If bowing is worship, do you bow in your worship service?
Once again my blog is providing me an outlet to ask those questions that leap unbidden to my mind but might cause too much trouble if I asked them on the Protestant homeschooling forum I spend so much time on. As I indicated in an earlier post it's been quite the week (or more) on that board. My Catholic sisters and I have spent a considerable amount of time defending Catholic practices and Marian doctrines and the area where the two intersect. My Catholic sisters and I have been told repeatedly that bowing is worship. When we point out that in Sacred Scripture that bowing does not always equal worship, we are told that well it might not always be worship but that they will never bow except in worship to the One True God.
So I'm led to this question. If they (these Protestants who have told me that) never bow except in worship to the One True God; then, where is it that they do that in their worship services? I have been to hundreds and hundreds of Protesant worship services. Not. One. Time. Have I ever bowed in adoration, in humility, in respect, or anything else....much less worship.
Perhaps those who do not bow at all should stop telling those of us who do what it means.
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If you are going to debate such things, you must put the differences in belief of what constitutes worship itself front and center first.
Barb
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