Was he infinite in mercy?
“He that believeth not shall be damned” ([Mark xvi, 16]).
“Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire” ([Matthew xxv, 41]).
“Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not: Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida!... It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of Judgment, than for you. And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell” ([Matthew xi, 20–23]).
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His resurrection is adduced as the chief argument in proof of his divinity. Did he raise himself from the dead?
Peter: He did not. God raised him. “Jesus Christ of Nazareth, ... whom God raised from the dead” ([Acts iv, 10]).
If Christ, then, did not rise from the dead by his own volition, was his resurrection any proof of his divinity? No more than the resurrection of Lazarus was proof of Lazarus’s divinity.