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DEBATE: Did Jesus Claim to be God? – David Wood vs Alex O’Connor

Alex O'Connor | October 2, 2025



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– VIDEO NOTES

David Wood is a Christian apologist at @apologeticsroadshow. This debate was hosted at the Bless God Summit in San Diego, California, on the 28th of March 2025. It was hosted by @RuslanKD. The question was, “Did Jesus Claim to be God?”

– TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Introductions
2:22 David’s Opening Statement
24:00 Alex’s Opening Statement
44:48 David’s First Rebuttal
57:33 Alex’s First Rebuttal
1:10:40 David’s Second Rebuttal
1:17:20 Alex’s Second Rebuttal
1:23:54 Open Discussion
1:55:56 David’s Closing Statement
2:00:34 Alex’s Closing Statement
2:04:45 QnA

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This post currently has 33 comments.

  4. @risleem

    October 2, 2025 at 6:18 am

    Clearly, this young chap is way more knowledgeable on timelines and proper interpretation of the scriptures than this run-of-the-mill preacher dude!

  7. @noodleplexium5953

    October 2, 2025 at 6:18 am

    21:50 Satan asks Jesus to worship him. You claim that in the phrase ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve him only.’” and the word "only" ONLY applies to "serve him" and not "Worship". You claim this because many would be guilty of sin of worshipping others since the word for worship is used in a different sense elsewhere. If I grant this to you, then I would have to be consistent and say that nor should anyone serve anyone apart from God because Jesus said "serve him only". By your logic, many have sinned by serving people other than God which would be ridiculous to say. Furthermore what need would Jesus have to say "Worship" in "Worship the Lord your God and serve him only" If he was not rebuking Satan for his request that Jesus worship him. Satan did not after all ask Jesus to serve him but to "bow down and worship" him. There is no meaning in Jesus's response if he was not rebuking Satan for his request to be worshipped.

  8. @heriwandraputra1553

    October 2, 2025 at 6:18 am

    If he were God, surely the ones who would know best would be his closest relatives, especially his mother, and his earliest disciples.

    By the way, do you know why Christianity is so popular with the majority? It's because Christianity is a religion highly favored by those who are lazy in worship (or, 'do not like strict religious obligations'). Look at Islam and Judaism; they are full of rules and share many similarities.

  14. @komlat253

    October 2, 2025 at 6:18 am

    the question if jesus is god or not is not the most interesting one to me and i dont think it changes too much. i mean the book of mark shoes jesus as a man but john ,as the son. the idea that jesus is in a unique place with god and messiah rather than god isnt new ,but rather jeues does what many people in that time would understand . which is where the lord puts his name ,it has full authority as god or is a uniquely holy place. its actually all over the OT that its about god placing his name and therefore has full representative authority . although it doesnt say it about samual ,it does say literally that everything samual said ,the lord didnt let fall to the ground. its about the idea that one is so aligned with gods will that the difference in persons doesn't matter or isnt there . this is why i dont think it matters too much and doesn't change much. jesus is the representation or expressed image of god , so it doesnt matter how u understand the flesh of jesus or not because in the end just like with the prophets in the OT , (the god in your mouth ) is the only way the average person understood and knew god. obviously john says no one has ever seen god. i do believe the Two powers of heaven still is probably the way the Hebrew understood it ,but this doesn't contradict the man of Jesus and his place in the heavens. because
    obviously the roll and position of the messiah is completely biblical as the messiah of god is at the right hand and the king of God's isreal..

    and lastly i literally remember looking up the word worship in the Hebrew ,and it doesn't matter as the word for worship in the OT is used both with god and literally everyone else and its used with everything more than god. there is no other word used there. we do have to remember that alot of our English words hold religious context where it didn't in hebrew.the same way we say(lord) and make it seem like its YWAH but its adoni which is actually lord,master or owner and not the divin name. lord, meaning (king) . ofcourse there is overlap here but in english most readers may only see just (god)

  15. @thelibraryofalexandria8191

    October 2, 2025 at 6:18 am

    I love how evangelical christians love to bash Islam and muslims for the lack of Christian presence and religiousity… bro are you aware of the enlightenment, protestant movement, renaissance, and modernism… dont blame muslims for your own (good) choice of secularism… also dont forget muslims translated the very greek, persian, and egyptian texts that brought about the renaissance so give us a break

  16. @OathKeeper1506

    October 2, 2025 at 6:18 am

    Atheists are the biggest of all fools simply believing this relatively new dogma even when Darwin debunks himself regarding his quote about the eye. To say there is no God as we stand on this Earth looking up the incredibly inexplicable beauties of the universe is like a fish in a bowl on a hutch in a house saying there's no such thing as man. smh It's all so self evident as Romans 1:20 proves.

