[narses]

Some early churches had no pews. Standing was (and in some places still is) seen as a sign of respect. When an officer enters the room, enlisted men stand, for example.

[saradippity]

The continuing and ever present desire to take the divinity away from Jesus Christ and make him "just a man",like you and I,or maybe a judge or an officer,to whom we owe respect.

I at times,am amused by the modernists who look at the "evolution" and maturing of man,for example,but insist that for "authenticity" we must stifle the organic development of anything and revert to 50A.D.,or 300A.D.,or wherever they choose to stop the clock.

I prefer to kneel,as did Christ,when He prayed to the Father,or I think of the phrase,from scripture,"and every knee shall bend".