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The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast

Is Jesus REALLY God? The 3 Chapters That Settle It

The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast

ColdCaseChristianity.com

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Cold-Case Christianity Podcast, J. Warner Wallace tackles one of the most important questions in the Christian faith: Is Jesus truly God, or just a created agent of God? Limiting the "evidence" to three key passages—John 1, Colossians 1, and Hebrews 1—he works through the text like an investigative case file, showing how each "chapter one" presents Jesus as Creator, sustainer, redeemer, and the visible image of the invisible God. Along the way, he explains terms like "firstborn of all creation" and "the exact imprint of His nature," clarifying why the earliest Christians worshiped Jesus and why Christianity collapses if He is anything less than God incarnate.

If you've heard that Paul invented a different Jesus, that the Gospels don't teach His deity, or that early Christians didn't worship Him as God, this episode will help you rethink those claims and better explain Jesus' identity to the people you love.

If you find this conversation helpful, please subscribe, leave a review, and share the podcast with a friend—it really helps more people discover the case for Christianity.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Cold Case Christianity podcast, where a veteran Cold Case homicide detective investigates the truth of the Christian worldview.

0:08.5

Jay Warner Wallace is a Dateline featured detective, Christian apologist, and bestselling author.

0:13.3

This weekly show applies real investigative tools to the claims of Christianity.

0:19.0

Welcome back to the Cold Case Christianity podcast. I'm Jay Warner Wallace.

0:22.9

Okay, so a couple of podcasts ago, we were talking about making a case for the deity of Jesus.

0:29.2

And as you kind of see here, you're going to have to, to order to kind of connect the dots

0:33.8

sometimes on some of my podcast. Now you're going to have to go back and forth a couple of podcasts to hear where we left off someplace else because i probably won't continue in a

0:41.6

linear way it's it's almost like whatever i what am i animated about this week what what discussion

0:46.4

did i have with somebody that animated me to to spend an hour talking about the the overall case

0:52.4

you know i constantly am making cases in my own mind about like, how

0:57.4

would I defend this or why do I believe this position theologically? And that started for me

1:02.2

way back when I was a new Christian and I was attending seminary and getting a degree in theology

1:07.5

and just fascinated by how we connect these evidential dots.

1:11.6

So I'm always got a stack of things in a folder that I can talk about.

1:15.6

But often what triggers it is that I have a discussion with somebody.

1:18.4

And this is one of those, the deity of Jesus, that I find is interesting that so many people

1:23.7

are animated about this one.

1:26.5

They all say, I'm a Christian, they'll say,

1:29.4

but I think you're wrong about the deity of Jesus. And that usually leads to the issues of the

1:33.7

triune nature of God, which we'll get to in another podcast. But, you know, as I'm doing my

1:38.7

Bibles, and this is another thing that animated me to do this this week, prompted me to do it this

1:44.0

week, is that I to do it this week,

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