The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast · J. Warner Wallace

Is Jesus REALLY God? The 3 Chapters That Settle It

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Cold Case detective and Christian apologist J. Warner Wallace applies investigative methodology to the question of Jesus's deity, examining three New Testament chapter ones — John 1, Colossians 1, and Hebrews 1 — as if they were the only surviving manuscript fragments of early Christianity. He unpacks the Logos prologue, Paul's Colossians hymn (including the Greek meaning of prototokos as a rank title rather than a sequence of creation), and the Hebrews 1 catena of Old Testament quotes that address Jesus directly as God. Wallace argues that each author independently places Jesus in the 'creator' category rather than the 'created' category, and that the cumulative case from multiple sources converges on deity — framed around his personal project of writing commentary Bibles for each grandchild.

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A scripture-led apologetics case for Jesus' deity, built by revisiting the same claim from several angles.

Jay Warner Wallace makes his case for Jesus' deity by moving through Colossians 1 and the logic of the incarnation. He slows down on what fullness means, then draws the passage to a plain conclusion: the one who reconciles all things is the one who created all things, so the…

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