Worship, Adam or Jesus?
Should a human who is created by God be worshiped? Should anyone other than God be worshiped? This is the question which we are looking at today from the perspective of the Koran and the Holy Bible.
THE KORANIC ACCOUNT
“We created you and gave you form. Then We said to the angels: ‘Prostrate yourselves before Adam. (1)’”
“To God alone is true worship due (2).”
“Jesus is like Adam in the sight of God. He created him from dust and then said to him ‘B’ and he was (3).”
“The Messiah, the son of Mary, was no more than an Apostle: (4)”
“He (Jesus) was but a mortal whom We favored and made an example to the Israelites (5).”
“Unbelievers are those that say: ‘God is the Messiah, the son of Mary.’ For the Messiah, Himself, said: ‘Children of Israel, serve God, my Lord and your Lord.’ He that worships other deities besides God, God will deny him Paradise, and the Fire shall be his home. None shall help the evil-doers (6).”
“Then God will say: ‘Jesus son of Mary, did you ever say to mankind: “Worship me and my mother as gods besides God?” ‘Glory be to You,’ he will answer, ‘I could never have claimed what I have no right to (7).”
Say: (To the Christians) ‘If the Lord of Mercy had a son, I would be the first to worship him (8).’
COMMENTARY ON THE KORAN
Worship is to bend the knee. To prostate yourself is also a form of worship beyond that of bending the knee. God, in the Koran, tells the angels to prostate themselves before Adam. This is worship. God is telling his angels to worship one of his mortal creations. I find this baffling. Elsewhere in the Koran we are told only to worship God. Only to God is true worship worthy. Was not the worship of Adam by the angels true worship? Why would the god of the Koran order something other than himself to be worshiped? Jesus, in the Koran, says that one is to worship only God. To worship someone other than God is to make one an evil-doer. God, thus, told all his angels to do an evil act making them evil-doers and mortal if they were not mortal to begin with. Satan showed more good sense than the god who ordered all the angels to worship Adam.
We read that from the god of the Koran’s point of view that Adam and Jesus are the same. Yet, Adam is to be worshiped and Jesus is not to be worshiped. The Koran states that Jesus is mortal, not the Son of God and not Divine. In the Koran, Jesus is reported as saying that He is not due worship. Those who believe that Jesus is the Son of God and Divine are called unbelievers. The Moslems are told to say that if God were to have a Son, then they would be the first to worship Him. God did have a Son. We celebrate His birth at Christmas. The Moslems do not worship Him so it is a lie that they would worship God’s Son if He had one.
THE BIBLICAL ACCOUNT
“… I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me (9).”
“For you shalt worship no other god: for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God (10).”
“… I will not give my glory unto another (11).”
“Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel, and his redeemer the Lord of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God (12).”
“… When he bringeth in the first begotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him (13).”
“And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshiped him: … (14)”
“And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am your fellow servant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: (15)”
COMMENTARY ON THE BIBLICAL ACCOUNT
There is one God consisting of three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (Matt. 28:19), each one of which is worthy of worship. There is no other God and He is jealous and will not give his glory to another. He would not authorize the worship of anyone else. There is only one Spirit who is able to be in many individuals at the same time.
Notice that the King of Israel and His redeemer the Lord of Hosts are two different individuals. Yet the two collectively is referred to as I. The King of Israel is God the Father and the Lord of Hosts is God the Son who took on flesh and was later named Jesus.
When the wise men found the child, Jesus, with his mother they worshiped the child and not the mother. Jesus accepted worship.
Jesus is worthy of your worship and your life. If you would like to have eternal life you can invite Jesus into your heart today. A sample prayer is, “Lord Jesus Christ, forgive me of my sin and come into my heart.”The angel who had the testimony of Jesus knew that worship is for God alone. Who will you worship?
REFFERENCES
1. The Koran, Page 109 Paragraph 7:11
2. The Koran, Page 321 Paragraph 39:2
3. The Koran, Page 47 Paragraph 3:59
4. The Koran, Page 88 Paragraph 5:73
5. The Koran, Page 346 Paragraph 43:60
6. The Koran, Page 87 Paragraph 5:70
7. The Koran, Page 92 Paragraph 5:116,117
8. The Koran, Page 347 Paragraph 43:82
9. The Holy Bible, Isaiah 46:9
10. The Holy Bible, Exodus 34:14
11. The Holy Bible, Isaiah 48:11
12. The Holy Bible, Isaiah 44:6
13. The Holy Bible, Hebrews 1:6
14. The Holy Bible, Matthew 2:11
15. The Holy Bible, Revelation 19:10
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