Jesus should not be worshiped as God or anthing above the average man.

First off allow me to state that I am a muslim. Though many of my beliefs are have roots in my religion this one does not. I am commenly considered to be a rational, relatively intellegant human being, just like most other people. As such I strongly disagree with the way he is viewed in many christian related faiths. Just so you know, I'm not going to use bible or quran verses a million times [like some before me] to help back my arguments, a few here and there will do nicely. Nor am I going to try and shove my beliefs down my opponants throat. This is going to be a simple debate, that is argued through a logical POV. Now, LET THE DEBATE BEGIN!!! [lol] I'm not christian, but much of my family is and as a result I catch myself attending church with them sometimes. When I do, I tend to find myself very, uncomfortable and confused, because I'll often hear some church gooer scream something like "PRAISE JESUS!", or "PRAISE THE LORD!" I hear this far too often, to the point where I ask myself weather its Jesus their worshiping or God? In most cases I find that it is indeed Jesus that is being worshiped. Not that Jesus isn't worthy of praise, [I mean come on! The guy lived a sinless life and was born of a virgin mother. If that isn't worthy of praise, nothing is.] he simply isn't worthy of worship. No human is. As far as the "Praise the lord thing goes" half the time I'm not sure weather or not people are reffering to God or Jesus when they say this. Now, some people would argue that "Well Jesus was born of a virgin mother, and lived a sinnless life. If that doesn't scream DIVINE SIGNIFIGANCE, nothing can.", and those people would be right, but some people forget that there were many before Jesus with a unique touch of divinity. People like Samson, Moses, and Noah would be perfect examples. Samson completely destroyed over 1000 Palestinans with a donkey's jaw bone and with his immense strength. If you ask me that pretty divine as well, but people don't go around worshiping Samson, or saying "PRAISE SAMSON!", now do they? Moses rose the Hebrew slaves up out of Egypt and parted the red sea. But we don't worship him as the son of god. And Noah built a GIGANTIC, durable, ark, and gathered 2 of every species of animal onto it while he was supposedly between the ages of 500-600 years old! Nuff said. Point is that there were pleanty of prophets before Jesus who preformed spectacular acts and were, themselves, spectacular humans, but people back in these times had enough common sense not to worship these guys as "God", "The only begotten son of God", or some odd mixture of the two. Jesus, like everybody else, walked the same earth as us, and breathed the same air as us. No man, I don't care who he is, should be worshiped if he walked the same earth, breathed the same air, and did the same crap as us. As a muslim I don't believe Jesus died on the cross, but I do believe that he died, as do all christians and muslims. [though christians believed he came back from the dead]Jesus died, why worship anything that can die a mortal death just like the rest of us!? I believe that Jesus was a bleassed prophet. Blessed with the glory of God through the holy spirit, and able to touch the lives and hearts of those around him because of it. I also believe that like all other prophets he was a perosn with a purpose, that purpose was to spread love, faith, and the teachings of peace to the world. Cross or no cross Jesus got that point across, and thats it. I,as a Muslim, also believe in the holy trinity to a certian extent. I believe in the "Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit" in this context. "The Father" being God, but not in a sense that God is exclusively the father of Jesus, but in a sense that God is the father of all things and that Jesus is just one of his many children. "The Son", being Jesus, who was the son of Mary and Johseph. And "The Holy Spirit", thats pretty self explanitory. The holy spirit was the spirit within him that allowed his to accomplish such feats as walking on watr and bringing back the dead ect. He has no divinity beyond that. He's not God, he's not the only begotten son of God, and he certianly isnt any odd fusion of the two concepts. I don't think Jesus should be worshiped, I think thats already been established, what funny is that Jesus himself renounced any forms of worship, and openly worshiped God himself. Now what kind of sence would it make for Jesus to be worshiping God if he was God? Thats just not logical. In fact there are pleanty of places in the Bible that relay Jesus's relationship with God. [Matthew 4:2] And when he [Jesus] had fasted for forty days and forty nights, he was afterward hungered. Question? Why would Jesus fast for God if he was God? Can't answer that logically can ya? [Matthew 4:10] Then saith Jesus unto him, "Get thee hence, Satan, for it is written, thou shalt worship the lord thy God, and only him shalt thou serve. In this passage Jesus outright says thatonly GOD is to be worshiped, NOTHING ELSE. And Jesus in no way implied that he was God. Whats more; this entire time Satan had been trying to get Jesus to worship him by offering him the world, LITERALLY! Now, I want you Jesus Freaks to honestly ask yourselves, what kind of sense would it make for Satan to be trying to get God [if Jesus were God] to kneel at his feet. He's God. I'm pretty sure Satan knows God bows to no being. Not only that but Satan was offering him the world if he did. The world, and everything in it belongs to God. It makes no sense at all for Satan to be trying to bribe GOD with things already in Gods possesion. That would be like me walking up to you and saying "Kneel at my feet and I will give you this." then I point to your house, as if its actually mine to give away. Ultimately I'm not trying to offend, upset, convert, judge, or look down upon anyone with these beliefs, and I hope you all don't take it that way. [except for the Jesus Freak comment. I couldn't get mad at you for being upset about that] No person should look down upon another religion that worships God in a positive manner. Perhaps I'm wrong. Perhaps there isn't a flaw in the christian faith and in fact, the only thing that is flawed is my own logic. Perhaps not. Either way is my opponants argument. I hope this debate can go on as friendly [and indiscriminatly] as possible. Peace and blessings of Allah be upon you. :)