims pleading to be saved from death? No man, sane or insane, prays to himself! Surely the
- Old Testament Genocide?: answer must be a resounding ‘No.’ Jesus was praying to ‘the only true God.’ Jesus was the
Answering "Atheists" servant of the One Who sent him. 
- The Bible and Slavery:
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Can there be a clearer proof that Jesus was not God? 
- Absurdities of Youtube Atheist
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The Quran confirms that Jesus called for the worship of the Only True God: 

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- Proof Virgin Mary is not the
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- Jeffrey Daugherty's "Apostle
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- Refutation of Heretic Jesse
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- Myth of Imputed
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- A Biblical Case for
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-Answers to Theological
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- Is Muhammad Predicted in
the Bible? (Keith Thompson vs.
Inamullah Mumtaz)
- Is Papal Primacy Primitive?
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Minister)
- Is the Roman Catholic Papacy
Biblical and Historical? (Keith
Thompson vs. Roman Catholic)
- Papal Primacy and Canon
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Catholic)
- Catholic Apologist Admits he
can't Historically Prove Peter
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More (Keith Thompson vs.
Fidei Defensor SPQR)
- Is Justification by Faith
Alone? (Keith Thompson vs.
Catholic Peter Dimond)
- Is Paul a True Apostle? (Keith
Thompson vs. Muslim Nadir
Ahmed)
- Does the Immaculate
Conception Contradict
Scripture and History? (Keith
Thompson vs. Richard a Roman
Catholic)
-Infant Baptism Debate: Chris
Gautreau vs. Zachary Kueker
(written debate)
- Is God Sovereign Over All?
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- Is Christianity a Religion of
Peace? (Keith Thompson vs.
Muslim Sami Zaatari)
- Discussion with two Catholics
on Interpreting Scripture
- Is Free Will Biblical? (Keith
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With the foregoing in perspective we can now begin addressing these blatant distortions of what
God’s revealed Word, the Holy Bible, actually says regarding the Person and majesty of Christ.
Jesus’ Instructions Prove that Islam is a False Religion
To begin with, these texts all call into question the prophetic claims of Muhammad since they all
basically affirm that the God whom Jesus prayed to and worshiped is the Father, specifically his
Father.
Note, for instance, what John 4:23 says in context:
“The woman said to Him, ‘Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. Our fathers worshipped
on this mountain, but you all say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to
worship.’  Jesus said to her, ‘Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when neither on this
mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. You worship what you do not know;
WE know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. Yet the hour is coming, and is now
here, when the true worshippers will worship THE FATHER in spirit and truth. For THE FATHER
seeks such to worship Him. God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship Him in
spirit and truth.” John 4:19-24
Since Jesus clearly referred to God as Father, this means that could not have been a Muslim
since the deity proclaimed by Muhammad is a father to no one, not even to Jews or Christians:
The Jews and Christians say: We are sons of Allah and His loved ones. Say: Why then doth
He chastise you for your sins? Nay, ye are but mortals of His creating. He forgiveth whom
He will, and chastiseth whom He will. Allah's is the Sovereignty of the heavens and the
earth and all that is between them, and unto Him is the journeying. S. 5:18 Pickthall
In fact, the highest relationship one can have with Allah is merely that of a slave to master
relationship:
And they say, 'The All-merciful has taken unto Himself a son. You have indeed advanced
something hideous! The heavens are wellnigh rent of it and the earth split asunder, and
the mountains wellnigh fall down crashing for that they have attributed to the All-merciful
a son; and it behoves not the All-merciful to take a son. None is there in the heavens and
earth but he comes to the All-merciful as a servant; S. 19:88-93 – cf. Q. 2:116; 6:101; 21:26;
39:4; 72:3
Christ, however, plainly stated that a person must become more than slave if s/he desires to
abide in God’s house permanently. S/he must be set freed by God’s unique beloved Son who
came into the world for the express purpose of granting his followers the right to become
children of the living God:
“The true Light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world. He was in the
world, and the world was created through Him, yet the world did not know Him. He came
to His own, and His own people did not receive Him. Yet to all who received Him, He gave
the power to become sons of God, to those who believed in His name, who were born not
of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” John 1:9-13
“Jesus answered them, ‘Truly, truly I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin. Now
a slave does not remain in the house forever, but a son remains forever. Therefore if the
Son sets you free, you shall be free indeed.’” John 8:34-36
“But when the fullness of time came, God sent forth His Son, born from a woman, born
under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the
adoption as sons. And because you are sons, God has sent forth into our hearts the Spirit
of His Son, crying, ‘Abba, Father!’ Therefore you are no longer a servant, but a son, and if
a son, then an heir of God through Christ.” Galatians 4:4-7 – cf. Romans 8:3, 9-17
Hence, the very passages which Muslims thought helped their case end up actually proving that
Islam cannot be the religion that Jesus preached. After all, Jesus worshiped and referred to God
as his/the Father, whereas the god of Muhammad is a father to no one. As such, Jesus could not
have been worshiping the same God that Muhammad proclaimed, and therefore he could not
have been a Muslim.
This in turn means that Muhammad wasn’t a true prophet since he erroneously thought that his
religion was the same as that of Jesus and his disciples:
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- The Historical Case for Paul's
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Tabernacle
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