JESUS' CLAIM TO DIVINITY PART 2

This lesson advances a cumulative apologetic case that Jesus’ divinity is woven not only into explicit declarations but also into His parables, authority, actions, and self-understanding within a rigorously monotheistic Jewish context. By examining His parabolic self-identification as God’s unique Son, His authority over the Law and Sabbath, His prerogatives in judgment and salvation, and the repeated accusations of blasphemy from His contemporaries, the program shows that Jesus consistently spoke and acted in ways that only made sense if He understood Himself to share in God’s identity. These reactions are historically significant, demonstrating that His audience did not hear metaphor or exaggeration, but claims to divine status.

Moving beyond the Gospels, the lesson demonstrates that the earliest Christian writings, church fathers, and Second Temple Jewish frameworks unanimously reinforce this conclusion. Pauline hymns, Johannine theology, Hebrews, Revelation, and early patristic testimony affirm Jesus as fully divine, applying Yahweh’s titles, works, and worship to Him without hesitation. By critically engaging Jewish, Muslim, and secular objections, the broadcast argues that high Christology emerged too early, too uniformly, and within too strict a monotheistic environment to be a later invention. The apologetic force is clear: the New Testament presents Jesus as God incarnate by design, not distortion, compelling every listener to confront the identity He claimed for Himself.