[CS-FSLUG] Puzzles in the Life of Christ

[Tim Young]

I am not really sure where the deity stopped and the humanity started.

In relating to His foreknowledge...
One of the stories I really like about Jesus was the woman at the 
well.  In His initial sentence to her, He lays out His entire 
strategy: "/If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you 
for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you 
living water/"

Then, as she starts back-pedaling, and trying to change the topic, He 
proceeds to give her each piece of information.  First He states what 
is the gift of God, followed by who it was that was asking for a 
drink.  And her response is exactly as He predicted.

In that particular case, I think He was exhibiting some foreknowledge 
or at least Divine direction.

Sometimes when the various authors state, "knowing their hearts, He 
responded...", those could simply be a response to wisdom; observing 
the people and knowing why they were asking what they were asking. 
But, at the same time, there was certainly a heavy dose of Deity that 
infused Him.  I have no doubt that He felt human emotions, dealt with 
human limitations (eating, needing to sleep, etc), and I know He had 
a human brain.  But, somewhere in that, He was also fully God.

Anyway.  All that to say... Umm.  Sure.

     - Tim

On 10/15/2012 11:13 AM, davidm at hisfeet.net wrote:
> Do you really think that *as a man* Jesus knew all those things in advance?
> Of course He was/is God, but as a man upon the earth (and as a child upon
> the earth) it seems clear to me that His divine knowledge was not always
> available to his human mind."...yet learned He obedience...." for
> instance. And He "grew in wisdom and stature and in favor with God and
> man.
>
> It seems to mew that He was limited (or limited himself) to the same
> resources that we have: (namely scripture, and the guidance of the Holy
> Spirit) when it comes to understanding the workings and will of God.
> Dave
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