I think, but do not know, that the "Christ is King" thought might be an incorrect and purposeful misdirection from the true Message of Christ.
My suspicion is that Christ was a messenger who never wanted to be worshiped, but his legacy was perverted by the early church, who wanted to have a monopoly on salvation, and misconstrued his message via the Council of Nicea and other early ecumenical councils, branding him more and more as a Savior who must be worshiped rather than a messenger whose parables should be contemplated.
The glaring omission of the Gospel of Thomas at the supposed behest of Bishop Athanasius seemingly supports this.
I don't know, but I do know that I fucking hate bureaucracy, and all bureaucracy, by it's very nature, is a subversion of faith.
The Council of Nicea might as well have been an HR meeting, speaking of greater good, while editing out all the 'problematic' parts that didn't jive with the growth of a newly powerful church.
I'm at work so don't have time to go in depth. Short explanation, I think your missing the forest for the trees. There's plenty of explanations, OT and NT to say Christ is King. But I also know your standings in Christ, so I'll respect your opinion
I'm at work so don't have time to go in depth
Quit your job and devote your life to spreading the Gospel on esoteric 3rd-wave Reddit clones
If I do that, who's gonna clean these toilets, shampoo these carpets, and replace these ballasts, while preaching the gospel?
He must have indeed wanted to be worshipped because at the last supper he said "this is my body, this is my blood..." This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that a man may eat of it and not die . . . the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
And along the lines..."you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven but through me"...
On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.
John 14:20
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:1
Thanks for the downvote, but can you at least articulate why you disagree with me?
I’m glad you asked: This entire post is a dumpster fire of Gnostic delusion and historical ignorance. 1. Jesus didn’t “just want to be a messenger” He is the Eternal Word. John 1:1 doesn’t say “He brought a nice message.” It says, “The Word was with God and the Word was God.” He wasn’t merely a prophet pointing to truth, He is Truth incarnate (John 14:6). The moment you reduce Christ to a “teacher” or “symbol,” you’ve stepped out of Christianity and into heretical soup. 2. Worship of Christ wasn’t invented at Nicea. Read the New Testament. Thomas falls down and says “My Lord and my God.” (John 20:28) The Apostles worship Him after the Resurrection. Early Christian hymns (Philippians 2:6–11) glorify Christ as divine. The First Council of Nicea didn’t “invent” anything. It defended what the Church had always believed — that the Son is of one essence (homoousios) with the Father. They simply codified what was already being proclaimed in the liturgy and preached by the martyrs long before Constantine ever showed up. 3. You can’t use the “Gospel of Thomas” as if it’s valid. That text is a 2nd-century Gnostic forgery. The early Church Fathers (including Irenaeus, who was trained by Polycarp, a disciple of John the Apostle) explicitly rejected it. Why? Because it wasn’t from the Apostles, and it reeked of Gnostic dualism — the same nonsense infecting your comment. 4. Christ explicitly said He is to be worshipped. “This is My body… This is My blood.” “The bread I will give for the life of the world is My flesh.” (John 6:51) “No one comes to the Father except through Me.” (John 14:6) If you don’t understand these aren’t just poetic metaphors, you’re reading like a modern materialist, not someone seeking God. 5. Christianity isn’t about “bureaucracy.” It’s about communion with the living God through the Church He established. Not some subjective, ego-driven idea of spirituality. The Council wasn’t some HR meeting. It was bishops, many of whom had been tortured for the Faith and preserving the true teaching against heresy. If you think they edited the Gospel for power, then you’ve bought into the same recycled Dan Brown garbage every pseudo-intellectual online does.
You want Christ without the Cross, truth without sacrifice, and a faith that never confronts your ego. That’s not Christianity. That’s spiritual masturbation. Christ didn’t die so you could follow your feelings. He died so you could be transformed and become like Him.
How can anyone respect the Word that is God if they cannot first respect the Word by giving it the punctuation it so sincerely deserves?
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