people do not understand worship. the purest form of worship is imitation. paul told his followers to imitate him as he imitated christ.
if it can be said of paul, who no thinks was anything but a man, then it can be said of any man.
my recent textbook purchase makes it clear that it was paul who established christianity as a religion with all of its trappings and trimmings. its paulianity, without any doubt.
so i have been noticing and saying little sippets of the same thing for year and always plowed up a chorus of denial when i i dare mentioned it. the spiritual leaders in my life could not have been more ignorant if they had tried, and tried hard.