Perfunctory Genuflections?

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July 12, 2021, 05:18:04 AM Last Edit: July 12, 2021, 05:24:19 AM by FineLinen
"Think of yourselves the way Christ Jesus thought of himself. He had equal status with God but didn't think so much of himself that he had to cling to the advantages of that status no matter what. Not at all. When the time came, he set aside the privileges of deity and took on the status of a slave, became human! Having become human, he stayed human. It was an incredibly humbling process. He didn't claim special privileges. Instead, he lived a selfless, obedient life and then died a selfless, obedient death and the worst kind of death at that, a crucifixion. Because of that obedience, God lifted him high and honored him far beyond anyone or anything, ever, so that all created beings in heaven and on earth, even those long ago dead and buried, will bow in worship before Jesus Christ, and call out in praise that he is the Master of all, to the glorious honor of God the Father." -msg

Not Perfunctory Genuflections

That in the name of Jesus every knee should bow (ινα εν τω ονοματ Ιησου παν γονυ καμψη). First aorist active subjunctive of καμπτω, old verb, to bend, to bow, in purpose clause with ινα. Not perfunctory genuflections whenever the name of Jesus is mentioned, but universal acknowledgment of the majesty and power of Jesus who carries his human name and nature to heaven. This universal homage to Jesus is seen in Romans 8:22; Ephesians 1:20-22 and in particular Revelation 5:13.

Under the earth (καταχθονιων). Homeric adjective for departed souls, subterranean, simply the dead. Here only in the N.T. (A.T. Robertson)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnExXYToQUo&list=OLAK5uy_l95xP8lJY2LIOXcQnTskUiTQjb3PksrE0&index=5

Are our broadest hopes broad enough? Shall there be a nook or abyss, in all the universe of God, finally unlightened by the Cross? Shall there be a sin, or sorrow, or pain unhealed? Is the very universe, is creation in all its extent, a field wide enough for the Son of God?

FineLinen

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July 17, 2021, 03:02:20 PM
God has highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: that in the name Jesus, every knee shall bow, of things in heaven, and things on earth, and in things under the earth; and that every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

NOTE

1. Every knee (the radical all).

2. Every tongue (the radical all).

3. Every dimension of heaven, earth & underworld. (the radical all).

4. In union with the Name of Jesus (en = in).

No being in any dimension of Fathers world will not worship Him.

The worship is not by perfunctory genuflections: NOT
Are our broadest hopes broad enough? Shall there be a nook or abyss, in all the universe of God, finally unlightened by the Cross? Shall there be a sin, or sorrow, or pain unhealed? Is the very universe, is creation in all its extent, a field wide enough for the Son of God?

Lazarus Short

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July 17, 2021, 07:21:42 PM
You might say, "Universal"!!!   :declare:
Socrates taught Plato.  Plato taught Aristotle.  Aristotle tutored the son of Philip of Macedon.  This boy grew up to become Alexander the Great, largely by slaughtering a lot of people.  That's philosophy.

Jesus spoke the Truth.  He blessed the poor.  He healed the sick.  He even raised the dead.  He died on a cross for us, lived again, and came back long enough to tell us to love one another.  That's religion.

YHVH = Behold the Nail, Behold the Hand = Jesus
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