Tambora Romans 1 is talking about people who carry on wilfully sinning once they know the truth. Not about those who don't believe that Jesus is God! And by wilfully sinning, we worship the creature rather than the creator. To worship the creator then we are to turn from the lusts of our flesh and do his will and worship the father in Spirit and in truth.
From what I can see from what people of you church post, your church teaches that it is ok to sin even wilfully and you are still saved regardless!
So who's worshipping the creature and not the creator? It's those who live by the will of their flesh and not by the will of God.
Here's the rest of the chapter of Romans 1 after that which you have quoted.
Romans 1 v 26 onward
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;.Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
Since you refuse to give a clear answer, let it be known that Marhig says that it's ok to worship beings other than God Himself. (Marhig, you may, if you so choose, say I'm wrong and correct me, and I will accept your correction.)
God, however, says otherwise.
SpoilerAnd God spoke all these words, saying:*“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.*“You shall have no other gods before Me.*“You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; *you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, *but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments. - Exodus 20:1-6 http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus20:1-6&version=NKJV
Spoiler(for you shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God), - Exodus 34:14 http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus34:14&version=NKJV
SpoilerThen Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you return to the Lord with all your hearts, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtoreths from among you, and prepare your hearts for the Lord, and serve Him only; and He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.” - 1 Samuel 7:3 http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Samuel7:3&version=NKJV
SpoilerThen Jesus said to him, “Away with you, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve.’” - Matthew 4:10 http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew4:10&version=NKJV
And many other places in the Bible...
Yet, we see Jesus being worshipped in a couple of places. Why were the people worshipping Him not rebuked? If Jesus is not God, as you say, then they were wrong for worshipping Him! Yet even Jesus Himself did not rebuke his disciples when they woshipped Him.
From https://www.gotquestions.org/Jesus-worshipped.html:
SpoilerFrom the beginning of Jesus’ life, we see examples of Him being worshiped. As soon as the Magi laid eyes on the infant Christ, “they bowed down and worshiped Him” (Matthew 2:11). The Bible records the initial response Jesus received when He made His triumphal entry into Jerusalem: “So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying out, ‘Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!’” (Matthew 21:9;*John 12:13) The word hosanna is a plea for salvation and an expression of adoration. This word used by the crowd is definitely a form of worship.
Just after Jesus amazed the disciples by walking on water, “those who were in the boat worshiped him, saying, ‘Truly you are the Son of God’” (Matthew 14:33). Two more memorable examples of Jesus accepting worship occurred just after His resurrection. Some of the women (Matthew 21:1;*Mark 16:1;*Luke 24:10) were on their way to tell the disciples of the resurrection when Jesus met them on their way. When they realized it was He, they “came to him, clasped his feet and worshiped him” (Matthew 28:9).
Then there is the case of Thomas, who didn't believe Jesus had risen from the dead despite the other disciples’ testifying to that fact. It had been about a week since the resurrection, and Thomas still doubted it. Jesus, knowing Thomas doubted, appeared to him and showed him the nail marks in His hands and feet and the wound in His side. How did Thomas respond? “Thomas said to him, ‘My Lord and my God!’” (John 20:28). In none of these instances do we see Jesus telling those worshiping Him to stop, as did mere men and even angels who were being worshiped wrongly by others (Acts 10:25–26;*Revelation 19:9–10).
So Marhig, were the people who worshipped Jesus wrong in doing so? If so, why does the Bible present the worship of Him in a positive light?
Or could it be that Jesus IS God, and is therefore worthy (according to the verses I provided above) of the worship He was and is given?
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