Christ's Body

[TheInquisitor]

Ok, just a random question. I probably need to go to bed, so forgive me if this is a dumb question haha.

If Christ’s very flesh is a creation since he is 100% human, would worshiping his body be Idolatry?

Thanks all ,
Ryan

 

[DJK100]

Ok, just a random question. I probably need to go to bed, so forgive me if this is a dumb question haha.

If Christ’s very flesh is a creation since he is 100% human, would worshiping his body be Idolatry?

Thanks all ,
Ryan

How could worshiping the true God ever be considered idolatry. Just because Jesus, the second person of the tinity is 100% human and 100% God, does not diminish from the fact that he is still God. So worshiping the true God cannot be idolatry.

Also, Christ is not a “creation.”

 

[po18guy]

No. His flesh, at his conception, was forever unified with His divine nature. It was that flesh which redeemed the world. Read John 1:1-3. Jesus created not only His own mother, He created His own flesh for our salvation.

 

[AlltheRoses]

Ok, just a random question. I probably need to go to bed, so forgive me if this is a dumb question haha.

If Christ’s very flesh is a creation since he is 100% human, would worshiping his body be Idolatry?

Thanks all ,
Ryan

It’s not a dumb question. Don’t worry. No honest question is ever dumb

Anyway, I would define idolatry as worshiping as God something or someone that is not, in fact, God. That doesn’t apply to worshiping Christ’s body, because Christ’s body is God. The human aspect and the divine aspect of Christ are perfectly unified, so that to worship Christ’s human aspect (or His body) is also to worship His divine aspect, and to worship His divine aspect is also to worship His human aspect.

 

[Cristiano]

Ok, just a random question. I probably need to go to bed, so forgive me if this is a dumb question haha.

If Christ’s very flesh is a creation since he is 100% human, would worshiping his body be Idolatry?

Thanks all ,
Ryan

Yes it would be idolatry if you were to deny his divine nature or if you were to consider it as divided from his human nature.

 

[TheInquisitor]

Yes it would be idolatry if you were to deny his divine nature or if you were to consider it as divided from his human nature.

Maybe that’s what I was wondering about. Can’t forget about the Hypostatic Union

 

[jochoa]

Ok, just a random question. I probably need to go to bed, so forgive me if this is a dumb question haha.

If Christ’s very flesh is a creation since he is 100% human, would worshiping his body be Idolatry?

Thanks all ,
Ryan

Another concept for your consideration:
Catholicism knows He was begotten (not made), through Him all things were made, and He came down from Heaven.
So what if God from everything/nothingness came to exist as a single celled being, that could think, feel, and will? Then that single cell could have thought of the plan, caused creation, begat a Son that is one in exact being, and come down from Heaven.
Therefore, Christ’s very flesh is not a creation.