When Christian evangelists speak of the "Lord," often it is unclear about whom they are speaking. When they pray to the "Lord" in one of their public displays of ostentatious prayer (which, by the way, Jesus instructed them specifically not to do), one frequently doesn't know whether they are praying to God or if instead they are praying to Jesus. Sometimes they'll let it slip out and specifically say the name "Jesus," but most of the time it's anyone's guess which one they're talking about. They constantly blur the distinction between Jesus and God, and, in fact, will tell you that Jesus is God.

But to pray to and to worship Jesus in the same way that one should worship the Father is to violate the very teachings of Jesus himself. When a young man approached Jesus, kneeled down to him, and addressed him as "Good Master," Jesus answered him by saying, "Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God." In another translation it reads, "Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone." It could not possibly be any plainer! Jesus meant for us to worship only God and here makes the clear distinction between himself and God. Jesus claimed to be the Son of God, and he claimed to be one with God (to have God's nature in him), but nowhere did he claim that he is God. That is a distortion of truth that arises not from the teachings of Jesus or from anything explicitly stated in scripture, but from the interpretations and doctrine of worldly theologians.

The sin of Adam was that he doubted God and that he desired to be as God himself (by eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge). Jesus is the perfect antithesis of this sinful pridefulness, and his is the perfect example of how we ourselves should relate to God...in perfect humility, obedience, faith, and submission. He certainly did not make the same sinful error that Adam made by imagining that he could be a god unto himself. He gave God all the credit by saying, "I can of mine own self do nothing," and by doing so, he serves as our own perfect example of faith and submission. It is impossible for Jesus to be an example of what we ourselves should be and also to be indistinguishable from God. The distinction between Jesus and God is critical to a proper understanding of true Christianity. Any blurring of that crucial distinction is something that should be regarded with careful skepticism and extreme distrust.

The word "Trinity" and the phrase "God the Son," terms which serve to blur the important distinction between Christ and God and so often spoken by evangelists and theologians, are not even once contained in the Bible! This false doctrine, the teaching that Jesus is God, originated not with Christ or with God, but arose from the intellect of errant man.

Jesus Christ is the manifestation of God to all the world. The Holy Spirit is God manifested in the heart of the individual believer. But only God the Father is actually God, for no finite vessel fraught with its inherent limitations is capable of holding that which is limitless and infinite, as is the Father God.

"Thou shalt have none other gods before me" was a commandment that Jesus Christ followed to the letter, and it is his example that we ourselves must strive to follow. To ignore his example and place another god--even Christ himself--in the rightful place of the God worshiped and adored by Jesus is to show both Christ and God great disrespect.

To believe the absurd notion that Jesus is God is to cast Jesus in the role of the wicked Satanists, who worship themselves and pay homage to their own selfish egos. For if Jesus were actually God, he would be worshiping himself!

Jesus didn't worship himself. He worshiped only God, and we ourselves should surely follow his example by worshiping the same God that Jesus did.