We are only to bow to God. Jesus allowed people to prostrate themselves to him.
Yes but to simply prostrate yourself to someone doesn't make them God. There were a lot of people who bowed to others in the Bible, with the text even using the same form of words that were used when people bowed to Jesus, this does not make them the one God,l however. Your argument must be consistent for it to be believable and crediable.
Genesis 33:3: Jacob bowed to his brother Esau
Exodus 18:7: Moses bowed to his father-in-law
Ruth 2:10: Ruth bowed to Boaz
1 Samuel 20:41: David bowed to Jonathan
1 Samuel 24:8: David bowed to King Saul
1 Samuel 25:3: Abigail bowed to David
Daniel 2:46: Nebuchadnezzar bowed to Daniel
These, and many other, occurrences of the verb
proskuneo (in the LXX) which is often translated as
worship in the NT.
You are not accounting to the fact that no one can conquer without Jesus.
Yes, and Jesus could not conquer without the Father. So the same way Jesus followers are reliant on him to conquer, Jesus was reliant on the Father when he conquered, nonetheless, it is the Father who is the source of the throne. The Father didn't have to conquer or do anything to sit on the throne, Jesus did and his followers did, thus Jesus isn't the Father or the one God and had to DO things to be granted the privilege of sitting on the throne, the same way his followers do.
God didn’t pretend to come as a man. Only God in the flesh could do what Jesus did. You are the one who fails to realize that.
I don't see any rational behind your above statement. For example, I believe Jesus is the most highest and esteemed person in creation who isn't God and was the very first thing God created, he existed alongside God as a spirit being and was identical to God except for the fact God created him and was therefore his God. Jesus then came to earth as a man and died for us. Why could this understanding not be a viable understanding, please explain why
only God in the flesh could do what Jesus did and not a created spirit being.
If Jesus is not God, then how is he living through all the saved?
Sorry but I do not understand your question. Was your question "how are all livings things saved through him if he is not God", if so I will answer this question, if this is not what you asked please just say so.
As I said in my last response I believe Jesus was the first created thing and was and is the highest esteemed thing in creation and is second only to God himself. Man is a slave to sin because of Adam sinned and therefore we inherited his sinful nature because of him, "
through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because they had all sinned" (Romans 5:12), Jesus came down to earth
as a Man and acted as the replacement of Adam with his death being a ransom for the sins and death caused because of Adam.
There is NOTHING in the bible that suggest God had to be the ransom, there is nothing in the bible that states that there needed to be anything other than a perfect human life that needed to act as a ransom to save mankind.
Your problem with that is that the apostles didn’t come from heaven, but Jesus did. Your problem with that is Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit and the apostles were not. Your problem with that is Jesus’ blood takes away the sins of the world, the apostles blood doesn’t, and never will yours or any other humans. The problem with what you say is that the world was made through Jesus; the world was not made through any apostle or disciple. Another problem you have with the logic you presented is that Jesus lives in all the saved by his Spirit, and no spirit of any man can do the same.
As I've said Jesus was a creation of God, Gods first creation, in fact Hebrews 1:3 states "He [Jesus] is the reflection of God’s glory and the exact
charaktēr of his very being".
charaktér - Strongs 5481
Definition: a tool for engraving
Usage: an impression, representation, exact reproduction; a graving-tool.
The
charaktēr in Greek refers to the impression given off by a signet ring, a signet ring has a mark or key that you press into hot wax leaving an impression. This is how Jesus is described in comparison to God, Jesus is the
impression of God, he is NOT God himself but
his impression. What does this have to do with anything, as the Hebrews 1:3 states Jesus is the "
exact impression of God very being", the same way a human son has the features and learned characteristics of his human father, Jesus, a perfect and divine being, resembles the Father so much he can be called the "
exact impression of God very being". Hence why seeing Jesus is like seeing the Father, this isn't to say Jesus is the Father.