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APOLOGETICS SESSION 17
Jesus is God

Discussion Questions
  1. What stands out to you from this video?
  2. Take a look at the following verses and then discuss: which of these passages stands out to you most? Explain.​
Is Jesus God?
  1. The New Testament authors clearly taught that Jesus is God.
    1. ​John 1:1,14; Romans 9:5; Colossians 2:9; 2 Peter 1:1; Matthew 1:23; Hebrews 1:3; Matthew 8:29; Luke 4:34
  2. Jesus clearly taught that He is God (directly and indirectly).
    1. ​Directly: Mark 14:61-64; John 8:56-59
    2. Indirectly: (too numerous to list)
  3. Jesus' actions confirm His deity.
    1. ​He forgives sins, heals the sick, raises the dead, casts out demons, gives the blind sight, allows and encourages others to worship him, teaches with authority, and more.
Among these Jews there suddenly turns up a man who goes about talking as if He was God. He claims to forgive sins. He says He has always existed. He says He is coming to judge the world at the end of time. Now let us get this clear. Among Pantheists, like the Indians, anyone might say that he was a part of God, or one with God: there would be nothing very odd about it. But this man, since He was a Jew, could not mean that kind of God. God, in their language, meant the Being outside of the world Who had made it and was infinitely different from anything else. And when you have grasped that, you will see that what this man said was, quite simply, the most shocking thing that has ever been uttered by human lips."
​-C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
Discussion Questions
  1. If someone told you that Jesus never claimed to be God, what would you say?​
Discussion Questions
  1. What evidence does he give that Jesus did indeed claim to be the divine, special Son of God?
Discussion Questions
  1. What of the evidence given by Sean McDowell stands out to you?​
Discussion Questions
  1. What convincing evidence does Wallace give in this video for Jesus' claim to be divine?​
Discussion Questions
  1. "Jesus tended not to come right out and say he was God." Why would this be?
  2. "What he tended to do was display acts and make declarations that implied divine authority." Why would this be true?
  3. What would you say is the main point of this video?
  4. Anything else stand out to you from this video?
"I am trying to prevent anyone saying the really foolish things that people often say about Him: 'I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God.' That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. he would rather be a lunatic - on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg - or else he would be the Devil of Hell. you must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. you can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. he did not intend to."
-C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
Closing Questions​
  1. What stood out to you most from this session/discussion?
  2. Closing thoughts/comments?