premise: Allowing that the gospels contain " stories which we may reasonably suspect of being metaphysical fables " , Swinburne insists that they are " a basically reliable source of information about the life of Jesus " . Of course , Jesus did not go about saying , " I am God " , yet " the historical evidence of the actions as well as the words of Jesus are such as we would expect if Jesus did teach that he was divine " . Thus , Jesus was not revealed to be divine only at the Resurrection , or in the Easter experience of the disciples , as some theologians would maintain . Why did Jesus not go about saying , " I am God " ?
hypothesis: Because he did n't believe he was God .