Is Lazarus risen from the dead a sign of divinity?

Answer 1

Of course it is a sign of divinity (on Gods part of course). How many people do you know that can rais others from the dead? It's just another way that Jesus showed his godliness (divinity) on earth.

If you mean was Lazarus divine then no because he didn't do the work and also he had to then die at a later stage. The raising was as a sign of Christ's power and authority over death. If Lazarus was not divine because somebody else' (Jesus) raised him from the death, Then it follows that Jesus is also not divine, because somebody else' (God) raised him from death; Acts 2:32 This Jesus hath God raised up.... Acts 4:10 Jesus Christ ... whom God raised from the dead.... Acts 13:30 But God raised him from the dead. Galatians 1:1 Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;) Colossians 2:12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. 1 Thessalonians 1:10 ... his Son ... whom he raised from the dead.


Revelation 1 vv 8, 17 - 18
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, says the Lord which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty...Fear not I am the first and the last...I am he that lives and was dead and, behold, I am alive for evermore.

These verses establish the unity of God (the Almighty) with the risen Lord ( Jesus) which is at the heart of understanding Jesus' divinity and how he could both raise Lazarus and be himself raised. It gets back to the Trinity concept once again.

Answer 2

It could be a sign of Jesus' divinity if the account in John's Gospel is reliable. The two factors weigh against its reliability are: none of the earlier gospel authors seems to have even known of this most momentous miracle; there are many parallels between John's account of raising Lazarus from the dead and Luke's account of a parable in which Lazarus was hypothetically raised from the dead. The two gospels are the only New Testament gospels that even mention Lazarus and the sisters Mary and Martha.

Even in the absence of the Lazarus miracle, it is still possible for Jesus to be divine, but the miracle should not be relied on as proof of his divinity.