El Shaddai DWXI PPFI Dubai Chapter: Every Wednesday 8-9:30pm Gawain With God (Holy Trinity) = YHWH ( I AM THAT I AM) or YaHWeH or Jesus (I AM) or Holy Spirit..... In Scripture, the term worship was similarly broad in meaning, but in the early Christian centuries, theologians began to differentiate between different types of honor in order to make more clear which is due to God and which is not. As the terminology of Christian theology developed, the Greek term latria came to be used to refer to the honor that is due to God alone, and the term dulia came to refer to the honor that is due to human beings, especially those who lived and died in God’s friendship—in other words, the saints. Scripture indicates that honor is due to these individuals (Matt. 10:41b). A special term was coined to refer to the special honor given to the Virgin Mary, who bore Jesus—God in the flesh—in her womb. This term, hyperdulia (huper [more than]+ dulia = beyond dulia), indicates that the honor due to her as Christ’s own Mother is more than the dulia given to other saints. It is greater in degree, but still of the same kind. However, since Mary is a finite creature, the honor she is due is fundamentally different in kind from the latria owed to the infinite Creator. All of these terms—latria, dulia, hyperdulia—used to be lumped under the one English word worship. Sometimes when one reads old books discussing the subject of how particular persons are to be honored, they will qualify the word worship by referring to the worship of latria or the worship of dulia. To contemporaries and to those not familiar with the history of these terms, however, this is too confusing. Another attempt to make clear the difference between the honor due to God and that due to humans has been to use the words adore and adoration to describe the total, consuming reverence due to God and the terms venerate, veneration, and honor to refer to the respect due humans. Thus, Catholics sometimes say, We adore God but we honor his saints....
Posted on: Wed, 14 May 2014 13:32:27 +0000
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