It's hard for any trinitarian to comprehend that Jesus as both a man and as a spirit being (which he was before his earthly mission) worshipped the one he called his "God".....that is what you do when someone is your God....you worship them....no?
John 20:17....
When Mary Magdalene first recognized the resurrected Jesus.....
"Jesus said to her, “Stop clinging to Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to My brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and My God and your God.’” (NASB)
Jesus has a God (the one he worships) on earth AND in heaven. His God is our God, and his Father is "Our Father" as any Christian who has ever prayed the Lord's prayer has to know.
His "
brothers" are his disciples who all worship the same God as he does. (2 Corinthians 8:5-6) He is not the 'father' of his own 'brothers'.
After his return to heaven, Jesus gave the Revelation to John, which he said was from "God". (Revelation 1:1) "God" gave the revelation to Jesus who then gave an angel the assignment to deliver it to John. There is the chain of command. (1 Corinthians 11:3)
In Revelation 3:12, Jesus said...
"The one who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will not go out from it anymore; and I will write on him the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God, and My new name." (NASB)
Jesus referred to his Father as "my God" four times in that one verse. Jesus also speaks of his "own new name", which scripture confirms he has many names according to the role he is fulfilling. Yahweh has only one name. (Deuteronomy 6:4; Psalm 83:18)
Jesus spoke of his new name in Philippians 2:9-11, where it is acknowledged that after the success of his faithful mission on earth, his Father rewarded him.....
"For this reason also God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." (NASB)
Several questions are raised in these verses......If Jesus was God....how, after his return to heaven, can he be "highly exalted" and "given a name that is above every name"? If he was God, there is no personage greater, or name higher than what he already has. (Psalm 83:18 KJV)
When it says that "at the name of Jesus every knee will bow" is that an act of worship? NO! it is an act of obeisance, as it was in every other instance of Jesus being "worshipped". Bowing in respect is not necessarily worship as the scriptures show.
No angel or man would worship someone who is not Yahweh. Not once in all of scripture is Jesus called Yahweh.
And "every tongue" confessing that "Jesus is Lord" is not confessing that he is "God", but acknowledging that he is God's son "to the glory of God the Father"....Jesus' whole mission was to glorify his Father, not himself.
You miss all the vital words "written for our instruction", blinded by Christendom's fake doctrines and therefore failing to worship the same God as Jesus and his first century disciples did. There is someone causing that blindness. (2 Corinthians 4:3-4)