Objection · Case 04 · The Trinity
Many scholars consider Colossians deutero-Pauline.
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Response
About half of critical scholars do. The point does not depend on authorship: a first-century Christian writer, very likely within Paul’s circle, attributed creation and sustaining to Jesus. If anything, disputed authorship widens the circle of early Christians who held this view rather than confining it to Paul alone.
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This objection is to Created through him and held together in him, Colossians 1:16-17.
Paul writes that all things were created through Jesus and for him, and that “in him all things hold together.” This is present-tense sustaining, not just past-tense making.