Not sure how the religion now called Judaism defines "person" or "God" if they think they can worship God without worshipping at least ONE person ...
I answer that, "Person" signifies what is most perfect in all nature—that is, a subsistent individual of a rational nature. Hence, since everything that is perfect must be attributed to God, forasmuch as His essence contains every perfection, this name "person" is fittingly applied to God; not, however, as it is applied to creatures, but in a more excellent way; as other names also, which, while giving them to creatures, we attribute to God; as we showed above when treating of the names of God (I:13:2.
Question 29. The divine persons | Article 3. Whether the word "person" should be said of God?
Summa Theologiae | First Part
https://www.newadvent.org/summa/1029.htm#article3
I'd answer, we are told several times not to worship a non-person ... like stone or wood. Like a passage in Jeremias that some misuse when they want to speak about Christmas trees.
I beheld till thrones were placed, and the Ancient of days sat: his garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like clean wool: his throne like flames of fire: the wheels of it like a burning fire
[Daniel 7:9]
If the Ancient of Days has a head, He's presumably a person. Here is another one:
I beheld therefore in the vision of the night, and lo, one like the son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and he came even to the Ancient of days: and they presented him before him And he gave him power, and glory, and a kingdom: and all peoples, tribes and tongues shall serve him: his power is an everlasting power that shall not be taken away: and his kingdom that shall not be destroyed
[Daniel 7:13-14]
Serve sounds quite a bit like worship, and receiving worships sounds quite a bit like power and glory.
It's the same thing in Aramaic. "Son of man" (Bar'nash) is how you say "human being" in Aramaic. That's all it means. It's just a way to say "person." The verse in Daniel is in reference to a series of visions of various allegorical beasts. The last vision is "one like a bar'nash, meaning "one like a human." It's just a way of saying the last vision looked like a man as opposed to a beast. This figure was interpreted Messianically, but "son of man" did not mean "Messiah." The normal usage was just for a person. It might denote the Messiah in a high context way (like calling him "the Man"), but the meaning of bar'nash is still "human being."
Quoting a reddit.
So, that second person clearly is even called "a person" ... but how is he spoken of back before the schism of AD 33? Here is another view:
In a branch of Jewish belief around the time of Jesus, called "apocalyptic" thought, thought that the world was ruled by wickedness and that God would soon send someone to sweep all of it away and establish a new kingdom of righteousness or whatnot. At the time, they believed the one who would bring this change was the "Son of Man" as foretold in Daniel. ... Jews who did believe in the coming of the Son of Man thought that this would be an impressive, divine figure of untold greatness, knowledge, and power.
An impressive divine figure ... who should perhaps even be worshipped?
Well, Caiaphas didn't see that, or didn't want to see that. However, it was soon upcoming at Resurrection, and will be upcoming in even more public display when He arrives at the battle of Armageddon and as judge in the Valley of Josaphat. The second quote is from someone calling Jesus "a bum" ... not sure about the exact connotation, dynastically Jesus would have had the qualifications and miracles He had worked. A week before, Caiaphas was worried because a crowd had shouted Hosanna, and within that week, Jesus was no more devoid of authority, no more unimpressive than to be able to make a second cleansing of the temple. I think that Jew was retroprojecting his own prejudices about Jesus, rather than dealing with what Caiaphas was facing.
Or what a more recent Jewish photographer faced, when examining a Shroud.
Barrie Schwortz’s FINAL INTERVIEW: Shroud of Turin SECRETS REVEALED
Adrian Milag TV | 6 April 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFyQVlSSo04
Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
V L. D. after Pentecost
28.VI.2026
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