JW's: Worship Jesus as Jehovah (Hebrews 1:6 - proskyne�)

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JW's: Worship Jesus as Jehovah (Hebrews 1:6 - proskyne�)

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Hebrews 1:6
But when He again brings the firstborn into the world, He says: “Let all the angels of God worship Him.� (NKJV)

Insight on the Scriptures: True, Psalm 97, which the apostle evidently quotes at Hebrews 1:6, refers to Jehovah God as the object of the ‘bowing down,’ and still this text was applied to Christ Jesus. (Ps 97:1, 7) However, the apostle previously had shown that the resurrected Christ is “the reflection of [God’s] glory and the exact representation of his very being.� (Heb 1:1-3) Hence, if what we understand as “worship� is apparently directed to the Son by angels, it is in reality being directed through him to Jehovah God (Volume 2, Obeisance)
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1200003293

Question #1: Why do the Jehovah's Witnesses teach that the worship that is taking place is directed through the Son unto the Father when Hebrews 1:6 actually teaches that it is to the Son?

Question #2: Why does the New World Translation render the Greek word proskyne� as "obeisance" and not "worship" if in reality it is being directed to the Father?
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/l/r1/lp-e?q=Hebrews+1%3A6

Question #3: By affirming that Psalm 97:1 applies to Jesus Christ do the Jehovah's Witnesses realize that by their admission they are affirming that YHWH (to whom they call "Jehovah") of Psalm 97:1 refers to the Lord Jesus?

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Yes, it is. Are you sure you can't see it?

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Faber wrote:Yes, it is.
No it is not!
Faber wrote: Are you sure you can't see it?
I have already answered this question (see link below)
http://debatingchristianity.com/forum/v ... 185#867185
INDEX: More bible based ANSWERS
http://debatingchristianity.com/forum/v ... 81#p826681


"For if we live, we live to Jehovah, and if we die, we die to Jehovah. So both if we live and if we die, we belong to Jehovah" -
Romans 14:8

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