Jesus accepted worship

In the world today, there are a number of religions that reject the deity of Christ. Some of them don't claim to be even remotely affiliated with Christianity, so that's "fine". They're still wrong, of course, but it's at least consistent to reject Jesus' own claims to be God if you reject Jesus full stop. If you are a follower of such a religion, my advice to you is obviously to leave it. Jesus is God, and He is the only way to Heaven. Nevertheless, this particular article likely won't convince you to do that.

For those of you who do claim to be Christians (or for Muslims, since your Qur'an does affirm the Bible, and your apologists often appeal to the Bible in their arguments against Christians), yet still reject the deity of Christ, I have a question. If Christ is sinless, yet is not God, why did He accept worship?

In the scriptures, there are examples of God's servants receiving worship from men. In Revelation 22:9, we see an angel's response to John's attempt to worship him: "See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God." Now, an angel is a rather glorious being. So glorious that although John should definitely have known better, he actually bowed to it. But opponents of Christ's divinity do not even believe Jesus is so glorious. He's just a man. So, what typically happens when a human servant of God receives worship? In Acts 14, we see an example. Paul healed a cripple (v8-10), and those who saw it thought he was Hermes in human form, and Barnabus was Zeus (v11-13). The response from Paul and Barnabus was one of extreme emotion. They tore their clothes, and ran into the crowds shouting "Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein: Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways. Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness." (v14-17).

We see, then, that true servants of God, both man and angel, refuse worship. Why, then, would the sole exception be a Man who knew no sin? The only possible solution to this conundrum is that Jesus accepted worship that only legitimately belongs to God because He is God.