  17. @SuperCuteBabyCat

    October 2, 2025 at 6:18 am

    If the Lord Jesus did not make Himself pray and worship Himself then He made His human body sin because of the ten commandments of God number 1, remember the law was made for humans to carry out and His fleshly body was indeed human flesh, And regarding the question of whether Jesus the man is God or not, of course He is God and the Messiah, why must Jesus be God because the sacrifice on the cross would not be legally valid and honorable if the one on the cross was not God, why must the one on the cross be God? because the one who created angels, humans, Lucifer, and the earth is God, not His tools, namely the angels / His tools, so it is not the angel's obligation to redeem legally and honorably, so Jesus must be God himself who is in a human body and it is impossible for an angel, God saved His chosen human from His own punishment and wrath, to fight Satan directly in His flesh without sin and to silence the taunts and accusations of Satan and his followers forever, so that Satan perishes forever in his humiliation and evil, so God cannot deny Himself and He feels that He must prove Himself to Himself and to all His creations that He is worthy and honorable to judge and destroy and save, He who gave the law to humans to obey He is also the one who is able to carry it out perfectly!, so that Satan and his followers are silenced and perish in a state of humiliation, and all the evil taunts directed at Him are slapped down to the world of the dead

  18. @davidmanning1724

    October 2, 2025 at 6:18 am

    By the advertisers you. You know the slimy feline agenda .. sorry your TOO LATE 2 . 4 Billion CHRISTAINS WHO receive Jesus as redeemer savior brubgsr of justice . Son of God 1 . 9 B MOSLEMS who revere JESUS AS prophet and who was bodily received into heaven

    WHOSE LEFT ? JESUS HATER. GADDLYS AND Atheist

  22. @MrAhmedelhadidy

    October 2, 2025 at 6:18 am

    Allah show us this seen that will happen in judgement day through the qouran

    5-116
    When God says, ‘Jesus, son of Mary, did you say to people, “Take me and my mother as two gods alongside God”?’ he will say, ‘May You be exalted! I would never say what I had no right to say- if I had said such a thing You would have known it: You know all that is within me, though I do not know what is within You, You alone have full knowledge of things unseen-

    5-117
    I told them only what You commanded me to: “Worship God, my Lord and your Lord.” I was a witness over them during my time among them. Ever since You took my soul, You alone have been the watcher over them: You are witness to all things

    5-118
    and if You punish them, they are Your servants; if You forgive them, You are the Almighty, the Wise.’

    5-119
    God will say, ‘This is a Day when the truthful will benefit from their truthfulness. They will have Gardens graced with flowing streams, there to remain for ever. God is pleased with them and they with Him: that is the supreme triumph.’

    5-120
    Control of the heavens and earth and everything in them belongs to God: He has power over all things.

  24. @ahmedfox5935

    October 2, 2025 at 6:18 am

    "Are you missing Jesus in the UK?" a question this hoax tried to make a point by turned out to be the only explanation why he is having all these nightmares about Islam to the level he commence by attacking on Islam when the debate is against an atheist! Yet, one more point to make here, Islam doesn't deny Jesus at all, to the contrary, Islam praises him, so when someone becomes a Muslim they get the whole package.

  31. @tongakhan230

    October 2, 2025 at 6:18 am

    If Jesus was God, surely, either he or his disciples would have preached about it. We find ZERO evidence for such a idea.
    Christians believe:

    Romans 10:9 For if you publicly declare with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and exercise faith in your heart that GOD RAISED HIM UP FROM THE DEAD, you will be saved.

    Jesus, the MAN, died (got killed).
    God who CANNOT die, brings the dead Jesus back to life.
    No rocket science needed to know that Jesus cannot be God.
    What Trinitarians believe is their business, though.

  33. @Rashid-v2y

    October 2, 2025 at 6:18 am

    David wood is trying to defend his perspective through very weak and his misunderstood materials to prove his position unfortunately failing to do so. On the other hand Alex is doing wonderful job but missing a bit of and vital information unable to explain briefly verses he quoted but overall Alex is doing a very good job keep it up. Alex i am from Pakistan if you need my help and ready and willing to share what you are lacking. For example Exodus 3, John 10. thank you

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