The above scriptures are sometimes presented as proof of the trinity, evidently assuming the two persons of the alleged trinue God are being worshipped by the elders.
However, it is not specifically stated who the elders worshipped. It could be that they worshipped the God of Jesus, as in Revelation 7;11. In other words, they could have fallen down to worship "Him who sits on the throne", which is the only true God, the God of Jesus, as we have shown in our study: God, Who Was, Is and Is to Come.
However, even if the elders did fall down and give worship to Jesus, it does not mean that we need to imagine and assume that they were worshiping the Lamb as being God Almighty. Some trinitarians have claimed that the worship is given equally to God and the Lamb, and that this thus means that the Lamb is presented as being a person of God, etc. Again, such is not stated, and even if the Lamb is included in being worshiped, this would not mean that anyone was giving worship to Jesus as being God Almighty any more than when the people worshiped Jehovah and the king as recorded in 1 Chronicles 29:20 means that the king was being worshiped as being Jehovah, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Any thought that there is anything in Revelation 5:13,14 about a triune God has to be imagined and assumed beyond what is stated, added to what is stated, and read into what is stated. Indeed, it would call for many assumptions that would have to also be imagined beyond what is written and those assumptions would be to be added to and read into what is stated.
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