Christology, understood as the study of Christ's identity and work, divides into two opposing views: low Christology, which reduces Jesus to a mere human being who was later elevated to divine status by His followers, and high Christology, which recognizes Him as the preexistent Word of God, the God of the Old Testament, fully divine while also fully human during His earthly life, and eternally divine now and forever at the Father's right hand. Low Christologists point to passages showing Jesus hungry, tired, growing in wisdom, or limited in knowledge to argue He was only human, but these examples are cherry-picked and do not negate His humanity coexisting with His divinity—He was both truly God and truly man, not one to the exclusion of the other. Scripture overwhelmingly presents high Christology, from Messianic Psalms and prophecies through the Gospels, where Jesus is conceived by the Holy Spirit, calms storms as Creator, confirms before the Sanhedrin that He is the Son of God, and declares "before Abraham was, I AM"—identifying Himself as the eternal God of Abraham. Though later church councils like Chalcedon produced convoluted creeds to define His dual nature, the simplest explanation comes from John: the Word became flesh, God reducing Himself to human form while retaining as much of God's nature as a human body could hold. This high Christology forms the foundation of Paul's letter to the Colossians, written to combat Gnostic, philosophical, and syncretistic influences threatening that congregation. Paul presents Christ as the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation—meaning preeminent in rank, not first created—through whom and for whom all things, visible and invisible, were made. Christ sustains all creation, holding it together, and is the head of the church, reconciling all things to Himself through His blood, delivering believers from darkness into His kingdom. Yet Paul does not present this exalted Christology in isolation; he surrounds it with practical demands—being filled with knowledge of Christ's will, walking worthy of the Lord, bearing fruit, and enduring with strength from God. This pairing carries a crucial warning: high Christology alone, without corresponding obedience and works, produces insipid Christianity, exemplified by those in Matthew 7 who honored Christ's name yet practiced lawlessness, and reflected historically in the Laodicean church's decline despite receiving Paul's teaching. Because all fullness of divine nature dwells in Christ, believers are complete in Him and need nothing else—no philosophy, tradition, or angelic mediation—but this completeness demands a response: a life lived worthy of the One who is preeminent in all things.