Resurrection As True Or False Logic
Note that Jesus was executed, not for calling himself God, but as accused, for calling himself "King of the Jews." To make this very clear, the Roman placque describing Jesus' crime said "King of the Jews," and not mockingly, "Son of God," or "Messiah." It was the first Jesus followers led by Peter and brother James who blasphemously called Jesus "the Son of God." They were calling Jesus God. The Messiah as the Son of God had come as Jesus, they said. He was resurrected from the dead because he was God's son and not because he was a mortal man to whom a miracle had happened.
Note that Lazarus is reported raised from the dead by Jesus but Lazarus never became the Son of God because of this. Thus we find a fundamental contradiction in the Christian thinking of the time that still goes on today.
If the proof that Jesus was really the son of God is that he resurrected from the dead, then is not Lazarus another Messiah, another Son of God? Who performed the miracle of raising Jesus from the dead? Did God raise his only son from the dead? Or did Jesus self-raise himself from the dead because he already had the power to raise the dead?
Note that this argumentation shoots a hole in the theory that Jesus was fully human until the crucifixion and then assumed his Son of God mantle. If Jesus had really raised Lazarus from the dead, did he not have already the power of performing miracles and therefore could have prevented the suffering of the cross or risen up off the cross?
Would it not have been a real plus to demonstrate to all the people the power of God he had to raise himself up off the cross in broad daylight? Does it not seem strange that Jesus chose the middle of the night to disappear from the tomb as the resurrected Christ?
Yes, it does! Christianity defies logic, though many have tried to use logic to defend Christianity, while others have used the illogic of Christianity to be a test of their faith. Just believe, don't think, and everything will be all right! say these faith Christians.
