Did Jesus Really Say He Was God?, Mikel Del Rosario
Did Jesus Really Say He Was God?, Mikel Del Rosario
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Did Jesus Really Say He Was God?
Making Sense of His Historical Claims

Author: Mikel Del Rosario, Darrell L. Bock

Narrator: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Unabridged: 8 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/18/2025

Synopsis

Do you ever wonder if Jesus really claimed to be God? Maybe you've heard people say, "Jesus never said he was God," or you've been asked, "Why believe Jesus is divine if he never claimed it?" These challenges aren't just from non-Christians―they show up in church, too. Even if you're not coming from a place of skepticism, you might still question how well church teachings about Jesus match up with what he actually said. So, did the historical Jesus really claim to be divine?This book is here to give you confidence in the historicity of Jesus' claim to divinity. It's designed to help you explain your faith in a world that increasingly doubts the Bible's portrayal of Jesus. Instead of focusing on what Jesus' followers believed, this book takes a different approach―it looks at what Jesus' enemies thought. How did they interpret his words and actions? Their perspective can help you understand the historical validity of Jesus' divine claim.In this book, biblical scholar Mikel Del Rosario uses historiography to examine claims about Jesus' divinity; analyzes ancient Greco-Roman, Jewish, and biblical sources to understand how Jesus' words and actions were interpreted by his adversaries and followers; and argues that Jesus claimed divine authority, a claim supported by strong historical evidence.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Joshua on November 30, 2025

This book takes you on a fast-paced, investigative journey into the historical Jesus of Capernaum. From the Gospels to Jewish texts, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Antiquities, the author shows that Jesus’ claims—especially the forgiveness of sins—were bold, shocking, and what he calls “bedrock facts.” On......more

Goodreads review by Jason on April 12, 2026

Did Jesus Really Say He Was God? se sitúa en el debate clásico sobre la autoconciencia de Jesús y la legitimidad de las afirmaciones cristológicas del Nuevo Testamento. Del Rosario no intenta demostrar una declaración explícita del tipo “Yo soy Dios”, sino reconstruir, de manera acumulativa, cómo lo......more

Goodreads review by Mer on October 27, 2025

This timely work by Dr. Mikel Del Rosario provides a hard-hitting response to the assertion that Jesus’s self-claims of divinity (to be God the Son incarnate) were invented later in John’s gospel by the early church. Dr. Mikel Del Rosario provides historical research within the book of Mark (thought......more

Goodreads review by Meridith on October 27, 2025

This timely work by Dr. Mikel Del Rosario offers a compelling response to the assertion that Jesus’s self-claims of divinity (to be God the Son incarnate) were invented later in John’s Gospel by the early church. Dr. Mikel Del Rosario provides historical research within the book of Mark (thought to b......more

Goodreads review by Joel on January 27, 2026

Generally, this isn't exactly my style of apologetics, though I think Rosario does a commendable job interacting with skeptical historians. I actually really liked the opening chapters on historical method (I think those are the strongest part of the book), but I didn't have a strong reaction to the......more

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