Originally Posted by kerry

The argument that a lot of fundamentalist use is that if Jesus rose from the dead after predicting he would, then he must be the Son of God as he said he was.
I think there are lots of problems with that. First of all, it is impossible in my view to get credible evidence that Jesus actually said those things, given the nature of the NT documents. But even if a person grants that he did, it doesn't prove the theological fact that fundamentalists think it proves. Just because Jesus said he was the Son of God, predicted he would rise from the dead, and did, doesn't provide any evidence for his theological credibility because the logic simply assumes there is a God to start with and supposes the idea that God has reproduced and has a male offspring makes sense.