Bacom cites this, but it's not his.

He got it from somebody else.

And the statement is this, and it's incredible.

It is probably one of the most show-stopping quotations that anybody could make about the New Testament.

Here's the sentence.

The earliest Christology is the highest Christology.

The earliest Christology is the highest Christology. The earliest Christology is the highest Christology. And you want to say,

oh, no way, no way. Have you read John? Have you read the Johannine prologue of the first 18 verses where Jesus called God twice? I don't think so. That's the highest one. Well, Oscar Coleman and others say,

yeah, calling Jesus God probably is not the highest claim in the New Testament for deity,

calling him Lord is. And Lord, Coleman argued, is the main one, because the translation of the Greek is when you go back and look at the

text that they cite in the Old Testament, it's Jehovah. So Jehovah and the Old Testament, the

holiest name for God, is translated Lord in the New Testament.

Hey friends, welcome to the Elisa Childers podcast where we equip Christians to identify the claims of historic Christianity, discern its counterfeits, and proclaim the gospel with clarity, kindness, and truth. I am so excited to bring you today's episode about early creeds of Christianity. So you might be thinking, what relevance does this have to my life as a Christian? Well, maybe you've heard a

skeptic say, hey, you know, the earliest Christians didn't even have a Bible. Therefore, we can't

possibly know what they all agreed about regarding what it meant to follow

Jesus or what it meant to be a Christian.

You might have heard people say, well, maybe the Bible, the New Testament in particular,

was just written by the theological winners of certain theological debates and therefore

silencing the opposition with what was essentially canonized

in the New Testament.

So these are tough things to address, especially when we realized that the New Testament books

weren't written right away.

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